The most unusual round of golf I ever had was in 2009 on a course outside Baltimore just off I-95. I went in the pro shop about 1pm as a single and was paying when a man entered with two chocolate brown Labrador Retrievers. The employee said 'no dogs allowed'. The man with the dogs said they are my service dogs and I can show you papers that will allow me to bring the dogs in here and with me on the course.
I ended being paired with this golfer. He had been in Myrtle Beach earlier on sales calls and was on his way home to Westchester, NY. The interstate was backed up, so he checked his GPS for a golf course and found The Wetlands. The dogs were trained to alert the man prior to having a seizure. They would somehow know when this was going to happen and would alert the man.
The dogs rode in the golf cart with the fellow. One on the seat and the other on the floor, they were big dogs, probably 75 pounds. They never presented any problems and the round of golf went like many others. Sometimes they would leave the cart and walk around. Once they went into the woods, he said they probably smelled an animal. Anyway, he yelled something and they ran right back to the cart. We finished the round and the man jumped into his car and went on to finish his drive to New York.
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