CENTER TWP — Dan Robinson already had one claim to fame.

Now, 40 years later, the Adams Township resident has another.

Robinson, 52, recently used a 3-wood on the No. 8, 282-yard par-4 hole at Aubrey’s Dubbs Dred and shot a hole-in-one with it. He became the first golfer to ever ace that hole.

Multiple holes-in-one had been shot on No.’s 5, 10, 11 and 17 at Aubrey’s. No. 11 is a 310-yard par-4 and has yielded aces to Bill Fragale, Jonathan Gray and Todd Starkey within the last five years.

Now No. 8 has joined that list.

“Actually, I thought I hit it off the green, on to the other side,” Robinson said. “That’s where I went to look for the ball.

“Some ladies saw it go in the hole and said ‘nice eagle’ as I walked by. They thought I chipped it in.

“I wish I had seen it go in,” Robinson added.

As a 12-year-old playing for Ingomar in the Little League World Series, Robinson hit a home run in Williamsport. He added a game-winning two-run single in the final inning of another game. His team won eight straight games in the LLWS before finally being eliminated.

“That was a three-run homer that won the game,” Robinson said. “You don’t forget those things. I still have the ball.”

He thought he had lost the golf ball.

“The wind was blowing out and I remember teeing up that shot, figuring my 3-wood might carry it,” Robinson said. “I saw the ball hit and hop. I thought it was long gone.

“I was about to just drop another ball and play when those ladies told me it was in the hole.”

The double eagle was the second of Robinson’s lifetime. The first was on a par-5, 569-yard hole at Reston National Golf Course in Virginia 24 years ago.

A heavy hitter off the tee, Robinson once finished among the top 10 in the country at a national long drive competition. A 1980 North Allegheny graduate, he worked at Golf-in Wexford when he was in high school and college.

“That’s how I learned to play the game,” he said. “I was into football, basketball and baseball when I was a kid.”

Robinson once averaged more than 300 yards on his drives and still drives the ball 300 yards routinely.

The ace at Aubrey’s was the first of his golfing career.

“I had come close a couple of times before,” he recalled. “I hit the flag stick once. On No. 13 at Stonecrest, the ball wound up an inch from the hole and I tapped in for eagle.

“With my drives, I’ve been set up for a number of eagle putts over the years. I’ve made my share and I’ve missed my share.”

Robinson golfed at Aubrey’s on a regular basis years ago before moving to Virginia in the mid-1980’s. He moved back to the Pittsburgh area in 2000, but did not return to Aubrey’s until 2010.

“They’re good people there and it’s a fun place to play,” he said of Dubb’s Dred.

Robinson usually golfs twice a week. He plays Aubrey’s roughly once a month.

And when he tees the ball up on No. 8?

“I know I’ll never do that again,” he said, laughing.