The 34th Annual Glenn T. Packard Golf Tournament has been scheduled for Friday August 8, 2025, at Oak Ridge Golf Course. For more than a quarter of a century, this tournament has benefited Suffield’s student athletes and community. Raising over $800,000 in the past 33 years, these proceeds have provided construction of the “Rotary Hut” at SHS, new Little League batting cages, Athletic Field Emergency Defibrillators, baseball and softball dugouts at SHS; Babb’s Beach improvements; the PTO Playscape, a scoreboard for the SHS swim team, the Lacrosse scoreboard, a track timing system at SHS and much more.
Registration will start at 7:30 a.m. with a continental breakfast at 8 a.m. The Shotgun tournament begins promptly at 9 a.m. Lunch will be provided on the course. At the end of the “golf day” there will be an hour of open bar and appetizers, followed by a brief ceremony and selection of raffle prizes.
The tournament honors Glenn T. Packard, the son of Warren and Flo Packard. Glenn grew up in Suffield where he was an outstanding three-sport (soccer, basketball, and baseball) athlete at Suffield High. He was an All-State player on the state championship soccer team in 1978. Moreover, by all accounts he was as great a person in high school as he was an athlete, displaying maturity and compassion for others well beyond that typically demonstrated at that age. After attending the University of Notre Dame, Glenn returned to his hometown and, with his wife Sandy, began to raise his new family, with daughters Marissa and Rachel and son Colin. True to his values, he was a volunteer coach for soccer and basketball and volunteered assisting inner-city children.
In 1992, at the age of 31, Glenn was tragically killed in a fluke motor vehicle accident on I-91. Within weeks, his long-time friends Mark and Karlene Sullivan decided that his life needed to be memorialized. They created a foundation in Glenn’s name and started a golf tournament to raise funds for it. The objective was, is, and has always been, “to enhance the quality of educational sports and recreational programs in the community” and “… to achieve these goals by employing the integrity, determination, enthusiasm and charitable spirit that Glenn demonstrated throughout his life.”
Suffield Rotary is proud to announce that Windsor Federal Bank will be the Title Sponsor for the 34th Annual Glenn T. Packard Memorial Golf Tournament. Windsor Federal Bank continues to give back to many events in Suffield. They are our hometown bank. The tournament fundraising efforts are well underway and so is the registration. We thank our other key sponsors, Dowd Realty Group, Mark Sullivan and Chris Noe, Paul and Amy Muska, Gordon and Ann Stagg, Jack and Maryanne Muska, Jay and Joanne Presser, for their long-standing support of the tournament. Our biggest supporter has been Mrs. Flo Packard and the entire Packard family.
What started as a simple conversation many years ago by Glenn’s brother Rob and his friends blossomed into the annual tournament. Mr. and Mrs. Packard were concerned about a one and done tournament. We think that concern has been put to bed.
Every year this tournament marks a time in the summer for many Suffield High School alumni to get together and reconnect with classmates, teammates and former teachers and administrators. Mr. C still remembers many of us who walked the halls of Suffield High School. As the years have moved on, we have lost teachers and fellow classmates but the tournament goes on, not just in Glenn’s name but in the names and memories of all that have followed him to the great golf course.
Please call or email Paul Muska (860-966-2825 or muskafamily425@gmail.com) to request a registration form or become a sponsor, or visit https://portal.clubrunner.ca/6939