A Chippewa County man and his metal detector solved a decades-old class ring mystery.

Tom Welch says while he was an employee at the Ojibwa Golf Course he found this Chi High class ring from 1959. He said it was about an inch under ground. It took a closer look, but he saw the initials T.C. That's when he started tracking down the class of '59. One of the alumns got out his yearbook and found two men with those initials. The first T.C. had his ring stolen in Japan, which left Tom Cutsforth, who lives in Denton, Texas now.

When Cutsforth heard the news, he couldn't believe it and was elated to know Welch was sending it to him.

Welch says the owner had given up on finding the ring and hadn't thought about it for 40 years. He said he only wore it a year and lost it golfing in 1960.