Saban, Malzahn get Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge pairings
ATLANTA, GA (Chick-fil-APeachBowlChallenge.com) – The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge today announced the official pairings for its 10th annual charity golf tournament. A 13-team field of NCAA head coaches and celebrity alumni will compete for a first-place prize of $100,000 in scholarship and charity. All participating teams will receive a portion of the $540,000 total purse.
“We created this event to help fulfill our mission to positively impact people’s lives through best-in-class events that create scholarships and charitable donations,” said Gary Stokan, president and CEO of Peach Bowl, Inc.
Over the past nine years, the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge has provided $5.3 million in scholarship and charity. Proceeds from the event benefit endowed scholarships at the participating universities and charitable foundations selected by the coaches, benefitting a wide range of organizations throughout the Southeast and the nation.
The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge is a significant contributor to the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl’s overall charitable and scholarship donations, which total more than $19.5 million since 2002, making the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl college football’s most charitable bowl game.
Competing teams will play a two-man scramble format over 18 holes using confirmed handicap adjustments. Schools will be paired for a shotgun start on the first nine holes and then re-paired, based on scores, and the round will continue with consecutive tee times for the second nine holes.
Highlighted by four Dodd Trophy-winning coaches, five College Football Hall of Famers and three Heisman Trophy winners, initial pairings for the front nine include:
| TEAM: | COACH / CELEBRITY: | PAIRING NOTE: | SELECTED CHARITY: |
| Group One | |||
| Alabama | Nick Saban / Chris Mohr | Links-style rematch of 2015 CFP
National Championship. |
Nick’s Kids Foundation |
| Clemson | Dabo Swinney / Steve Fuller | Dabo’s All In Team Foundation | |
| Group Two | |||
| Georgia | Kirby Smart / David Dukes | On-the-course preview of the 2016
Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game. |
CURE Childhood Cancer |
| North Carolina | Larry Fedora / B.J. Surhoff | UNC Children’s Hospital | |
| Group Three | |||
| Auburn | Gus Malzahn / Bo Jackson | A classic football rivalry dating to 1892.
Auburn leads a close series 47-41-4. |
Open Hands Overflowing Hearts |
| Georgia Tech | Paul Johnson / Jon Barry | Camp Twin Lakes | |
| Group Four | |||
| South Carolina | Steve Spurrier / Sterling Sharpe | The “Masters Group,” honoring two former winners of the Challenge. | HBC Foundation |
| Virginia Tech | Frank Beamer / Cam Young | Herma’s Readers | |
| Group Five | |||
| Cincinnati | Tommy Tuberville / J.K. Schaffer | Current American Athletic Conference
foes with 2015’s CFA Peach Bowl champs.. |
Tommy Tuberville Foundation |
| Houston | Tom Herman / Andre Ware | Autism Speaks | |
| Group Six | |||
| Miss. State | Dan Mullen / Fred McCrary | The pair has faced off 6 times (3-3) since
1930. |
Mullen Family 36 Foundation |
| NC State | Dave Doeren / Terry Harvey | Wake Cty. Special Ed. Services | |
| Group Seven | |||
| Ole Miss | Hugh Freeze / Wesley Walls | 2014 Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game champs. | Hugh and Jill Freeze Foundation |
The nation’s premier head coach and celebrity golf event will be held May 1-3 at the Reynolds Lake Oconee resort outside Atlanta. The tournament will be broadcast on ESPNU in August and December. Specific air dates will be announced this summer.
