5 SEC coaches prepare for charity golf tournament

Five SEC coaches are preparing to play in the ninth-annual Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Golf Challenge starting Sunday.

A 13-team field of NCAA head coaches and celebrity alumni will compete in a two-man scramble format vying for a first-place prize of $125,000.

The event has raised more than $17.6 million since 2002, with some of the money going to endowed scholarships at the participating universities and the rest going to charitable foundations selected by the coaches. Georgia Tech has won the event three of the last four years, but South Carolina is a two-time champion as well.

ESPNU will broadcast the tournament in August and December.

The pairings are interesting, with Alabama’s Nick Saban and Ohio State’s Urban Meyer facing off once again. The two went head-to-head in the ’08 and ’09 SEC championship games when Meyer coached at Florida and again in last season’s College Football Playoff semifinal.

Below are the pairings for Monday’s tournament at Reynolds Planation, as well as some cool playing cards of the five SEC coaches participating in the event.

GROUP ONE

North Carolina: Larry Fedora/Roy Williams
South Carolina: Steve Spurrier/Sterling Sharpe

GROUP TWO

Alabama: Nick Saban/Mark Ingram
Ohio State: Urban Meyer/Jeff Logan

GROUP THREE

Georgia Tech: Paul Johnson/Jon Barry
Mississippi State: Dan Mullen/Fred McCrary

GROUP FOUR

Clemson: Dabo Swinney/Steve Fuller
Auburn: Gus Malzahn/Bo Jackson

GROUP FIVE

Ole Miss: Hugh Freeze/Sean Tuohy
N.C. State: Dave Doeren/Terry Harvey