Supergolfpro Saves Drowning Van Driver After Possible Suicide Attempt

Hats off to Josh Gardner who whilst giving a lesson at Canyon Meadows Golf and Country Club noticed a minivan careering down the hill and vaulting into a pond.

The head pro quickly instructed his pupils "to stand a bit closer to the ball and ease off that right hand a touch" before running to the water hazard and diving in to save the stricken minivan driver.



“I heard a bang and then I saw it go airborne, through the air, right into the middle of the pond,” Gardner told the Calgary Sun.
“He wasn’t responding so I just made the choice to go into the water,” he said.
“(The minivan) started to go down, I could see the water level rising in it.”
“I swam in through the driver’s side window and got his seatbelt off,” he said.
“The water was coming in strong, it was up to his chest.”

Gardner successfully freed the driver and managed to get him the 20 metres back to the shore.

Attention then turned to the small matter of what caused the driver to decide to drive his van onto a golf course, gun it down a steep hill and straight into the pond.

Police are looking into the possibility of it being a suicide attempt.

But for now Gardner is being hailed as a hero. The driver is safe and the students are hitting nice consistent fades.

“I didn’t think twice, I just knew he was going down and someone had to get in the water and help him.”
“It’s a great feeling (to have helped save him), but I just did what anybody would do.
“It was an emotional day, but it was a best case scenario for that situation.”


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