Dundee FC legend Jocky Scott is still hitting the target but with a golf ball rather than a football.
The Dens Park great has shot his ninth hole-in-one but has admitted: “It was my greatest, luckiest shot ever.”
The five-handicapper mishit his tee shot on the 187-yard 11th hole on Monifieth Medal and feared the worst as he watched it sail towards a bunker on the right side of the green.
“I used my rescue club and my ball bounced short of the sand,” he said.
“Somehow it kicked left, shot across the green and rolled straight into the cup. I couldn’t believe it and neither could my two playing partners, who said something I can’t repeat.”
Jocky, now 66, was nonetheless delighted by what was his second hole-in-one on the 11th at Monifieth, proof his sporting talents were not confined to football.
He enters many Grange Golf Club competitions and has enjoyed a fair degree of success, in one recent season scooping eight prizes. He modestly plays down his achievements, however.
He said: “I’ve been very fortunate. I do enjoy the game and play a lot.”
Jocky did not play golf as a boy growing up in Aberdeen but took it up when he signed for Dundee in the 1960s.
“One afternoon after training the young lads said they were going for a game of golf and I went along with them,” he recalled.
“I’d never picked up a golf club before but off we went to Caird Park.
“I hired a set of clubs, played a round and liked it so much that I bought my own clubs and it all came from there.”
Jocky, who after an illustrious playing career with Dundee and his home town team had three spells as manager at Dens Park, won a limited-edition BOSS watch as recognition for his achievement.
The luxury German brand is rewarding club golfers with an exclusive timepiece for every hole-in-one recorded during a club competition in 2014.