The 5th Annual Shute-N-Safe Golf tournament to benefit The Tunnel to Towers Foundation, hosted by the Shute family of Suffield, was held on September 11, 2025 at Crestview Country Club in Agawam, Massachusetts. The weather couldn’t have been better. The course had a full complement of 144 golfers. As usual the tourney started with a group photo, a prayer for the fallen on 9/11 and a moment of silence for the recently assassinated Charlie Kirk. Last year, the tourney raised over $26.5K. This year, the tournament raised over $37K. In addition, an anonymous donor gave $100K to bring our grand total to $137K! The Shute family wants to thank all our golfers, volunteers, hole sponsors and corporate sponsors who made this event an overwhelming success.
Suffield Fire Department hoisting the American Flag over the golfers, volunteers and event organizers.
Special thanks to Suffield Fire and Police Departments, Chief Cunningham and Firefighters Kevin Seger, Justin Seger and Conner Fairchild for the ladder truck and time they spent with us. Chief Canon, Captain Palmer, Lt. Burrell and Jay Fontaine participated in the tournament as well as Terry Antrum, our past School Resource Officer. The town of Suffield is blessed to have such support from these members of our community.
Left to right LT. Ryan Burrell, Capt. Robert Palmer, Chief James Canon, Dan Deleon from Tunnel to Towers and Dave Shute event host.
One hundred percent of the proceeds from our outing benefit America’s heroes by providing mortgage-free homes to Gold Star and fallen first responder families with young children and by building specially adapted smart homes for catastrophically injured veterans and first responders. We are also committed to eradicating veteran homelessness and helping America to never forget September 11, 2001.