The Fourth Annual 'Tee It Up for Sean' Memorial Golf Tournament will be held Monday, June 14, 2010 at Five Oaks Golf & Country Club in Lebanon. All proceeds benefit the Sean Putman Memorial Scholarship at Cumberland University. Please visit www.seanputman.org for complete details, including registration and sponsorship forms.

Click here to download an application for the Sean Putman Memorial Scholarship.

The Sean Putman Memorial Scholarship Fund commemorates the life of courageous young Sean Westin Putman, who died at the age of eight on August 20, 2005, after heroically battling illness and determinedly spreading a pervasive joy for living. The second of three sons of Troy and Beth Montgomery Putman, Sean was first diagnosed as a toddler with Ewing's sarcoma (PNET) in the form of a sizable tumor on his spine. After extensive surgery and over 40 weeks of chemotherapy, the cancer was proclaimed to be in remission. Eighteen months later, a small tumor reappeared and, again, chemotherapy brought success. Unrelenting, however, the disease returned for a third an final time.

During his six-year-long struggle, Sean was admired for his courage and unwillingness to complain. As a diapered toddler, he became a familiar sight in the halls of Nashville's Vanderbilt Children's Hospital. He endeared himself to nurses, doctors and technicians who loved him and his quiet, smiling ways.

For months in remission, Sean became an excellent athlete. He excelled in T-ball, soccer and golf. He especially loved golf and had a natural golf swing envied by adults. It seemed only natural that a golf event would be organized to help fund the Sean Putman Memorial Scholarship Fund at Cumberland University.

The inaugural 'Tee It Up for Sean' Memorial Golf Tournament was held June 19, 2006 at Five Oaks Golf & Country Club. The event was a smashing success, attracting some 170 golfers and over 40 family members and volunteers. Proceeds from the tournament far exceeded organizers' expectations for a first-time event. The funds raised contributed greatly to the success of the endowment fund, which has also grown through hundreds of generous donations from friends, family and other supporters of Cumberland University and the Putman/Montgomery families.

A very special source of support came in the form of music. A CD containing country music hits and standards written by Sean's grandfather, Curly Putman, was sold in support of the fund. Curly Putman, a veteran Nashville songwriter, is a member of the Nashville Songwriter's Hall of Fame and the Alabama Music Hall of Fame. The CD, entitled Curly Putman & Friends, This is the Life .. for Sean, is still in circulation with all proceeds benefitting the scholarship fund. The title cut, "This Is the Life," is a love-filled song written by Curly Putman for his grandson.

Sean loved his church family at College Hills Church of Christ. As a result, it was the family's wish that a gift from the fund's earnings be donated each year to the Children's Ministry at College Hills where Sean's parents and brothers, Ian and Ryan, attend. The love and support exhibited by the entire Wilson County community continue to amaze Sean's family. The success of the Sean Putman Memorial Scholarship Fund is a true testament to the warm hearts of the community and the desire to keep the promise of a promising child.