Disabled military veteran Chris Sorrentino recovered his golf clubs the day after a story ran in the Journal-World detailing how they had been stolen from him at a local course. Someone had dropped the clubs off at a Lawrence police station.

Well, that didn’t take long.

A day after a story ran in the Journal-World detailing the theft of disabled military veteran Chris Sorrentino’s golf clubs, he had them back in his possession.

Oddly enough, the clubs had shown up at a Lawrence police station before the story was even published.

Sorrentino was playing in a golf league Wednesday night at Alvamar Golf & Country Club, the scene of the March 13 theft, alongside a Lawrence police officer when he brought up the story of his clubs being stolen. The officer said he had seen a golf bag sitting in the police station lobby the other day. Sorrentino later called the police evidence department and found out the clubs were his. He picked them up Friday morning.

After the story came out Thursday, Sorrentino received an outpouring of support from members of the community; people offered to give him their old clubs or even buy him a new set. Before they could, however, he was already on the way to getting his back.

“It was really wonderful — the comments on the website and people reaching out,” he said. “I was very impressed with the response to the article.”

Unfortunately, some items with sentimental value were missing from the bag — bag tags from St. Andrews golf club in Scotland and a hole-in-one game from the mid-1990s — as were some change, golf balls and keys. But the clubs were all there, including an original Ping putter Sorrentino has had since high school.

Police, meanwhile, plan to check their security cameras to see who may have dropped off the clubs. As for Sorrentino, he went straight from picking up his clubs to — you guessed it — the golf course.