MONTROSE, Mich. (WXYZ) -- Life can change in an instant.
Terry Ramin is about to take on the world's best golfers in a longest drive competition in Knoxville. And he can smash the ball - with just one leg - but he does it knowing he's lucky to be alive.
"I had a two percent chance to live. It wasn't growing back, so there's no sense of sitting whining about it. So it was just pick up the pieces and move on," Ramin recalled. "There was never a question I was going to play golf again, ever."
Being a paraplegic golfer has taken Ramin around the world playing the game he loves, while spreading the word that there is no obstacle, great or small, that can stop someone from achieving their goals.
And Ramin isn't alone. The network of disabled golfers is growing.
"Going to some of these disabled tournaments and amputee tournaments I play in, I can get it out there, 320, 350 on a good one. I'm a 290 guy but I have a one arm guy, playing with one arm, out-driving me with a 3-wood. It's pretty humbling," Ramin added.
For Ramin, the Long Drive contest is just for fun. His real goal is to make golf part of the Paralympics, and it's well on its way.
"We'll have blind players and paraplegic and quadriplegics and multiple different amputations playing, people with MD and MS getting out there. If we can just inspire one person to get out and believe, and know they can do things, and they don't have to sit home, they can get out and make a difference." Ramin added. "That's the goal right there."
