From The Edmonton Sun - July 6, 2007:

EXCITEMENT TEES OFF AT GOLF COURSE

By BROOKES MERRITT, SUN MEDIA

Forget the weatherman's blabbering about near record heat waves, duffers at the Golden West Golf Course witnessed a true rarity yesterday.

Two staff members must have set some sort of record after one banged home a 326-yard hole-in-one albatross at the same time his buddy was helping save a woman's life on another fairway.

The excitement unfolded around 5:30 p.m. on the eighth and 15th holes of the course at 16410 137 Ave.

Kitchen staffer Ryan Clark, 16, made crisp contact with his ball on the eighth tee.

"I couldn't see where it landed, but a group of people we were golfing with were up the fairway and watched it go in," said the teen, who began taking golf seriously last year, after potting a hole-in-one on a par three at JR Golf Course in St. Albert.

Clark was so focused on his tee shot that the sound of a nearing ambulance siren didn't distract him.

Little did he know the ambulance was rushing to attend to a woman suffering anaphylactic shock.

She'd been stung by a bee near the 15th green and was being attended to by Clark's co-worker and friend, Julian Hare, 20, a marshal and starter at the golf course.

Luckily for the woman, Hare is also a military medic.

"I saw her get stung by the bee and she immediately started to swell up," Hare said.

The woman's throat swelled to the point she could no longer speak, but not before she told Hare her Epipen - an adrenaline autoinjector - was in the clubhouse.

"I got her into the golf cart and it was a four-minute drive to the clubhouse. She was looking rough and when we got there she couldn't speak."

Hare stabbed her thigh with the Epipen and within 30 seconds the swelling began to subside.

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