Skidmore College Men's Golf

Tom Oppedisano was named as the head coach of the Skidmore College golf program in the spring of 2015. With Oppedisano at the helm, Skidmore came from behind to win the 2015 and 2016 Liberty League championships. It was the eighth and ninth Liberty League and 18th overall UCAA/Liberty League title for the Thoroughbreds, who played in the program's 29th NCAA tournament. In the 2016-2017 season, Oppedisano and the Thoroughbreds broke into the upper echelon of the golfstat.com national rankings, landing in the top-20 for the first time since 2013. Skidmore finished 17th in the final golfstat.com poll of the season, 19th in the GCAA final national poll, and was the top-ranked team in the Northeast region in the NCAA polls. Senior Mackenzie Nelson became the 30th All-American in program history, and the first for Oppedisano as a head coach. Oppedisano was Thoroughbred assistant coach from 2013 to 2015. He took over the program on an interim basis in the spring of 2015, leading the team to the Liberty League championship and a return trip to the NCAA Division III championships. He was named the head coach in June 2015. In 2016, his first full season, Oppedisano was named the GCAA Northeast Coach of the Year. He has also earned four Horton Smith awards for contributions to PGA education and received a NENY PGA Section Teacher of the Year award in 2007. In 2022, Oppedisano coached the Liberty League individual champion Kevin McGough, who was later named an All-America Honorable Mention. Oppedisano's background as a local PGA head golf professional has helped him forge solid relationships with the region's best facilities, including Saratoga National GC, Saratoga State Park GC, Saratoga Golf & Polo Club, Ballston Spa CC, and Hiland Park GC.   Regarded as one of the region's top players, he has multiple NENY PGA Section Tour wins, and finds himself annually on the top-10 Player of the Year lists.   A 1992 graduate of Clemson University, Oppedisano began his golf career at the Ballston Spa Country Club and spent a season on the Tommy Armour Tour.  

Scott Berliner joined the Skidmore College men's golf staff in September 2015. In his first season, Berliner helped the Thoroughbreds as they came from behind to win the 2016 Liberty League Championship. It was the ninth Liberty League and 18th overall UCAA/Liberty League title for the Thoroughbreds who played in the program's 29th NCAA tournament. In 2016-2017, Berliner and the Thoroughbreds broke into the upper echelon of the golfstat.com national rankings, landing in the top-20 for the first time since 2013. Skidmore finished 17th in the final golfstat.com poll of the season, 19th in the GCAA final national poll, and was the top-ranked team in the Northeast region in the NCAA polls. Senior Mackenzie Nelson became the 30th All-American in program history, and the first since 2013. Berliner is a well-decorated PGA professional, winning six consecutive NENY PGA Player of the Year awards from 2011-2016, and nine NENY PGA Assistant Player of the Year honors (2007-2012, 2014, 2015, 2016). He is the all-time leading Major winner in the NENY PGA. Berliner is currently an Assistant Golf Professional at the Hiland Golf Club in Queensbury, N.Y., a position he's held since April 2015. He also served as an assistant golf pro at McGregor Links Country Club in 2014.