According to Golf Digest, the odds of making a hole-in-one on any hole is 20,000 to 1. So if you figure that there are usually four par3s on each 18-hole round, then the odds are that you can make an ace once in every 5,000 rounds.

If you average two rounds a week that makes about 100 rounds a year. Playing for 50 years, that total could reach 5,000.

So making one ace in your lifetime is something a golfer can be proud of!

Well, I must be one lucky guy because I now have made 12 holes-in-one.

Having played for 46 years, I know that I have not played anywhere close to 46,000 round, the number that it might take to register that many aces.

My most recent ace came on July 29th in the Wylie Hall of Honor Golf Tournament when I holed a pitching wedge from 101 yards on the 11th hole at the Woodbridge Golf Club in Wylie. Witnesses were Ray Mullins, Raymond Stone and Wylie High Athletic Director Mark Ball.

"The funny thing is that just a few days earlier I had thought to myself that it was about time for me to make another ace, but it was a surprise that day since I was not really having a good day."

My first ace? On the 180-yard eighth hole at the Hill Crest C.C. in Vernon when I was 17. Now I bet that I hit that green only about one out of 10 times.

My longest? On the 295-yard fifth hole at the Brookhaven C.C. Presidents Course in Dallas during the Brookhaven Member-Guest,. They were giving all kinds of nice prizes for aces on the par 3s, but nothing on that particular hole.

My longest stretch without an ace? "Nineteen years , from 1981 when I aced the par 4 until 2000. Then I made two holes-in-one within a month while I was director of golf at the Garra de Leon Golf Course in Costa Rica. The first came when I was playing by myself late one day--the second time for that to happen. I took a lot of kidding from my golfing buddies. They were not laughing less than a month later when I turned the trick again with two guests from New York as witnesses."