When it comes to one shot, a golfer can’t do better than a hole-in-one.

Once that ace does occur, the person producing the feat admits to luck playing a factor in it.

The oddity can be when the hole-in-one happens.

Former Butler resident Irene Rihn, now living in Fort Myers, Fla., scored an ace at Stoughton Acres on Tuesday while home visiting family.

A number of Butler County residents have picked up holes-in-one while vacationing in Florida.

Butler Country Club has now played host to a pair of unique hole-in-one happenings — involving pairs of golfers.

Last Sunday, Ken Fleeson, 58, of Cranberry Township realized his first-ever hole-in-one on the No. 10, 155-yard hole at the club. He landed his tee shot past the flag, on the hilly portion of the green behind it.

The ball rolled down the slope and into the hole.

Two hours later, Dr. Jack Mascia, 74, of Butler, teed off on that same No. 10 hole. He hit from the seniors tee, 123 yards from the flag.

Mascia’s shot did the same thing as Fleeson’s — sailed over the flag, hit the hill and rolled back in.

Strange coincidence?

Indeed.

But it wasn’t the strangest pair of aces to ever occur at Butler Country Club.

Turn back the clock to Oct. 10, 1996.

Dave Hunter, then 36 and general manager of a truck sales business in Eau Claire, hit his tee shot on the No. 4, 133-yard hole at the club. It bounced twice and landed in the hole.

After a brief celebration with the other three guys in the foursome, Phil Crouse, then 42 and owner of an insurance agency in Buffalo Township, teed up his ball.

“I remember how thrilled I was for Dave,” Crouse recalled. “I had never seen a hole-in-one before.”

He was about to see another one.

Crouse’s shot off the tee bounced once and landed in the hole as well.

“Then we really went nuts, jumping around, high-fiving each other like crazy,” Crouse said. “I remember that moment like it was yesterday.”

The two others in the foursome were Ed McClellan and Hunter’s brother, Jeff.

Dave Hunter’s ace was his first in 23 years.

Crouse’s ace was the first — and only one — of his life.

“I came close at Pebble Beach about eight years ago,” Crouse said. “The ball wound up about 3 inches from the hole.”

No golfer ever knows when that magical shot will happen, if it ever does.

Because of the timing of their shots, Hunter and Crouse will forever be the subjects of one of the more interesting golfing tales at Butler Country Club.

The same can be said for Fleeson and Mascia.

Mascia said that “it’s all just luck, anyway,” after sharing the spotlight with Fleeson a week ago.

Sometimes, it’s better to be lucky than good.

It’s best to be lucky and good.