Anyone Still Looking For Their First Eagle?

[dfreuter415]

I'm guessing that most of the golfers on The Sand Trap have an eagle or two or more, but here is my question: Is anyone still looking for their first eagle?

If so, would you be willing to share some of your stories of frustration?

[meenman]

Still looking for my first. Been playing for just over 7 years. Hady closest chance about a month ago when a 130 yard approach was left 2 inches from the hole. Have played the last 6 years from tees that were too long, but with me getting my group to move up, more GIRs will give me a chance at joining the eagle club.

[14ledo81]

I have one, and it was very lucky. It came on a downhill, downwind, par 5. After a solid (for me) drive and 3 wood, I was short and right in a greenside bunker. Somehow I holed the bunker shot. I have reached a par 5 in two only one time (wind assisted). Missed the long putt on that one though.

[Ernest Jones]

Zero for me. I've witnesses quite a few, but none have really been impressive, they've all been more of the WTF, pure flukey luck variety. Closest I've come is holing out from a bunker to an elevated green. Probably about 30-35 yards, couldn't see the pin from the bunker, looked all along the back fringe of the green thinking I had overshot but then my sister said, "hey, here it is in the hole!" Unfortunately I was 2 over on the hole before I even stepped into the bunker, still felt pretty good though.

[boogielicious]

March 2010.  I haven't been on a green in two on a par 5 since then.

[David in FL]

I'd guess that more golfers here have never had one than have. I think the poll needs to include "zero"....! I haven't had one in 3 years. I'm not a long hitter....but I'm longer than the average golfer. Only 6 or 7 total.......over 45 years of playing a lot of golf.

[No Mulligans]

Tee'd off on 16th at Torrey Pines North, pulled it OB.  Next tee'd off again to middle of the fairway about 120 yards out.  Next shot, 9 iron lands on the green, bounced once and slow rolled into the hole... For a par.  The eagle that wasn't.

I've never had an eagle.  Maybe today.

[bkuehn1952]

I'd guess that more golfers here have never had one than have. I think the poll needs to include "zero"....!  I haven't had one in 3 years.

Very much like me.  It is easy for me to remember the last putt at eagle, which I missed - 3rd hole on the New Course, St. Andrews.  Last made eagle was in 2011 on a short par 5.

[Patch]

I probably have had more than my fair share.  More than 10, but less than 13 I would suppose. I don't really know the exact number. I do remember my first one on a 565 yard  par 5. I pitched that one in from 30+/- yards. I also remember a par 4 eagle using my driver and 3W.on a 460 yard hole. Most have been lucky shots since (just guessing) I have putted less than half of my total eagles for eagles. Most have been chips, and pitches. Ironically I got my first hole in one before I got my first eagle.

[iacas]

I remade the poll with better options. About ten people had voted already. Please vote again.

0 is now an option, and there is no overlap in the choices now. :)

[Jmdmbike]

Still searching. Have had a few close calls on a  short par 3 on a course I play quite a bit and once on a short par 5 that I was on in 2. That in itself was a minor miracle, never repeated, then I missed a makeable putt Maybe next year........

[Shindig]

Still searching. Only been on a par-5 in two once; missed the putt by a foot. Next time I went to that course, they moved the tees up and called it a par-4. Must be because I was capable of reaching it in two, rendering it not a par 5. Had a few GIRs within a foot or two, but I don't know how close they were.

[turtleback]

I have had 3 and ironically none of them have been of the more traditional "on in 2 and make the putt on a par 5" variety.

My first one was a bladed 8 iron second shot on a par 4 that bounced, hit the pin, and dropped in.

The second was when on a very very short par 4 I drove to the fringe and made the putt.

The third was a hole-out of the third shot from about 100 yards on a par 5.  I was playing by myself and it was a bit of a blind shot so I ended up searching around a little before I found the ball in the hole.

[David in FL]

I probably have had more than my fair share.  More than 10, but less than 13 I would suppose. I don't really know the exact number. I do remember my first one on a 565 yard  par 5. I pitched that one in from 30+/- yards. I also remember a par 4 eagle using my driver and 3W.on a 460 yard hole. Most have been lucky shots since (just guessing) I have putted less than half of my total eagles for eagles. Most have been chips, and pitches. Ironically I got my first hole in one before I got my first eagle.

No you didn't...... ;-)

[Ernest Jones]

No you didn't......

Ha ha, good golfer, terrible mathematician.

[mailman]

I've been close twice. First time my third shot was from about 80 yards and ended up a couple inches short of the hole for a tap in birdie. The second time my drive was a beauty followed by my first ever green under regulation leaving me 20 odd yards for an eagle but left it a couple feet short for a birdie. Otherwise I haven't been close :) Regards Mailman

[WUTiger]

i got my first one back in the late 1980s.

My brother got his first one last week. He hit a super drive on a short par 4, ending up in the light greenside rough. He took a lob wedge, dropped the shot short of the cup and rolled it in for a 2.

He called me to tell me, as the brand X  lob wedge was a freebie I gave him last year. I never could hit the thing with any consistency, so I'm glad he got it working.

[mvmac]

I voted for 10-20.

Six hole in ones and two hole outs on par 4's. I've eagled more than two par 5's so that's how I came up with it.