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A caddie for an novice participant at the Pebble Beach Pro-Am is reportedly recovering after the caddie collapsed halfway by means of Friday’s second spherical and was given CPR earlier than being taken away by ambulance to a close-by hospital.
In a statement, the PGA Tour mentioned the caddie was working for one of many amateurs within the Max McGreevy-Beau Hossler pairing, whereas ESPN reporter Paolo Uggetti, who was at the occasion, wrote that the caddie was paired with businessman Geoff Couch. According to Uggetti, the incident occurred on the golf green on the eleventh gap at Pebble Beach, and play was stopped for almost an hour.
As of Friday evening, there was no quick replace on the caddie’s situation, although Golf Channel’s Todd Lewis, who was additionally at the match, twice reported through the community’s protection that the caddie was going to be OK. ESPN’s Uggetti additionally wrote that Lukas Nelson, a musician and the opposite novice within the group, informed him that the caddie was “doing better.”
According to Golf Channel’s Lewis and ESPN’s Uggetti, Hossler and McGreevy talked with Tour officers after the incident, and Lewis mentioned the gamers first moved to the facet, then had been allowed to go again to the locker room and end play after the final teams had been by means of. Hossler, Uggetti wrote, questioned the official through the dialog, saying: “I can’t say that I’m real comfortable at the moment to resume play.”
ESPN’s Uggetti reported that the Hossler and McGreevy group returned after a two-hour break.
At 5:01 p.m., the Tour shared this assertion:
“During the second round of the AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am, there was a medical emergency at No. 11 at Pebble Beach involving an amateur’s caddie. The caddie has been rushed to Montage Health for evaluation. At the direction of the PGA Tour Rules Committee, the players in that group — Max McGreevy and Beau Hossler — paused play during the medical emergency and will be allowed to warm up and resume their round shortly.”
After his spherical, Harry Higgs, who was two teams behind Hossler and McGreevy, mentioned that different gamers had been shaken. A reporter requested him if was reminded of an incident final month within the NFL, the place participant Damar Hamlin collapsed and acquired CPR throughout a recreation.
“Yeah. I mean, it had some shades of that,” Higgs mentioned. “I used to be standing on the tee. They appeared like they had been 250 yards away, perhaps even much less, 200 yards away, they usually had been hammering away CPR on the gentleman. So, yeah, in a means.
“It was bizarre. We teed off on 11, and as soon as I received up there and noticed the group that the caddie was in, they had been off to the facet they usually had been clearly very emotional. Hugging one another. I referred to as a guidelines official over and simply needed to like, Is this OK? I don’t need to be impolite and preserve going. It’s like golf doesn’t matter at all now, proper?
“And I suppose, thankfully, it didn’t occur in our group that we didn’t actually — after which at the time that I had requested that it was additionally voiced to us that issues have improved. The gentleman is almost certainly going to get better. So that clearly takes a weight off your shoulders.
“But yeah, I imply, it’s — I imply, we’ve, none of us have ever had to cope with that. No one within the NFL had ever had to cope with what occurred, what, six, seven weeks in the past. So there isn’t a playbook. There is nothing to do.
“In a way, I was worried that we were still going, but then at the same time, it’s like, all right, well, soldier on, keep going. I hope he’s OK. Fortunately, we did get some good news while we were on 11, which helped. I mean it was …”
A reporter then requested Higgs if a guidelines official talked to him.
“Yeah, I had seen one,” he mentioned. “I noticed the group off to the left and I noticed tees within the fairway. So clearly that they had marked their balls they usually had been ready. I had seen a guidelines official on the rope line and I needed to name him over and be like, Hey, man, I’m nice stopping if that is — like it is a very delicate, bizarre state of affairs.
“The group in entrance of us had performed the outlet and gotten again to 12 tee. So it appeared like they had been OK to proceed on. It was simply — I don’t need to say bizarre to, like, take any gravity away from the state of affairs, but it surely was only a bizarre state of affairs. Everybody, I believe everyone on property knew what had occurred and everyone was flat. There was no power, no juice on any of the holes coming in.
“And once more, thankfully — it was simply awkward too. Walking proper by means of that group and persevering with to play and, thankfully, I imply, me personally, selfishly, it saved my thoughts at ease that we had gotten some excellent news as I performed by means of that group principally.
“I don’t know. Maybe if it was not so excellent news — it was uncomfortable sufficient in a means that I might have seen myself being, like I’m not going to do that. Like it didn’t occur in my group, I didn’t get a firsthand account of something, however this doesn’t really feel proper. I’m not going to preserve going.
“Fortunately, we got some good news and kept going. I hope there’s more good news in the coming hours and days. Just a very difficult and kind of a first. Hopefully a last.”
