Richie Huffman has been golfing for more than 30 years, but he hasn’t had a lot of moments like he experienced last month at Meadow Greens Course.

Huffman was able to conjure up a hole-in-one for the third time in his life on hole No. 7 in early October, but that wasn’t the special part of his day. Huffman’s ace came less than a year after he suffered a heart attack and a stroke that left him hospitalized for 20 days in February.

While he’s still recovering from the health setback, Huffman said it boosted his spirits to get back on the greens this past summer.

“It helps more in the brain and the soul than it does physically. I’ve lost a lot since (the heart attack) physically,” Huffman said. “The hole-in-one has definitely been a highlight.”

Huffman began golfing with his friends for something to do in his younger days and he has stuck with it ever since. His first hole-in-one came on hole No. 8 at Ramsey and his second hole-in-one came on hole No. 3 in Cedar River Golf Club in the mid 1990s.

He said the feeling of a hole in one never gets old.

“It’s probably 90 percent luck and 10 percent skill. It’s a small hole, but i’s fun to watch them go in,” Huffman said. “It’s a whole different kind of feeling.”

Huffman may be slowing down physically, but he doesn’t have any immediate plans of slowing down on the golf course.

“I’ll enjoy it until I can’t,” he said. “I have a couple of friends that have five hole-in-ones and I’d like to catch up to them.”