I definitely do the birdie challenge. I have 11 holes down on each of the two courses I play with a few “birdie” holes on each still up for grabs.
I’d like to get my handicap down to 0.0 (from 1.7 currently, was .5 at start of year) but I don’t play as much right now and one of the courses is a handicap helper (~74 rating) and another is a hurter (~69 rating) so handicap can fluctuate a bit based on which course I’m playing more. So realistically my goal is to get scoring average down from 74 as that would tell me more.