Anyone who has played golf knows how difficult it is to get a ball on the green. Even those who have played for years never achieve a hole-in-one.

Clive Guthrie, who works at Lismore Base Hospital as wardsman and licensed security officer, has now hit his sixth hole-in-one at Lismore Workers Golf Club, his fourth at the club itself.

With his trusted six iron, the 61-year-old achieved the remarkable feat on the fifth hole with his regular playing partners Murray Edwards, Daryl Riley and Neil Harris.

"It must have been travelling as i heard it hit the flagstick and drop in. It does not matter how they go in," Guthrie said.

He recalled with ease the years he had previously achieved a hole-in-one - the 11th hole at Lismore Workers Golf Club in 1997, at Yamba Golf Club in 2005, the 5th hole at Lismore Workers Golf Club in 2007, the 16th hole at Lismore Workers Golf Club in 2009 and at Pacific Harbour Golf Course on Bribie Island, Moreton Bay, Queensland, in 2012.

Guthrie plays off an 11 handicap and said he had been a member of Lismore Workers Golf Club since the eighties.

"It is a very difficult course and my father-in-law told me that if you can play Lismore you can play anywhere.

"Its full of hills and slopes and the greens are small. It takes some mastering."

Guthrie won this year's Tuesday Veterans Matchplay Championship at Lismore Workers Golf Club.