Joe Tiller NFF Chapter

The Tiller Chapter’s annual golf outing has taking on a different look and direction.

After several years as the Ryan Kerrigan/12th Boiler Golf Outing as a combined effort between the NFF’s Tiller Chapter and Purdue’s Trademarks Licensing Office, a new partnership became necessary. In the spring of 2020, the chapter agreed to join forces with the Tyler Trent Family, the Elks Club of West Lafayette and Purdue’s Center for Cancer Research to begin making plans for an event at the West Lafayette Golf Club in September of that year, but as COVID spiked in mid-summer, that event was postponed. Then, last winter, the Elks Club voted to dissolve itself leaving the Tiller Chapter and the PCCR to co-host the event.  

Coyote Crossing Golf Club near West Lafayette “stepped up” and negotiated a good price and became the site of the Tyler Trent Golf Outing on Sept. 3 of this year. With 18 sponsors, 64 golfers, great weather and the cooperation of former Purdue quarterback great Jim Everett, the outing experienced terrific success, raising $6,000 for cancer research in honor of the legacy of Purdue “super-fan” Tyler Trent who passed away on the first day of 2019 after a news-making battle with osteosarcoma cancer.

The victorious team in this year’s scramble was the Lafayette Journal & Courier’s foursome of Tim Adams, Tom Cavanaugh, Paul Barrick and Junior Fassnacht, edging out Team Sorensen (Gerry and Dean Abplanalp, Ron Wildman and Erik Sorensen) by two strokes and Sigma Chi II (Chris Coffey, Jim Hawkins, Rob Barrett and Drew Eddy) by five. Prizes, valued at more than $2,500, were awarded to the participants.