Call it a fluke, miraculous or destiny, but a young Niagara-on-the-Lake golfer made a shot last week that almost no one else apparently has managed.

As darkness was descending last Tuesday, Ethan Peters teed it up on the 300-yard, par-4 seventh at the NOTL Golf Club — and knocked it in the hole.

Except nobody knew it. At first.

Peters, who spent the summer working on the patio at the club, was enjoying a day off with friends from work when he launched his way into the record books.

The seventh hole is a dogleg left and runs along the shore of Lake Ontario. Between the tee and the green, massive trees mark the corner where the fairway bends left toward a tricky, two-tiered green.

Hit the ball too far and you can land over the embankment and on the shoreline. Hit it short and you can be in the trees or one of the greenside bunkers.

Most players just send the ball straight down to the corner and hit a short iron into the green.

But when you’re 19 and full of energy, you go for it.

That’s what Peters did.

A lefty, the second-year Brock University student carved his shot about 280 yards over the trees from the white tees and lost sight of it.

It had a bit of a slice action so the ball was moving right to left, and could have ended up in the lake, depending on how hard it landed on the green.

“I thought it was going in the water,” the Virgil teenager said. “It came down on the other side of the trees and we couldn’t see it.”

When they got to the green, they searched high and low. Couldn’t find it.

But nobody looked in the hole — until Peters dropped another one, aiming to just finish off. He figured his original had gone out of bounds.

That’s when he looked in the hole and found his ball, a TaylorMade TP5.

“It was amazing,” the second-year forensic psychology and criminal justice student said.

“We were all celebrating and jumping around.”

By then, it was too dark to continue, so they headed in to the clubhouse for a small celebration followed by a trip to the casino in Niagara Falls.

Mom and dad, Jason and Lori, his two older sisters and his grandparents were all ecstatic when they heard the news.

Peters, who has been playing for about 11 years, said he doesn’t play often enough to keep track of his handicap, though he typically plays bogey golf.

He said he just tries to have fun and not take it too seriously.

So, has there ever been a hole-in-one on the seventh before? Apparently not.

Plenty of big hitters have reached the green from the tee and many have made an eagle 2.

Former NOTL club pro Billy Simkin and assistant pro Ricky Watson recalled one instance many years ago when a player hit his first shot into the lake and then knocked his next shot into the hole — for a birdie 3.

Longtime former club champion Mark Derbyshire knows the story.

“I made the green a number of times when I was younger. I never got a hole in one on seven, though,” he told The Lake Report.

However, “a number of years ago, Scott Bratton hit a ball in the lake and then knocked it in the hole from the tee for a birdie.”

So, whether a fluke, miracle or destiny, Peters is in the record books now for having aced one of the tougher holes on the NOTL course.