ONEONTA – Once upon a time, I played on the Norwich High School golf team. My freshman through junior years, we played our matches in the spring until eventually moving to fall golf my senior year where we joined the rest of the Southern Tier Athletic Conference schools.

Those first three years, we played as an independent team against other spring golf teams such as Oxford, Sidney, Afton, and Oneonta. That last team was the only like-sized school we faced in the spring, and we had yearly home and home matches with the Yellowjackets. My last match against Oneonta was in 1984, and that was also the last time I played Oneonta Country Club.

Thirty years later, I returned to OCC as the final part of our summer golf series. After a one-week hiatus, Mike McCormack rejoined us, and Mike invited two other NHS grads – neither of whom played on the golf team with me – Kevin Perez and John Williams.