Coach Drinkwitz Set To Compete In 2024 Southern Company Peach Bowl Challenge
4/29/2024 12:27:00 PM | Football
Nation’s premier collegiate coach golf event to feature current and former coaches teeing it up for $300,000 in charity
GREENSBORO, Ga. – University of Missouri football head coach Eliah Drinkwitz will represent the Tigers in the 17th annual Southern Company Peach Bowl Challenge charity golf tournament held April 28 – 30 at Reynolds Lake Oconee outside of Atlanta. A field of 23 current and former college football coaches will compete for a share of a $300,000 charity purse.
The nation's premier collegiate coach golf event will be played in two-man scramble format in an 18-hole tournament. The Stableford scoring system will be used to help balance handicaps and encourage aggressive play.
Proceeds from the competition benefit charitable foundations selected by the coaches. Coach Drinkwitz's winnings will go to CarePortal, which is an online platform that works to bring together children, families, churches and the community by connecting local organizations to hundreds of local children in need.
This represents Coach Drinkwitz's second appearance in the Southern Company Peach Bowl Challenge as he looks to add to the $10,000 in charitable winnings he already won at last year's event.
Since its creation in 2007, the event has contributed a total of $9.3 million in scholarship and charity, helping make the Peach Bowl college football's most charitable bowl organization.
"We have another impressive field this year as some of the sport's top coaches tee it up for charity," Peach Bowl, Inc. CEO and President Gary Stokan said. "Many of college football's best rivalries extend to the green in this annual tradition, but it's the charities who are the real winners as we're set to raise another $300,000 this year."
This year's field includes an impressive roster of college football greats that features three former Dodd Trophy winners, and a collective group of coaches who have won six FBS national championships, 42 conference championships and boast 2,229 collegiate career wins.
The 2024 field also features 20 coaches who have previously competed in the Southern Company Peach Bowl Challenge, while P.J. Fleck, Brent Key and Dan Lanning make their first-ever appearances in the event.
Pairings for the 2024 Southern Company Peach Bowl Challenge will be announced prior to the tournament.
The current field of competitors for this year's Peach Bowl Challenge is projected to include:
COACH - CURRENT OR FORMER FBS SCHOOL(S)
• Shane Beamer — South Carolina
• Manny Diaz — Duke
• Dave Doeren — NC State
• Eliah Drinkwitz — Mizzou
• Randy Edsall — Maryland, UConn
• P.J. Fleck — Minnesota
• Hugh Freeze — Auburn
• Chan Gailey — Georgia Tech
• Jim Grobe — Ohio, Wake Forest, Baylor
• Paul Johnson — Navy, Georgia Tech
• Brent Key — Georgia Tech
• Dan Lanning — Oregon
• Urban Meyer — Bowling Green, Utah, Florida, Ohio State
• Jeff Monken — Army
• Dan Mullen — Mississippi State, Florida
• Pat Narduzzi — Pitt
• Rick Neuheisel — Colorado, Washington, UCLA
• Mike Norvell — Florida State
• Houston Nutt — Boise State, Arkansas, Ole Miss
• Tom O' Brien — Boston College, NC State
• Kirby Smart — Georgia
• Steve Spurrier — Duke, Florida, South Carolina
• Tommy Tuberville — Ole Miss, Auburn, Texas Tech, Cincinnati
The Tigers, coming off an 11-2 season with a Top 10 postseason ranking and win in the 88th Goodyear Cotton Bowl, open the 2024 season against Murray State on Thursday, Aug. 29 at 7 p.m. CT on SEC Network inside Memorial Stadium. The matchup is only the fifth weeknight game at Faurot Field since 2009.
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