POLAND – Not that he’s afraid of good fortune, but Cacy Cantwell couldn’t bring himself to look.

“I didn’t even want to get up there and do it,” Cantwell said. “The guy I was playing with, he went and looked for me.”

Cantwell, 33, of Poland waited anxiously at the front of the green on the sixth hole at Summit Golf Course while Martin Noyes, his playing partner by accident, strode over to the pin. There in the bottom of the cup was a 28-year-old golf ball he had found that day, the kind with the deep dimples and rubber-like feel. It was the ball Cantwell had just hit off the tee at the 196-yard hole.

“That hole, you have to play it up the left side, and it usually bounces onto the green from there,” Cantwell said.

He would know. His hole-in-one earlier this month was his second in less than 30 days.

On the same hole.

With the same 4-iron.

“I really couldn’t believe it,” he said.

Noyes, meanwhile, had stumbled upon the second shot by accident. Playing behind Cantwell, Noyes was on the fifth green when Cantwell teed off. Seeing the ball disappear, Noyes asked to hit alongside Cantwell, and was as eager, if not more so, as Cantwell to get to the green to see whether the ball had actually gone in.

It had.

On Aug. 14, Cantwell had been playing with Dave Seeley. He pulled out his trusty 4-iron and then, too, found the bottom of the hole.

This shot-making from a golfer who nearly quit the game three years ago.

“I remember, I got a hole-in-one on the eighth hole at Paris Hill, finished that round and didn’t play again for a long time,” Cantwell said. “I started playing again two summers ago.”

Three times, Cantwell has scored a hole-in-one. He has played golf for five years.

According to Bill Leonard Jr., Summit’s owner, Cantwell was at the course religiously this summer, working on his game.

“He’s always out here,” Leonard said. “He’s one of our regulars now.”

Cantwell, meanwhile, still wonders if there is some way he can parlay his luck on that sixth hole into a little bit of extra cash.

“I keep telling myself I need to find a way to buy a Megabucks ticket by phone next time I’m on that hole,” he said. “It’s worth a try.”