CRANBERRY TWP — Turning 69 this Sunday, Phyllis Bishop knows all about senior moments.

But on at least three occasions, the Cranberry Township resident was on top of her golf game.

Playing with her husband Jake in Florida last month, Bishop scored a hole-in-one on a 115-yard hole at Lexington Oaks Golf Club in Wesley Chapel with a 7-iron.

She also aced a 90-yard hole with a 9-iron at Heritage Harbor Golf and Country Club in Lutz, Fla., last year.

At age 64, Bishop scored her first ace at Reserve Run in Poland, Ohio, using a 6-iron on a 134-yard hole in August of 2005.

A golfer for 25 years, Bishop had never scored a hole-in-one before turning 64.

"I can't explain it. I have no idea," she said. "I've been close to a few more, too. I almost got a second one on that same day last month."

That day was March 10, when Bishop was playing a 100-yard par-3 hole and her tee shot came to rest 10 inches from the cup.

"It was so close, I took my shoe off to measure it," she said, laughing.

Bishop never saw her actual ace roll into the cup that day.

"There were shadows on the green and I just couldn't see it," she said. "There were trees on either side of the green and a lake behind it — it looked like a horseshoe.

"One of the guys I was playing with yelled out that it may have rolled in. I knew it was a good shot, but figured it'd be on the green somewhere."

Bishop said she normally shoots in the high 80s or low 90s for 18 holes. Her husband's average is about 10 strokes better.

Lately, she's been finishing a stroke or two behind him.

"No doubt she's giving me a run for my money now," Jake Bishop said. "She's elevated her game quite a bit."

A few holes-in-one will help a golfer do that.

"Jake's game really peaked a few years ago," Phyllis Bishop said. "He's been fine-tuning his game and routinely beating me by 10 strokes or more.

"The other day at Cranberry Highlands, he shot an 83 and I had an 84, so I'm right there with him."

She almost had a hole-in-one there as well when her tee shot rolled toward the hole before stopping a couple of feet short of the cup.

The greens were being aerated that day, which might have slowed the ball down, she said.

"There were speckles of sand on it. ... The ball probably goes in otherwise," Phyllis Bishop said.

A longtime golfer himself, Jake Bishop has one hole-in-one, which he recorded in 1964 on a 120-yard hole in Medina, Ohio.

"I've had other shots come close, right on the edge, but I haven't been able to get another one to fall," he said.

Bishop doesn't tease her husband about her recent run of holes-in-one.

"It takes some skill to get one, but it takes a lot of luck," she said. "The golf gods have to be with you."