LOUISIANA La. - There are many golf fund-raisers held in the Acadiana area annually, but only one features the area’s two best-known professional players.

But you get the idea that Mike Heinen and Craig Perks would be involved in their annual Holiday Golf Classic even if it didn’t mean lending their names to the event.

The annual tournament, one of the major funding events for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Acadiana, held its 10th installment at Le Triomphe Monday, and the largest field in tournament history took part.

“It’s great that people keep coming out and supporting us,” said Heinen, who has been involved with the event since its inception. “It’s a December tournament and you can never tell what’s going to happen with weather and the holidays, but they still sign up and it always seems to work out.”

A total of 36 teams and 144 players took part in the scramble event, one which with its accompanying auction and other events figures to raise over $30,000 for the five clubs in the area.

“We had to get some of the members to bring their own carts out here to help out,” said Boys and Girls Clubs golf committee chair Kevin Tauzin. “When you’ve got that kind of problem, it’s great.”

Heinen and Perks, both University of Louisiana graduates and products of the Ragin’ Cajun golf program, manage to work this event into their schedules every year, despite the demands of both with the PGA Tour.

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Dan McDonald
dmcdonald@lafayette.gannett.com