Back at the turn of the millennium, Skaneateles High School graduate Tom Scherrer was making a national name as a PGA Tour winner and participant in golf’s biggest events, including the Masters and United States Open. His accomplishments have not been forgotten, either, as it was announced on Thursday that Scherrer is one of six honorees for the Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame’s Class of 2015. When the Hall of Fame induction dinner takes place Oct. 19 at Drumlins Country Club, Scherrer, who now lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, joins a group that includes Fayetteville-Manlius cross country coach Bill Aris, basketball greats Marty Headd, Ormie Spencer and Joan Thornton and long-time Syracuse University administrator Barbara Adams Henderson. Though always a star on the golf course, Scherrer first found glory on the ice rink at Skaneateles, where he captained the Lakers to the 1989 state Division II championship. A storied amateur career followed, ranging from a fourth-place NCAA championship finish to a victory as part of the United States team in the 1991 Walker Cup at Portmarnock in Ireland to a run all the way to the 1992 U.S. Amateur final at Muirfield Village in Ohio. Scherrer lost that final to Justin Leonard, but by reaching the final he had earned an invitation to the 1993 Masters, if he stayed an amateur. But Scherrer decided to turn pro, beginning a long and fruitful journey that would finally bring him to Augusta National nearly a decade later. Winning for the first time on the Nike (now Web.com) Tour in 1995, Scherrer prevailed again in 1998 and graduated to the PGA Tour, where from 1999 to 2002 he won more than $2 million, culminating in his victory in the 2000 Kemper Open – with Leonard, ironically, as one of the runners-up. So in 2001, Scherrer had his long-delayed Masters debut. He shot two rounds of 71 to make the cut, added a 70 in the third round and, in the final round, overcame a double bogey on 11 and a bogey on 12 with an eagle-par-birdie-birdie-par-birdie finish that put him, at 285, alone in 25th place. Scherrer’s best finish in a major came in 1999, when he tied for 23rd in the U.S. Open at Pinehurst No. 2 in North Carolina. His last professional victory came in 2007 in the Price Cutter Championship on the Web.com Tour, though he has stayed involved in golf through rules officiating.