Woman in coma after saving major champion's son from rip current

A pistillate is successful a coma aft redeeming a 6-year-old lad from a riptide successful Florida.

The lad happens to beryllium the lad of 2023 Open Championship victor Brian Harman, and the woman, Cathy Dowdy, is simply a household friend.

Harman had gone to the Macao Open past period erstwhile his woman took their children and household person Dowdy to Ponte Vedra Beach, for a vacation. 

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Brian Harman connected time 4 of the Presidents Cup astatine The Royal Montreal Golf Club connected Sept. 29, 2024, successful Quebec, Canada. (Vaughn Ridley/Getty Images)

Harman said his lad was connected a boogie committee erstwhile helium was ripped retired to oversea by a rip current.

Dowdy went into the water aft the kid but couldn’t scope him and began to conflict successful the abnormally beardown current. Harman said different man, Crane Cantrell, saw what was happening and went successful to help.

"He makes it retired fine, Cathy (is) injured truly severely successful the water," Harman said Tuesday astatine the RSM Classic. "She’s been successful a coma for going connected six weeks present and truthful evidently our satellite down present was benignant of turned connected its head."

The St. Johns Citizen reported a lifeguard pulled Dowdy from the h2o and performed life-saving measures until aesculapian assistance arrived.

Brian Harman tees disconnected astatine the 151st Open astatine Royal Liverpool Golf Club connected July 23, 2023, successful Hoylake, England. (Warren Little/Getty Images)

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"I don’t truly cognize what I wanted to benignant of accidental different than I wanted to usage immoderate level I person to bring consciousness to what Cathy did, what Crane did," Harman said earlier this week. "They disregarded themselves, went into the water, saved my lad and however bash you convey radical similar that? I don’t cognize different than to conscionable accidental what you think.

"I deliberation that bravery and doing thing similar that for radical who aren’t your humor is conscionable the astir beauteous happening you tin bash successful this life."

Brian Harman connected the 9th spread during time 4 of the 151st Open astatine Royal Liverpool Golf Club connected July 23, 2023. (Jared C. Tilton/Getty Images)

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Harman won The Open past year, which got him a motion onto that year's Ryder Cup team. He besides appeared connected this year's' Presidents Cup team.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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