Bob Ross wasn’t enjoying any happy little trees as he played the first three holes during his golf league last week at Mt. Odin Park.

Not many courses open with three par 5s.

“I wasn’t playing too well,” Ross said. “I think I was two over par going to No. 4. I’m 77 years old. Every year, I lose 5 yards.”

But Ross, a Greensburg resident, played on with no hint he was about to record not one but two holes-in-one.

The odds were certainly against him getting two aces in one 18-hole round — the National Hole-in-One Registry pegs it at 67 million to 1 — yet the retired controller at William House of Pennsylvania in Scottdale accomplished the feat with holes-in-one on Nos. 4 and 11, both par 3s.

Now the talk of the Monday night White Horse Golf League, Ross is a modest A-flighter who called his achievement “lucky.”

“Disbelief,” he said. “My kids put it up on Facebook. My son announced it at church. I guess I got my 15 minutes (of fame).”

Bill Vaneslow runs the golf league with Ross and has been his close friend for 40 years.

“I’m extremely happy for him,” Vaneslow said. “It couldn’t have happened to a better person. The league gave him a round of applause when he got to parking lot.”

Ross held up his end of the proverbial bargain, buying beverages for everyone in the 26-player league before they teed off this week.

His 9-iron tee shot on No. 4, which was playing 109 yards, hit in the center of the green and rolled toward a back-right pin.

“I always hit the same club there. I hit it and thought, ‘This has a chance,’” he said. “I hit it in the middle, and it started to roll up and went in. The tee is elevated there. It’s always nice when you can see it go in the hole.”

Then, still buzzing from his ace six holes earlier, he came to No. 11, a 146-yard straightaway par 3 with a mostly flat green and houses in the background.

“I grabbed my 25-degree rescue club,” Ross said. “I always use it on that hole. If I hit it right, it goes where I want it to. I hit it right at it but could not see where it landed.

“It wasn’t on the green when we got up there. I looked over the hill (behind the green) but no ball. I walked over and checked in the hole — it went in again. I yelled.”

A ranger drove by, and Ross told him about his double dip.

“He gave me a piece of paper and said to write down all of the information,” Ross said. “He couldn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe it. Something like that happens, nobody believes it. I mean, what do you say?”

Ross shot a 42 on the front nine and 43 on the back for an 85. He has four holes-in-one in his life, the last coming “when I was a kid” in Florida. He said the two golf balls will join the others on display at his home.

The league surprised him this week with an engraved plaque that has enclosures for both golf balls.

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