CENTER TWP — When 11-year-old Nathan Jakovac hit his tee shot, it was heading well short of the hole.

“My dad thought I messed it up,” Nathan said.

Father doesn't always know best.

Hitting from the red tee on the No. 3, 105-yard par-3 hole Monday at Stoughton Acres, Nathan watched his golf ball land 35 yards in front of the green — and roll right into the hole.

The Clinton Township resident became the youngest golfer to ever score a hole-in-one in the 49-year-history of the course. He did so on only the second round of golf he's ever played.

“I couldn't believe it. I was in shock,” Nathan said. “I just jumped back and threw my arms in the air.”

“I looked at him, he looked at me ... We both threw our arms in the air,” his father, Heath Jakovac, said. “That was a moment we will never forget.”

The two were playing a nine-hole round with Nathan's younger brother, 8-year-old Camron, and grandfather Terry Jakovac.

“I told him he just joined a very elite club,” his grandfather said. “Guys golf all of their lives and never get a hole-in-one. Your second time on a golf course and it happens.

“That's God winking at you.”

His grandfather got a hole-in-one in 2010 at Yankee Run in the Sharon area. He has been playing golf for 12 years.

Nathan's father has been a golfer for 20 years and has not secured a hole-in-one.

“Watching that happen was just incredible,” Heath Jakovac said. “I couldn't be happier for him.”

Nathan began tinkering with golf a year and a half ago. His first-ever round on a golf course was last month at Saxon.

“Tiger Woods didn't get his first hole-in-one until he was 12,” Terry Yakovac said, laughing. “Nathan's already one up on him.”

On the No. 2 hole at Stoughton, Nathan's drive “probably traveled 200 yards ... I mean, he clocked it,” his grandfather said.

After the hole-in-one, Nathan's tee shot on No. 4 traveled all of 50 yards.

“I was still in shock, but feeling pretty confident,” Nathan said. “Then I popped the next (tee) shot straight up in the air. My confidence got the best of me.”

He went on to shoot a 50 for the round, four strokes behind his father and grandfather.

For his hole-in-one, Nathan received a trophy and two free rounds of golf from Stoughton Acres.

The scorecard will be framed and held onto as a keepsake. The trophy will join Nathan's two basketball and baseball championship trophies in his room.

So what's next for this aspiring golfer?

“Just keep working on getting more pars than bogies,” he said, smiling.