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A good walk shared: D.J. Gregory making strides alongside PGA Tour stars

by Bob Young
  • Slug: Sports-Golf-Phoenix Open walker, about 1300 words.
  • Photos available.

By Christopher Gleason
Cronkite News

SCOTTSDALE – Born 10 weeks premature, D.J. Gregory has had 11 surgeries in his lifetime, five on his legs and six on his eyes. One of those involved having the abductor muscles in his legs cut, leaving Gregory without the ability to balance.

As a result, he went from army crawling on his stomach around the house as a child, to using a walker, then using two canes. Such is the life of someone who has cerebral palsy, a congenital disorder of movement, muscle tone or posture.

Now at 42 Gregory needs just one cane. And does it ever get a lot of use.

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