The 35th Annual Glenn T. Packard Golf Tournament has been scheduled for Friday August 14, 2026, at Crestview Country club. For more than a third of a century, this tournament has benefited Suffield’s student athletes and community. Raising over $800,000 in the past 34 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 and a continental breakfast will begin at 8 a.m. The Shotgun tournament begins promptly at 9 a.m. Lunch will be provided at the end of the round. 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.”
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. Thus, the reason to switch to the new name of: Suffield Rotary Memorial Golf Tournament.
Four ways to get involved:
1. Email Paul Muska @ muskafamily425@gmail.com to request a registration form or become a sponsor
2. GTP 2026 Team Registration form
3. 2026 GTP Suffield Rotary Golf Tourney Sponsorship form
4. Visit https://portal.clubrunner.ca/6939