Golfer and Caddie Team Up to Help Save a Life at LPGA Event

A paramedic said a golfer and caddie might have saved the life of a heart attack victim Friday at the LPGA Jamie Farr Toledo Classic.

Raymond Henzler, 63, of Point Place, was lying in a fairway adjacent to the seventh green at Highland Meadows Golf Club when Tara Fleming spotted him while walking toward a bunker where her ball had landed.

She and Jason Hamilton, the caddie for Alicia Dibos, who was playing in her group, raced to Henzler.

Fleming started chest compression and Hamilton performed mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on Henzler.

Fleming said she worked on Henzler for eight to 10 minutes before other help arrived.

“Her making an effort to do CPR probably gave him the chance to survive this,” paramedic Russell Brown said.

Henzler was listed in serious but stable condition Friday afternoon.

“I just reacted to a situation,” said Fleming, who shot a 74. “It’s not a question. You just go out and do those things.”