Your Hottest Start?

[iacas]

http://www.globalgolfpost.com/now/2016/02/23/pga-pro-goes-birdie-eagle-ace-in-consecutive-holes

When I first read the story it said that the guy got off to a hot start: a birdie 2, an eagle 2, and then a hole in one (1, obviously) for a five-under-par start through three holes.

Turns out those were holes 5, 6, and 7. But anyway, the question remains the same: what is your hottest start (of at least two holes)? Where did you achieve it?

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My hottest start was to be -3 through two holes, both par fours, at Lawrence Park GC.

http://www.gamegolf.com/player/iacas/round/84708

I hit a driver and a good wedge on the first hole to about eight feet (@david_wedzik had put it to three feet), and made the putt. The second hole I hit it near the green and pitched in for an eagle. We joked that it was "45 watch" because that's what -3 through 2 would be if you could somehow keep it up.

Even from the times I've played forward tees, because the second hole at Whispering Woods is a par three, I've never been three under through two holes.

[DaveP043]

I know I've started with 3 birdies before, in a club championship first (not championship) flight match.  Playing against my buddy Milt, he came back and made it close, I think I won 2 and 1.

[Grumpter]

If we are limiting it to the start of the round then sadly just -1 through 2 holes. I have had 3 birdies and 1 par in 4 holes but that came at the end of a round. I have been 3 under through 9 holes once but can't remember at what point I made those birdies.

[Patch]

Mine was at Furnace Creek GC in Death Valley. 121 degrees when we started. 

Golf wise I shot a 72 after starting out with an eagle, and 2 birds. Doubled the 4th hole. This was quite a few years ago at some course near Disneyland. 

Edited February 23, 2016 by Patch

[Yukari]

Mine was -3, a birdie and an eagle on drivable par 4 second at Fossil Trace. Then my real game showed up. 

[David in FL]

Huh...

I know I've started birdie, birdie several times, but really can't remember anything particular about the actual rounds.  I do know that none of them resulted in an overall unusually low round.  

[bkuehn1952]

A course I play periodically starts with a relatively short par 5, a moderate par 4 and a decently long par 3 (212 yards).  I shot "3", "3", "3" to start.  The easiest "3" was the eagle on the first hole.  Ran my 2nd shot to about 18 inches.

I don't think I broke 80 that day as all the fireworks were on the first several holes. 

[Golfingdad]

I've birdied the first hole a couple of times in my life.  I also started bogey, birdie, par, birdie once a couple of years ago, so I guess that -1 after 4 holes is probably my best.

  On 2/23/2016 at 6:31 PM, bkuehn1952 said:

A course I play periodically starts with a relatively short par 5, a moderate par 4 and a decently long par 3 (212 yards).

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What does it start with the rest of the time? 

[rehmwa]

a couple summers ago - 2 under after 2 - did it another time last year, but no better...

 

(then 3 over, then 3 under, then 2 par)

[saevel25]

I've went,

Par, Par, Birdie, Birdie

[jamo]

Off the top of my head, I know I went eagle-par-par once to start a round at Highfields Golf Club once a few years ago when I shot a (IIRC) 68.

[GolfLug]

Birdie, Birdie.. 5 years ago at HCPed tourney in MB. Then a steady stream of bogies and doubles after. Finished in upper 90s if memory serves right. Some hot start...

[allenc]

I have no memorable hot starts but just last week I had my hotest somethings of three consecutive birdies.  It was a par 64 course so all three were par threes. I made a 20 footer, a 12 footer from just off the green, and a tap in.  It was leading to one of my better rounds but I had to quit on 15 because it got dark.

[jkelley9]

my hottest start was par, birdie, par, par. going into #5 at -1 was an amazing feeling but then i sullied the round from there lol. overall i shot my average (i think a 44 on that 9, 113 slope). i wish i could have played that round with my father-in-law and really freaked him out on my level of progress since last we played lol. but oh well :)

[esayers]

Started with 3 pars in a row on. It was a fun round ended up with a 45 for the round which is good for me . 

[14ledo81]

The first hole at my home course is a downhill, shorter par 5.  Probably the easiest hole on the course to birdie.  It is also the hole where I had my sole eagle.  The first 6 holes are not that difficult.  I believe I have been -1 through 6 before and certain that I have been even through 6 many times.  7, 8, and 9 are the hardest 3 hole stretch though.  I am typically happy if I come out of them with bogies.

[Gator Hazard]

I have twice gone par, bogey on my first two holes when they have started us on the back nine instead.  Doesn't sound great but for me it is a darned good start.  I think the first time I went par, bogey, par.  This last weekend on my home course was the par bogey one.  I was sent out by myself and played probably one of my best 9 holes on that specific course (Northdale-my home course).  I shot 56 on the back nine, and although that doesn't sound great, the last two times I had played I shot a 140 and a 126 because I have not been playing lately or practicing, been busy.  So I was pretty happy with the score, and most happy that I didn't have any double digit blow up holes.  In general when I messed up I took my medicine.  I parred the par 5 #16 which is a hard hole for the second time in a row and was happy about that as well.  

Edited February 23, 2016 by Gator Hazard

[jbishop15]

-3 thru 2. Birdied the par 5 first on a total fluke putt, and then jarred an eagle from the rough from 149.