A Durham guy wins a big jackpot recently in scratch off lottery game

A golf outing that never happened turned into another kind of stroke of luck for a Durham man.

James Murry of Durham said his plan for that day involved playing golf but he changed his mind at the last minute. He bought a scratch-off ticket instead and became $1 million richer.

"I really wasn't even supposed to be in that store that day," Murry said. "I guess the ticket was just sitting there waiting for me."

Murry of Durham said he checked his scratch-off ticket again and again on Thursday to make sure what he saw was real.

"I'm sitting there doing double, triple, quadruple takes," Murry told NC Lottery officials with a laugh. "I just looked at it and looked at it and looked at it."