Pro turns medic when golfer has heart attack at Wood Dale course

By Jake Griffin

Bryan Lindstrom never envisioned using a golf cart as an ambulance.

"We actually fix the carts to make them slower so they won't be that dangerous," the assistant golf pro at Maple Meadows Golf Course in Wood Dale said. "So it felt like an eternity driving up to the fourth hole that day. I'm sure it was a lot faster than what it felt like."

Last month Lindstrom was ringing up a customer in the pro shop when someone called to report that a golfer was suffering a heart attack on the course. Lindstrom said he immediately remembered there was an automated external defibrillator at the bar, so he grabbed that and headed to the fallen golfer while another worker called paramedics.

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