Jim Teal of Suffolk distinguished himself again as being part of the community of golfers to hit an ace after recording one last week at Cedar Point Country Club.

His swing on the par-3 No. 9 hole on June 9 brought him the second hole-in-one of his approximately 55-year playing career. The other single shot came in July 2011 about a hundred yards from the hole on a course near Pinehurst, N.C.

“This was about 50 yards longer,” Teal said of his latest ace.

He used a 4-hybrid on the hole, which he said plays uphill. There was some wind blowing, and he made the appropriate adjustments to account for it.

“When I saw the shot in the air, it looked like it was heading right for the hole, and my playing partners really said the same thing,” Teal said. However, “I didn’t see it go in and the three gentlemen I was playing with didn’t see it.”

As they approached the green and the ball was still out of sight, Teal reasoned it was in one of two places — the hole or the back sand trap.

“I was thinking it was in the back sand trap,” he said, and upon discovering the ball’s actual location, he was excited.

“When you do it, you consider it to be luck,” he said of hitting an ace. “There certainly has to be a little luck involved.”

But he also noted that this ace was also the achievement of his goal; as No. 9 was shorter, he was aiming directly for the hole.

“We probably have 12 hole-in-ones a year — somewhere in there — on average,” said Cedar Point director of golf T.J. Young, noting golfers ace No. 9 probably four times a year.

The course has a few different shorter holes, which vary in difficulty level, but in terms of acing them, “none of them are easy,” Young said.

Teal, 67, has played golf since he was 12. After joining the U.S. Coast Guard, he could not play with a high level of consistency, but since retiring from the military in 1995, he has been a fairly regular presence on the golf course. His average has come down into the low 80s.

On June 9, “I think I ended up shooting a 79,” Teal said. “So if I hadn’t had the hole-in-one, I would have been pretty much at my average.”

His consistency was impressive because he said that after the excitement of hitting a hole-in-one, “it’s pretty hard to stay focused the remainder of the round.”

Teal’s ace broke a tie he was in with his wife, Sue Teal, who got her first one about three years ago on No. 12 at Cedar Point.