Larry Hart’s got a philosophy about golf.

“Don’t worry about it. Just hit it,” he said. “That’s the best you can do.”

Few can do it as well as the retired teacher and coach and now he’s got another golf ball to add to a fine collection.

Hart made a hole-in-one during a round Oct. 20 at Kingfisher Golf Couse.

Using an 8-iron from the white tees on the 129-yard seventh hole, Hart didn’t worry about it.

He just hit it. “I felt like it was headed in the direction of the hole,” he said. “The pin was in the back and the ball hit about 2 feet onto the front edge of the green.

“Then it just shot straight to the hole, hit the flag stick and went in.”

It’s the fifth ace in Hart’s golfing career and second at Kingfisher.

“They’re fun to get,” Hart said. “But as much as I’ve played, I’d think I’d have had more by now.”

••• Hart has been golfing for more than seven decades.

His father worked in the oilfield and when Hart was 5 years old, the company his father worked for turned a pasture in Eunice, N.M., into a golf course.

“Another kid and I would be out catching golf balls with our baseball gloves and then we’d throw them back,” Hart said.

“And then we started hitting them back.”

He was hooked. Now he’s 79. “I don’t get to play as much as I used to,” said Hart.

But he still does it well. A badge of honor in golf is to be able to shoot lower than your age.

It doesn’t become feasible until the mid- to late-60s for most, but that’s also when skills can decline.

His hole-in-one last month - witnessed by Jerry Shilling and Ken Leedy, with whom Hart was playing - wasn’t a lucky shot.

It was part of a day in which he shot 74, which is just 4-over-par at Kingfi sher.

And that wasn’t a lucky round.

“I’ve got a stack of scorecards about 4 to 5 inches thick I started collecting about a decade ago,” said Hart.

That stack is all the rounds in which he’s shot his age or better.

Hart said his fourth holein- one at Kingfisher happened about two years ago on the 16th hole.

The others came on different courses and dated further back - some by decades.

“Every one of them has their own story,” he said.