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Swinney, Fuller Paired in Charity Golf Event

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.

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