FRANKLIN TWP — Bill Miller will never consider the No. 13 unlucky.

Miller, 59, the Butler County Community College golf coach for the past 13 years, scored a hole-in-one on the No. 13, 179-yard hole Monday at Lake Arthur Golf Club.

The ace was the first in Miller's 30-plus years of golfing — and it won him a car.

Miller was participating in the fourth annual Nick Herman Memorial Golf Tournament. Butler County Ford and Armstrong Cable were donating a $28,000, 2017 Ford Mustang Convertible to the first golfer to sink a hole-in-one on No. 13.

“I'm still trying to digest the fact that shot went in,” Miller said. “After a while, you wonder if you're ever going to get one.

“Winning a car at the same time ... I'm still trying to reel all of this in.”

Miller said he's witnessed only three aces by anybody in his lifetime — all three coming on the No. 11 hole at Oakview Golf Club in Slippery Rock.

Mike Franko, director of advertising for Butler County Ford, has been golfing for 50 years and had never seen a hole-in-one. He was one of Miller's playing partners Monday.

“I've never had one, never seen one,” Franko said of the ace. “That was on a long par-3, too, just a long, straight shot.”

Miller used a 2 hybrid and said the ball “looked like it was going to roll left of the hole.

“I saw it hit the pin, then lost sight of it.”

Doug Frost and Jan Kasnevich were Miller's other playing partners in the four-person best ball event. The quartet combined to shoot a 9-under-par 63.

Franko rode his golf cart to the green and confirmed Miller's ball was in the hole — and the car was won.

“I can't put into words how it felt watching such a good friend win that,” Franko said. “It took us a couple of holes to recover from that. We were numb.”

Miller's shot was the lone hole-in-one of the day. There were 116 golfers in the Herman Memorial, with all of the proceeds benefiting Andy's Outreach, the Center Township Athletic Association and the Primarily Kids Pre-School.

Nick Herman died from a medical condition at age 6 in February 2014. He attended Primarily Kids Pre-School and played T-ball in Center Township.

His mother is an employee of Texas Roadhouse in Butler. Andy's Outreach — a program funded by donations from Texas Roadhouse employees nationwide — paid for Nick's funeral.

“It's a national program that aids Texas Roadhouse employees in times of tragedy, natural disasters, whatever the case may be,” said Kelly Huffman, managing partner of Texas Roadhouse. “It wasn't that the family couldn't have paid for Nick's funeral ... This is just what Andy's Outreach does.”

There are 523 Texas Roadhouse restaurants throughout the country and each participates in the Andy's Outreach program.

“That type of generosity and the places that meant so much to Nick while he was here — our family wanted to give back,” Nick's grandfather, Bob Herman, said. “That's the purpose of this golf outing.”

It wound up giving plenty to Miller as well.

“You just don't expect to come to an event like this and win a car,” Miller said, shaking his head.

Lake Arthur Golf Club General Manager Scott Choura has been working at golf courses for 26 years “and this is just the third time I've seen it happen.”

The last time was in 2014, when Mark Werner of Summit Township won a car for an ace he shot during a Butler Catholic golf outing at Lake Arthur — on the same No. 13 hole.

There were significant prizes available for a hole-in-one on the three other par-3 holes Monday — airline tickets to anywhere in the continental United States, golf clubs and a big-screen TV.

Nobody won those.

“But I'll take this,” Miller said, grinning. “This is one beautiful car.”