Overachiever! Never let anyone know a great result was anything but exactly what you intended!
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Feel like this could be a segue for a discussion on how stupid “line of sight” out of bounds is when you’re not allowed to hit it over an area of manufactured “out of bounds”. Played a hole growing up in a HS match that was maybe 275 straight line but you “had” to play around the semi circle fairway so hole was 425. If it wasn’t a match I would have said screw the “rule” and hit the green.
I mean it went exactly as I drew it up on the tee box! (better?)
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I cannot remember my first birdie ever but I can remember my first one today. It was a par four. I hit a nice drive, a good 6 iron and made a beautiful 20 foot putt that never thought of staying out of the hole.
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First Birdie:
I was a teen at my hometown course out in the boonies. Par 3 second. Hit tee shot over the back. Chipped it in from the rough. I kept that golf ball for well over a decade ha. I’ll never forget that moment.
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My first birdie was when I was 10. It was my first year playing golf on actual courses. We were on a Disney trip in Orlando and all I wanted to do was play golf. I couldn’t have cared less about the theme parks.
We were playing the Palm course. Second hole from the gold tees. I “crushed” a drive and rolled my second shot up just onto the front of the green. Holed probably a 25 footer for the birdie.
I remember pointing at the hole, then pointing at my dad and said, “Did you see that!?”
He didn’t. He was ordering a Gatorade from the cart girl. 
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Not sure exactly how old I would have been when I made my first birdie but I would have been around 10. I was playing a par 3 course with Grandpa.
I drove the 10th hole a 230 yard par 4 green and two putted from about 15 feet.
I remember being a little scared as my Grandpa told me I had to go apologies to the group in front of me as I rolled the ball up to the green when they were putting.
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Mine would have been at least 40 years ago so don’t remember the details of my first one. I actually went straight from hanging up my baseball spikes for golf spikes when I was in the 8th grade so I’m sure it happened that spring.
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I remember making a 2-putt birdie on a short par 5 when I was 15 or 16 using my cousins 460cc driver which went 50 yards farther than my $10 rattling driver. Don’t know if that was my first birdie, but it’s the oldest one I remember and I didn’t play much (and wasn’t very good) as a kid so it very well might be.
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I don’t remember my first birdie because it would have been 50 some years ago, but I can guess that I did get it with my dad, which was more important and memorable.
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the predecessor to Spieth’s “go get that!”
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I don’t remember my first birdie either, but I do remember my first eagle. I was playing with my dad and my aunt which was great. It was pretty much luck. I did pound a drive on a short par 4, but I caught some hardpan and then the cartpath and wound up pin high right in the rough. Horrible lie, but I gouged it out and it banged the flagstick and in…I think I still shot about 100 that day lol.
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I don’t remember my first birdie, but I do remember my first Eagle. I was playing Aliente Golf Course in Northern Vegas area. I think it was hole #15 par 5 in a tournament It was May 20th 2018. I had 208 to the pin from a flyer lie out of the rough, I hit the best 5 iron I’ve ever hit to 12 feet. Standing over that putt was probably the most nervous I had felt in golf to that point. I hit the putt perfectly and it was sliding towards the low side but hung on. Everyone in the group I was playing against were so excited for me. It was an amazing feeling, I’ve had one additional since.
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I’ve been close but I’m still chasing my first birdie. I’m having to good a time to really even care that much. Just happy to be able to be outside.
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I do remember my first birdie - and how improbable it was!!
It was my first, maybe second season playing golf and I was at one of our local scruffy munis with my good buddy Phil. The memory is a little bittersweet 'cuz Phil … now gone … and I used to surf and windsurf … and, of course, drink beer … together and he got me started in this wacky game.
Anyway… first hole and my first shot does not go OB right like many of my tee shots then did … it hung to the left and the inside of the slight dogleg left and ended up on the edge of the fairway.
Huh.
I grab some random club … having no idea about distances nor that thing I know understand to be called “distance control” … and take a swipe at the ball … to watch it fly towards the green and bounce and roll on to it.
Huh #2.
So I grab the old smooth faced Ray Cook blade putter that was my Mother’s and … now remember: new golfer, zero concept of “break”, zero concept of “distance control” … and I’m standing can’t remember exactly cudda been 8 to 10 feet cudda been twice that … and I hopefully push the golf ball in the direction of the hole.
It’s tracking … it’s tracking … it’s curving … why is it doing that?? … it’s in the hole!
Huh #3.
The other guys are all excited and shouting, and I’m standing there actually thinking how literally improbable those three shots - back to back - were!
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And it was it that moment you became hooked and thought, man this is any easy game…
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HAH!!!
Actually it may have even been during my first season while on the range … you know when you actually catch one and watch it fly and think… wow that was fun!
But, no, I didn’t think this game was easy!
(…incredibly and irritatingly frustrating for many years - yeah - until I have finally figured out and internalized that this game is hard …)
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My first a birdie was on about the 6th hole I ever played!
It was on a 400 yard par 4; I hit a 4 iron to 10 feet!
I had seen enough golf on TV to know those two shot to get me 10 feet from the hole was probably not going to happen too often and I was right!
Thankfully I drained the putt and it took some time to make my second!
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Sure do remember my first Birdie, mainly because it was just this May, just after starting out with the game and passing my course allowance test (yes, you need to pass a test with a Pro to be able to play a course here) 
Was out on my local course for a short 5-hole-round after work, and totally lucked out on the short Par 4 #3: hit a good drive for 196 yards, then asked my 6 year old, who was with me, if I should try going for the green over the water and he’s like “sure thing, Dad!!” - so I grab the 9 iron, and truly manage a nice and high approach just onto the fringe. I high five my boy, we go to the green, somehow all stars align, and my chip from 33 feet rolls right into the cup.
I dropped my club, started running around like a madman, hands in the air and all, and told my son I’m gonna quit the game, as it won’t get any better than this. Luckily at like 7pm there was no one around to see me 
Total and utter beginner’s luck…of course I made double bogey on the next hole 
Here’s the tracking from my Arccos:
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I’m trying to remember my first birdie… but I remember my first par!
I grew up in Danville, CA on a golf course (Blackhawk) and lived on a par 3… we’d go play it on occassion, and I remember at like age 8 I finally made a par on it.
My first eagle was at Sleepy Hollow outside of Dallas, TX… knocked in my second shot from 150 yards, with my golf coach watching.
Birdie, though, I don’t remember… I either got lucky as a kid living on a golf course (we moved when I was 13) or it would have been in Dallas during my mediocre high school career as a golfer.
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