A golfer in Oregon is being called incredibly lucky after a peaceful day on the course turned into a nightmare when a bolt of lightning struck him while he was holding his club.

The terrifying incident happened around 2:47 p.m. on Saturday, June 27, at The Oregon Golf Club in West Linn, where the unidentified man had been playing alone as a sudden storm rolled in.

Within moments, the quiet round of golf became a life-or-death emergency.

According to reports citing Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue, the man remembered holding his club — and then everything went black.

“He stated that he recalled holding the club, but from there doesn’t recall much,” Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue Captain Ryan Stenhouse said, according to KGW.

The lightning strike knocked the golfer unconscious. When he came to, he somehow managed to call the Oregon Golf Club pro shop on Pete’s Mountain Road for help.

The pro shop immediately called 911.

Emergency crews raced to the course and found the man alive, but injured and badly shaken after the rare and frightening strike.

Officials said he suffered one entry wound and two exit wounds from the lightning. He was rushed to the burn center at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center in Portland, where he was listed in stable condition.

First responders made it clear the golfer’s survival was remarkable.

“Shaken, scared, nervous as you can imagine,” Stenhouse said of the man’s condition after the incident.

Even for veteran emergency crews, the call was unusual.

“I gotta be honest, this is the first time I’ve been on a lightning strike. So it’s new to all of us — pretty uncommon,” Stenhouse told Fox 12. “To have an individual struck and to be in the condition that he was in, you know, is remarkable.”

Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue public information officer Stefan Myers said the outcome could have been far worse.

“A call like this, given the amount of electricity that’s coming from a lightning strike, oftentimes can be fatal, if not extremely damaging,” Myers told the West Linn Tidings. “We’re extremely grateful that this individual was transported in stable condition.”

The lightning strike came as heavy rain and thunderstorms moved across Northwest Oregon, catching the golfer off guard while he was alone in an open area.

Although lightning strikes the ground millions of times each year in the United States, a person’s odds of being hit are less than one in a million, according to the CDC.

But officials warned that rare does not mean impossible — especially on a golf course, where a person can quickly become the tallest object in a wide-open space.

“In this case, the individual was caught off guard,” Myers said. “Generally, you want to seek cover, whether that’s in something that has rubber tires or indoors, but you definitely want to try and get out of wide open spaces where you are the tallest point, and clearly also when you’re golfing, to not have metal objects in your hand.”

The golfer’s name has not been publicly released.

For now, officials say they are simply grateful the terrifying afternoon did not become a tragedy.