Joan Stevens recaptured some old glory at St. Jude Golf Club last week.

While playing a round Friday, the 81-year-old Karns City woman sank a hole-in-one on the 101-yard No. 13 hole with a 5-iron.

"Sometimes I use a 7- or 8-iron," Stevens said. "I don't hit the ball like I used to. It's an uphill hole and the ball kept rolling.

"It was a blind shot. I didn't see the ball go in the hole, but that doesn't matter. It was in there," she added.

Stevens said she recorded a similar hole-in-one about 20 years ago on a par-3 hole at Grove City Country Club.

She had never had one in 71 years as a member at St. Jude.

"It was about time," Stevens said.

Stevens' father, Robert Donald Foss, was the club's first-ever champion in 1936. The golf course was called Ridgeview until about 1979.

"I was the second child and my mother had twins after me," Stevens said. "Dad had to take care of somebody and I was it.

"He got me my first golf membership there when I was 10."

For years - as recently as age 70 - Stevens played golf every day at St. Jude. She still plays nine holes two or three times a week.

St. Jude club pro Ron Milanovich said Stevens is the oldest female member of the club and is the oldest to get a hole-in-one there.

"George Beck is about her age and he got a hole-in-one two years ago," Milanovich said.

Stevens was St. Jude's women's club champion for nearly 20 years.

"Don't read too much into that because we didn't have very many woman golfers who were that good," she said. "I was a member of the Western Golf Association, but was never championship stuff.

"I used to be a good golfer. I was never a great golfer," she added.

Stevens' husband, Robert, died three years ago. He was also a longtime St. Jude club member.

Besides golf, Stevens described her other physical activity as "walking the dog."

"You have to stay active, don't you?" she asked.

"She has a lot of vitality," Milanovich said. "Joan used to be a physical education teacher. She's always been a popular person here."

While Stevens welcomes her latest hole-in-one, she shrugs it off at the same time.

"When I think of all the rounds of golf I've played, all the par-3 holes I've played - a lot of getting a hole-in-one is luck," she said.

"I've read about people who have gotten dozens of them. How do they do it? It's a mystery to me," she added.

Now that she's finally secured an ace at St. Jude, don't expect Stevens to stop playing golf any time soon.

"I'm going to keep playing until I can't move," she said.