Photo: GivealittleEight golfers watched the helicopter lift off from the clubhouse, 200 metres away, and head towards them on the seventh hole. Little did the golfers know that the flight would last just moments, cover a short distance, and that they would be the ones who would run to their rescue. "It flew out over the seventh green and the eighth tee block and flew up the eighth fairway, just above the trees to the eighth fairway. They lost sight of the helicopter behind the trees as it flew up the eighth fairway and "didn't think anything more of it." "I didn't know what we would encounter," he said.

Source: Otago Daily Times July 06, 2021 19:30 UTC