Missing Gilmer County golf pro found

Missing Gilmer County golf pro found

ATLANTA -- After thirty days a man who had "fallen off the face of the earth", according to his family, has been found. Cobb County native Robby Cole, age 46, is at Grady Hospital according to his brother.Robby Cole made a reputation as a golf pro. Five years ago he was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, according to his brother Clete Cole lessons drills. His brother said Robby would call family and friends multiple times a day until February 12th when the calls stopped.For the next 30 days family and friends searched streets, hospitals and homeless shelters but no one reported seeing Robby. They even set up a Facebook page Tiger Woods Will be Joined by Reigning U.S. Open Champ. "When he quit calling I honestly thought he was no longer alive," said Clete Cole.On St. Patrick's Day a passerby found a man lying in the middle of an Atlanta street. The passerby called 911 and the responding paramedic recognized Robby. "The paramedic apparently had joined Robby's Facebook page and had joined it the day before," Clete Cole said.Clete Cole said his brother is fine physically but he doesn't remember much about what happened. "We're hoping to get him back mentally," he said. "Now that he's been found he does have a chance to have a life again.""It's hard to think about what could have happened, what might have happened that he can't remember," Cole said. "The weather, it was so cold."Clete Cole said he wants to meet the passerby who found his brother and the paramedic who recognized him. "There's obviously bad people out there in the world, but there's a lot of good people in Atlanta," he said. "People really stepped up."Cole said it gives him hope, where he had none before.