Eliah Drinkwitz To Compete In 2023 Southern Company Peach Bowl Challenge

Football
4/18/2023 1:57:00 PM

Nation’s premier collegiate coach golf event to feature current and former coaches teeing it up for $300,000 in charity

COLUMBIA, Mo. – University of Missouri football head coach Eliah Drinkwitz will represent the Tigers in the 16th annual Southern Company Peach Bowl Challenge charity golf tournament held April 30 – May 2 at Reynolds Lake Oconee outside of Atlanta.

A field of 20 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.

The current field of competitors for this year’s Peach Bowl Challenge is projected to include:

COACH – CURRENT OR FORMER FBS SCHOOL(S)

• Dino Babers – Syracuse

• Shane Beamer – South Carolina

• Eliah Drinkwitz – Missouri

• Randy Edsall – Maryland, UConn

• Chan Gailey – Georgia Tech

• Jim Grobe – Ohio, Wake Forest, Baylor

• Bobby Johnson – Vanderbilt

• Paul Johnson – Navy, Georgia Tech

• Brent Key – Georgia Tech

• Urban Meyer – Bowling Green, Utah, Florida, Ohio State

• Jeff Monken – Army

• Dan Mullen – Mississippi State, Florida

• Pat Narduzzi – Pitt

• Rick Neuheisel – Colorado,…