Could you birdie all 18 holes?

[GolfSpy_SHARK]

Son saw this earlier on Instagram.

if you had 24 hours and stamina was not a problem, could you birdie all 18 holes at your typical local course?

again stamina. It an issue and no one else in the course just you going through every hole and trying to birdie them.

for me I don’t think I could in 24 hours. I would choose my local club maplegste CC. I think I could eventually but there are a few par 4s that would be brutal.

what say you? What course would you try to tackle and could you do it?

[GolfSpy_BEN]

Given that I didn’t birdie all 18 holes at my local course last season, achieving it in 8 tries over a 24 hr period (3 hour rounds) seems highly unlikely. It would be cool to try though

[MmmmmmBuddy]

I believe that this shouldn't be a problem.  Sounds like I need to attempt at some point this year....  I might wait until the days are a bit longer to try.  

Next question: What are the rules of this challenge?

• What tees/Course length?
• If I don't make a birdie, do I have to finish the hole?
• Do eagles and HIOs count?
• If I get to 16 holes birdied, can I just play the remaining 2 holes until I get them?
• Do holes have to be played in order?
• Do I need a witness?

thx!

[Josh Parker]

So are there rules to this?  If not, I'm hitting 5 off the tee and playing all 5. I would stay on that hole until I birdied and then move on. The few holes that are the toughest, I'm leaving for last because stamina isn't an issue.  I think it could be done for sure. 

You have over an hour per hole to get birdie. 

Edited March 23 by Josh Parker

[GolfSpy_SHARK]

7 minutes ago, MmmmmmBuddy said:

I believe that this shouldn't be a problem.  Sounds like I need to attempt at some point this year....  I might wait until the days are a bit longer to try.  

Next question: What are the rules of this challenge?

• What tees/Course length?
• If I don't make a birdie, do I have to finish the hole?
• Do eagles and HIOs count?
• If I get to 16 holes birdied, can I just play the remaining 2 holes until I get them?
• Do holes have to be played in order?
• Do I need a witness?

thx!

Just hypothetical more of a do you think you could?

would be cool to try if you have 4 hour rounds call it in 6 rounds could you do it?

[GolfSpy_SHARK]

8 minutes ago, Josh Parker said:

So are there rules to this?  If not, I'm hitting 5 off the tee and playing all 5. I would stay on that hole until I birdied and then move on. The few holes that are the toughest, I'm leaving for last because stamina isn't an issue.  I think it could be done for sure. 

You have over an hour per hole to get birdie. 

Yea strategy wise I think I would go hole by hole until I did it. Or if I could do 3 holes where it brought be back to the tee box of those 3 holes at the end to save time I think that’s a goood strategy to

[Josh Parker]

2 minutes ago, GolfSpy_SHARK said:

Yea strategy wise I think I would go hole by hole until I did it. Or if I could do 3 holes where it brought be back to the tee box of those 3 holes at the end to save time I think that’s a goood strategy to

My course is so spread out, it's the only way to utilize time.  

[MmmmmmBuddy]

2 minutes ago, GolfSpy_SHARK said:

Just hypothetical more of a do you think you could?

would be cool to try if you have 4 hour rounds call it in 6 rounds could you do it?

Not a chance..  If I only get 6 shots at making a birdie on each hole? I cannot imagine a world where this happens.  

[sirchunksalot]

I don't know if in the given time frame I could par all 18 holes as there are two on my course that I can think of I haven't made par on in years of playing. 

The first is the 10th, which I have mentioned a few times is my nemesis hole. I mean, I did par it once from the forward tees but for this I would play it from the whites or greens. I just don't get along with the tee shot. 

The other is the 15th which is an uphill par 4 which plays about 410, I just can't reach it in two and give myself a chance to two putt for par. 

 

[TJ Hall]

I would say this is unlikely…there are holes that I’ve never birdied on the course I play the most.

[GolfSpy_APH]

2 hours ago, GolfSpy_SHARK said:

Son saw this earlier on Instagram.

if you had 24 hours and stamina was not a problem, could you birdie all 18 holes at your typical local course?

again stamina. It an issue and no one else in the course just you going through every hole and trying to birdie them.

for me I don’t think I could in 24 hours. I would choose my local club maplegste CC. I think I could eventually but there are a few par 4s that would be brutal.

what say you? What course would you try to tackle and could you do it?

24 hours I am thinking I could get roughly 100 holes with good daylight so 5-6 rounds... Hell no! 

I played 70 some odd rounds and there are still a few holes I have not birdies so not a chance.

[Thomas 2024]

Probably not, still trying to improve my game. We only get to play 6 months of the year.

[hckymeyer]

I saw this also via golf twitter/instagram.  There are a few rules with more details.  Just apply it to your home course and normal tee's so we don't have to worry about things like length/rating/slope.  You can pick the days and times so you also can play in decent weather.

• You have the whole course to yourself
• You can play in any order and play the hole as many times as you want in the time allowed
• You don't have to finish the hole if you hit a bad one. i.e. shank one just pick up and start over
• The 24 hours is split in to 6 x 4 hour sessions so fatigue isn't an issue
• No mulligans

It's a very interesting question, at first glance it does seem doable.  However, the more I think about it and how often I actually birdie certain holes at my course, it may be harder than I think.

[ParFore74x]

I can’t even birdie them all in a season, there’s no way I’m getting it done in 24 hours. I’ve still got one hole, on one of the two courses that I play the most, that I have yet to shoot par after three years of playing there. 

[GolfSpy_SHARK]

28 minutes ago, GolfSpy_APH said:

24 hours I am thinking I could get roughly 100 holes with good daylight so 5-6 rounds... Hell no! 

I played 70 some odd rounds and there are still a few holes I have not birdies so not a chance.

 

5 minutes ago, ParFore74x said:

I can’t even birdie them all in a season, there’s no way I’m getting it done in 24 hours. I’ve still got one hole, on one of the two courses that I play the most, that I have yet to shoot par after three years of playing there. 

But different from just playing a single ball if you could put out multiple balls in play?

[GolfSpy_APH]

20 minutes ago, GolfSpy_SHARK said:

 

But different from just playing a single ball if you could put out multiple balls in play?

That definitely changes things. That could be possible...

[Woodrow72]

Not at my age I don’t think so but I would try it , on another note the course I learned to play on back in the 70/80/90’s I eagled every hole on this 9 hole course except the par threes over the years I played 

[Sleeech]

I don’t think there would be enough time! If you gave 48 total hours it would probably be more doable. 24 hours would only be an hour and 20 min per hole, so would greatly depend how hard the course is. Great thread though!

[Skrizan]

Got 6" of snow here in Michigan yesterday, so no.  But seriously, I play 2 9 hole leagues on the same course and never birdie every hole in a season.  I did birdie holes 9, 10 and 11 on another course my first round this season, so maybe not impossible, but highly unlikely for sure.

[hckymeyer]

9 minutes ago, Sleeech said:

I don’t think there would be enough time! If you gave 48 total hours it would probably be more doable. 24 hours would only be an hour and 20 min per hole, so would greatly depend how hard the course is. Great thread though!

Once you birdie a hole though you don't have to play it anymore, so would be end up being more time per hole on the tougher ones.

[Sleeech]

Just now, hckymeyer said:

Once you birdie a hole though you don't have to play it anymore, so would be end up being more time per hole on the tougher ones.

True. And you also could just restart any hole as soon as a birdie was out of reach. I still think it would be pretty difficult in 24 hours though. 

[hckymeyer]

45 minutes ago, GolfSpy_SHARK said:

 

But different from just playing a single ball if you could put out multiple balls in play?

I would think in the interest of time, you could play multiple balls at once, but each would have to be played on it's own.  No scramble situation or muligans.

Since you can pick up any time after a bad shot though, you could sit on the tee box on par 3's and keep hitting until you get one close.

[ParFore74x]

1 hour ago, GolfSpy_SHARK said:

 

But different from just playing a single ball if you could put out multiple balls in play?

 

35 minutes ago, hckymeyer said:

Once you birdie a hole though you don't have to play it anymore, so would be end up being more time per hole on the tougher ones.

Ok so if a person played one hole at a time until they get the bird then move onto the next hole, that could possibly change things. That could be doable in 24 hours. 

[JackieMoon_LMS]

One hole at a time until birdie is made. I absolutely could. Would be challenging but I’d be up for it. 

[Karls0991]

Some holes are really tough birdie holes in general. No shot I could even come close. Now with unlimited mulligans I think I could do it. 

[funkyjudge]

2 hours ago, hckymeyer said:

I saw this also via golf twitter/instagram.  There are a few rules with more details.  Just apply it to your home course and normal tee's so we don't have to worry about things like length/rating/slope.  You can pick the days and times so you also can play in decent weather.

• You have the whole course to yourself
• You can play in any order and play the hole as many times as you want in the time allowed
• You don't have to finish the hole if you hit a bad one. i.e. shank one just pick up and start over
• The 24 hours is split in to 6 x 4 hour sessions so fatigue isn't an issue
• No mulligans

It's a very interesting question, at first glance it does seem doable.  However, the more I think about it and how often I actually birdie certain holes at my course, it may be harder than I think.

Since I have birdied every single hole (not in the same round, obviously!) over the years at three different golf courses, and eagled multiple holes on 2 of those 3 courses), I might be able to birdie all 18 holes in a 24-hour period on at least one (maybe two) of them. It would have to be on one of my stellar ball-striking days, which are getting increasingly more rare, so who knows!

[GolfSpy_SHARK]

1 hour ago, ParFore74x said:

 

Ok so if a person played one hole at a time until they get the bird then move onto the next hole, that could possibly change things. That could be doable in 24 hours. 

That’s kind of what I was thinking focus on a hole at a time

[TSauer]

2 hours ago, ParFore74x said:

 

Ok so if a person played one hole at a time until they get the bird then move onto the next hole, that could possibly change things. That could be doable in 24 hours. 

This was my way of thinking as well. If I can keep restarting the hole and maybe play two balls at once to speed things up, there's a slight chance I could do it. very, very slight.

I wonder how many balls I'd lose in the process.

[ParFore74x]

45 minutes ago, TSauer said:

This was my way of thinking as well. If I can keep restarting the hole and maybe play two balls at once to speed things up, there's a slight chance I could do it. very, very slight.

I wonder how many balls I'd lose in the process.

I’d take a spotter with me to make sure that all of my balls were accounted for.  

[revkev]

19 hours ago, MmmmmmBuddy said:

Not a chance..  If I only get 6 shots at making a birdie on each hole? I cannot imagine a world where this happens.  

Same with me - no chance at my club unless I’m playing the special junior tees that make all the par 4’s around 250 yards and even the par 5’s around 300. 
 

I suppose I could at my league course so long as I was allowed to play the senior tees but I would still need some fortunate breaks. 
 

Think about this and ask yourself how often you get up and down in 2 from 150.