WINDSOR – I was looking over the scorecard after playing 18 holes of golf this past Wednesday, and upon some quick reflection, I realized that my actually golfing would play a minor role in this article.

Perhaps more than any course we have reviewed, the story of Golden Oak Golf Course goes beyond the happenings within the fairways.

It's a layered story in which majority owners Rebecca Ellsworth and Ken Ellsworth threw themselves a midlife curveball by purchasing the course. It's a story of superintendent and course manager, Jack Gill Jr., living the American dream by working himself up the ladder from laborer to part owner. And lastly, it's the story of longtime members who willingly volunteer their time, not at the behest of ownership, but just because.

To those who call Golden Oak their home course, it is the social epicenter of a rural area on Route 79, three miles south of Windsor – and just seven miles north of the Pennsylvania border.

After enlisting my GPS to get me to the course, I arrived a few minutes ahead of my tee time, and was greeted in the parking lot by a nice gentleman. He asked me if I was the reporter writing the story about the course. I said, "yes, are you one of the owners?"

He told me no, but "Becky (Ellsworth) was in the clubhouse, and was expecting me."