Swinney, Fuller Paired in Charity Golf Event

ATLANTA – 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	Nick’s Kids Foundation
Clemson	Dabo Swinney / Steve Fuller	National Championship.	Dabo’s All In Team Foundation
Group Two
Georgia	Kirby Smart / David Dukes	On-the-course preview of the 2016	CURE Childhood Cancer
North Carolina	Larry Fedora / B.J. Surhoff	Chick-fil-A Kickoff Game.	UNC Children’s Hospital
Group Three
Auburn	Gus Malzahn / Bo Jackson	A classic football rivalry dating to 1892.	Open Hands Overflowing Hearts
Georgia Tech	Paul Johnson / Jon Barry	Auburn leads a close series 47-41-4.	Camp Twin Lakes
Group Four
South Carolina	Steve Spurrier / Sterling Sharpe	The “Masters Group,” honoring two former	HBC Foundation
Virginia Tech	Frank Beamer / Cam Young	winners of the Challenge.	Herma’s Readers
Group Five
Cincinnati	Tommy Tuberville / J.K. Schaffer	Current American Athletic Conference	Tommy Tuberville Foundation
Houston	Tom Herman / Andre Ware	foes with 2015’s CFA Peach Bowl champs..	Autism Speaks
Group Six
Miss. State	Dan Mullen / Fred McCrary	The pair has faced off 6 times (3-3) since	Mullen Family 36 Foundation
NC State	Dave Doeren / Terry Harvey	1930.	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.

For more information on the event, visit Chick-fil-APeachBowlChallenge.com.