Sometimes the golf gods just know better.

When Virgil’s Matt Milne swung his gap wedge, sending his ball toward the pin on the par-3 fourth hole at the Niagara-on-the-Lake Golf Club, he thought he’d hit a lousy shot.

“Ah, I think I chunked it,” he shouted to his wife Natasha and two playing partners.

Except he didn’t. The ball sailed 109 yards from the white tees directly toward the hole — and in.

That triggered a celebration, as he hugged his wife and high-fived the players they’d been paired with, club members A.J. Harlond and Mark Harris.

Milne, 34, has been playing since he was a teenager and it was his first hole-in-one. He and his wife both work in marketing and play regularly at NOTL and Legends in Niagara Falls.

They hope to join the NOTL club soon.

His wife Natasha, 33, described the Aug. 6 ace.

“The thunder was rumbling as we walked up the long third fairway. We pushed through, hoping the impending storm system would die down,” she told The Lake Report.

With the skies darkening, his shot landed just beyond a large front bunker and “rolled calmly into the bottom of the cup.”

The clubhouse staff blew the weather horn immediately afterward, “marking the abrupt end to a fantastic, special round.”

Reflecting on the occasion, her husband noted, “It was beautiful. Watching the ball drop is a moment I will never forget. To do it at NOTL, in the club’s 150th year, makes it even more perfect.”

The couple moved to NOTL from downtown Toronto last June.

“We quickly fell in love with the area, the people, the food … and the golf,” he added.

“It’s everything we wanted and so much more. A far cry from the chaos of King and Bathurst.”