Can you remember your first par?

[David in FL]

Nope,  I don't even Rembrandt my first birdie.  Just too long ago.

I do remember my first eagle.  

[Shindig]

1 hour ago, David in FL said:

Nope,  I don't even Rembrandt my first birdie.  Just too long ago.

My first birdie wasn't what I'd call a work of art either.

[David in FL]

1 minute ago, Shindig said:

My first birdie wasn't what I'd call a work of art either.

Ha!  Damn auto correct!  

[Dave2512]

No recollection of any firsts. I suspect I'd remember first HIO but after playing so much golf it's kind of a blur beyond the last 10 rounds or so. These days I tend to remember the bad holes more than anything. I made my first quad in 4 years a few weeks ago and that I will remember for a while mostly because it was so mundane, just a bunch of bad luck and awkward positions on the course total WTF.

[WUTiger]

I remember my first birdie. No. 9, 400 yard par 4 at former Crystal Lake Country Club* (it  eventually got subdivided in 1979).

Hit a driver that caught fairway and bounded out to about 250. Followed up with a 7i to 6 feet, and sank a slightly uphill putt.

Two days later I got the second birdie on the 440-yd. No. 8. Had another solid drive which rolled out well, hit a 2i onto green and sank a somewhat longer putt. First time I ever got anything good from a 2i.

* (For St. Louis crowd, CLCC was located in Des Peres, a mile north of Lindbergh on Bopp Road.)

[JetFan1983]

I wish I could, but I can't. If I had to bet on it though, I'm sure it was a short par-3. It definitely wasn't a par five.

 

I do recall my first birdie though. It was a 25 yard pitch in at a par-3 course. If I wasn't hooked before that (I was), I was hooked at that moment. Summer of 2008. Twin Brook Par 3 Course. 

My first eagle was a short par 5... the hole normally plays like 520, but they were renovating the tees, so it was playing about 470 that day. I absolutely killed a drive, then somehow had an 8-iron in, which I hit to fifteen feet, then sunk the putt. Not a "true" eagle I guess you could say, since it probably would've been more legit had the hole been longer, but it was still a "3" on the card. 

I think I tripled the next hole or something too haha (which was a 440 yard par 4). Hominy Hill golf course. 

[Chris223]

I don't even remember my first time breaking 100, or even 90 and I've only done that like 4 times lol.  I vaguely remember a birdie that may have been my first, I was a terrible hacker at the time that paired up during a round alone and sunk like a 30ft putt on a par 3 for birdie, may have been my first one, its the oldest one I remember lol.  Eagle, I think I may have only ever made one.  Again, sunk a long putt from just off the green.

[Shindig]

6 hours ago, JetFan1983 said:

My first eagle was a short par 5... the hole normally plays like 520, but they were renovating the tees, so it was playing about 470 that day. I absolutely killed a drive, then somehow had an 8-iron in, which I hit to fifteen feet, then sunk the putt. Not a "true" eagle I guess you could say, since it probably would've been more legit had the hole been longer, but it was still a "3" on the card. 

I think I tripled the next hole or something too haha (which was a 440 yard par 4). Hominy Hill golf course. 

I would argue it's a true eagle if it's 470 yards.  If they had moved the tees up to, say, 390, it might not be a "true" eagle, just a longish par-4.  470 is reasonably a par-5.

But you reminded me of my first time reaching a par-5 in two, and it genuinely isn't a "true on in two."  There's a par-5 (#16 at Shorecliffs in San Clemente, CA) where the tees were up.  I hit driver 4-iron... might have been 2008 or 2009.  Knowing how far I hit my clubs at the time, there's no way that it was more than 360 yards -- and the next time I was there, the scorecard for that hole said par-4.  Then I went there again and it was a par-3.  The internet tells me it's now back to a par-5, but I haven't been there in half a dozen years.

I left the putt short by a foot, tapped in for a birdie that felt like a par because it really was one.  I still don't even have a pretend eagle (which that would have been if I had made the putt). 

But the important thing is, nice eagle my friend.

[JetFan1983]

40 minutes ago, Shindig said:

I would argue it's a true eagle if it's 470 yards.  If they had moved the tees up to, say, 390, it might not be a "true" eagle, just a longish par-4.  470 is reasonably a par-5.

But you reminded me of my first time reaching a par-5 in two, and it genuinely isn't a "true on in two."  There's a par-5 (#16 at Shorecliffs in San Clemente, CA) where the tees were up.  I hit driver 4-iron... might have been 2008 or 2009.  Knowing how far I hit my clubs at the time, there's no way that it was more than 360 yards -- and the next time I was there, the scorecard for that hole said par-4.  Then I went there again and it was a par-3.  The internet tells me it's now back to a par-5, but I haven't been there in half a dozen years.

I left the putt short by a foot, tapped in for a birdie that felt like a par because it really was one.  I still don't even have a pretend eagle (which that would have been if I had made the putt). 

But the important thing is, nice eagle my friend.

Haha, thanks @Shindig. It sure felt like an eagle at the time. I remember yelling pretty loudly when that putt went in. 

Here's to you getting that eagle soon 

[stealthhwk]

Kills me to say that I just cant remember. Not my first par, or my first birdie. I remember some of my lowest rounds. And I remember what I had for breakfast....wait....did I have breakfast? 

[dchoye]

Nope. I remember first time playing as a teenager with friends at a par3 only course had a birdie that summer cause we play every week.

I remember my first one in hole though never forget that.

I also remember first eagle. Graduated to a par4-5 course years later and those days a 250 yard was  a par 4 . Its was a short250 yards as dogleg . Hit a perfect hook that made the green and had a medium length putt for eagle!

 

Edited August 19, 2016 by dchoye