Any golfer would get excited about getting a hole-in-one.

Anyone except Freeport freshman Kaine Mowatt, that is. By now the experience has become ho-hum for him.

Mowatt, who averages a 45 for nine holes and plays on the Yellowjackets' junior varsity squad, recently scored a hole-in-one on the 162-yard, No. 7 hole at Buffalo Golf Course during a team practice round. He used a 5-iron.

It was the sixth ace in the 13-year-old's two-year golfing career. He began playing at age 12.

"When I heard that, I couldn't believe it," said Freeport High School golf coach Dave Panach. "When Kaine first moved to this area, I asked his father what kind of golfer he was.

"He told me his son owned three holes-in-one in his lifetime. I thought he was talking about miniature golf."

Mowatt began playing golf at age 12, when his family lived in Cincinnati. His first ace occurred while the family was vacationing in Myrtle Beach, S.C.

"It was at a course called Kane Patch, strangely enough," his father, Aaron Mowatt, said.

That hole was 147 yards. Mowatt scored two more aces last year while playing for the Lakota Plains Junior High golf team in Cincinnati. Those holes were 154 and 149 yards in length.

Since moving to Butler County, Mowatt sank holes-in-one on the No. 5 hole at Saxon Golf Course, on a 112-yard hole at Mars-Bethel and the recent one at Buffalo.

"I remember each one. I saw them all go in," young Mowatt said. "The one at Saxon went in on a fly. It hit the pin, too.

"The others once either bounced in or rolled in."

Since he stands close to 5-foot-4 and doesn't weight much more than 100 pounds, Mowatt isn't physically large.

"He's the prime example of the theory that you don't have to be big, powerful and be able to crush the ball to be a successful golfer," Panach said. "Kaine hits the ball straight and he hits the ball accurately.

"Clearly, he's gotten some breaks. But his accuracy sets him up for those breaks."

Panach said he knows of some club pros - golfers who have played in the U.S. Open - who never have had a hole-in-one.

"I've been playing for 30 years and I've hit one hole-in-one. To think of a 13-year-old kid with six of them is mind-boggling," he said.

Mowatt hasn't allowed his run of aces to go to his head.

"I feel awfully lucky to be able to do that," he said. "I usually don't hit the ball very far. I just want to hit it in the right spot."

Like in the hole.

"He's a very coachable kid," Panach said. "He had been using a set of cut-down-size clubs. He's just started to move on to a regular set of clubs."

Golf is not the only sport Mowatt participates in at Freeport. He plays second base and shortstop in baseball, hopes to start at point guard for the freshman basketball team and is a midfielder in soccer.

Golf is his sport of choice, however.

"I'm hoping to get a scholarship one day and play in college. I want to play competitively for as long as I can," Mowatt said.