Wheelchair bound athlete gets back on the golf course

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A Brantford woman who’s now wheelchair-bound after a debilitating car crash, reached out to a professional golf trick shot maker today- to get her back on the course. But what he did, was no trick.

Jessie Gregory has always been an athlete but for her to get back to the game of golf she needed the right coach

Jessie is the goalie for the Canadian National women’s sledge hockey team. Sports became an outlet for her after she lost the use of both her legs following a car crash in 2008.

While she’s also picked up basketball and tennis, there’s one sport she’s avoided since her injury – golf

“My dad got me playing when I was pretty young. Hitting the ball in the backyard and we played around with him at fun tournaments and stuff.”

Todd Keirstead isn’t your regular run-of-the-mill golf pro. When he isn’t teeing-off from various celebrity body parts, he uses his unique skills to coach people with various physical limitations to play the game he loves.

“I’m able to hit balls flacid on the right side, flacid on the left side, blindfolded, on my knees, out of a wheelchair. I even had a prosthetic leg built so i can put myself in their situations.”

These two one-of-a-kind personalities met at the Brantford Golf and Country club to get Jessie back on the course for the first time in seven years. For Jessie, it didn’t take long for her to figure it out.

“That felt amazing, that felt amazing, cause I haven’t hit the ball in a while.”

Jessie’s muscle memory even stunned her new coach “I was just like, ‘my day is done, this is the easiest that I’ve had.”

Now that she’s back in the swing of things, Jessie can’t wait for her next tee-time