South Carolina head coach Shane Beamer will represent the Gamecocks 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 Beamer’s winnings will go to the Beamer Family Foundation, which supports education, law enforcement and other great causes, with an emphasis in the greater Columbia, South Carolina area.
This represents coach Beamer’s fourth appearance in the Southern Company Peach Bowl Challenge as he looks to add to the $50,000 in charitable winnings he’s already won in previous events.
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.
The current field of competitors for this year’s Peach Bowl Challenge is projected to include:
| COACH | CURRENT OR FORMER
FBS SCHOOL(S) |
CHARITY |
| Shane Beamer | South Carolina | The Beamer Family Foundation |
| Manny Diaz | Duke | Durham Public Schools Foundation |
| Dave Doeren | NC State | One Pack Empowered |
| Eliah Drinkwitz | Mizzou | CarePortal |
| Randy Edsall | Maryland, UConn | Edsall Family Foundation |
| P.J. Fleck | Minnesota | Row the Boat @ Masonic Children’s Hospital |
| Hugh Freeze | Auburn | For Others Collective |
| Chan Gailey | Georgia Tech | Fellowship of Christian Athletes- Georgia Region |
| Jim Grobe | Ohio, Wake Forest, Baylor | Fisher DeBerry Foundation |
| Paul Johnson | Navy, Georgia Tech | Paul and Susan Johnson Family Foundation |
| Brent Key | Georgia Tech | Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation |
| Dan Lanning | Oregon | OHSU Foundation- Knight Cancer Institute |
| Urban Meyer | Bowling Green, Utah, Florida, OhioState | Urban And Shelley Meyer Family Foundation |
| Jeff Monken | Army | Lauren’s First and Goal |
| Dan Mullen | Mississippi State, Florida | Mullen Family 36 Foundation |
| Pat Narduzzi | Pitt | UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh |
| Rick Neuheisel | Colorado, Washington, UCLA | Lord Wedgwood Charity |
| Mike Norvell | Florida State | Keep Climbing Family Foundation |
| Houston Nutt | Boise State, Arkansas, Ole… |
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