ATLANTA – Auburn head coach Gus Malzahn and former Auburn pitcher Tim Hudson earned $40,000 in scholarship and charity from the 2019 Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge charity golf tournament, raising Team Auburn's all-time winnings from the event to $252,500. The $40,000 from the duo's finish in this year's tournament and Gus Malzahn's victory in the coach division of the Closest to the Pin competition will be split equally between the Malzahn Family Foundation and an endowed scholarship at Auburn University.
The mission of the Malzahn Family Foundation is to help meet the physical, mental, emotional and spiritual well-being of children and their families in times of need. It was founded off of the realization of how important it is to pull together as a community, especially in the midst of heartbreak, and make a difference. Currently, the Foundation is working to raise money to rebuild homes for survivors of the deadly tornado that struck Beauregard, Alabama, in early March.
The Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge is the country's premier head coach and celebrity charity golf event featuring NCAA head coaches and former athletes and celebrities from the same school competing against their rivals, all for scholarship and charity.
Following its mission to support scholarship and charity at all levels, Peach Bowl, Inc. through its Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl Challenge will pay out a total of $650,000 to its 12 participating teams this year, with the winnings being split evenly between a charity or foundation of the coach's choice and an endowed scholarship at each university.
In addition to the $650,000 charity and scholarship purse, another $181,280 was generated for charitable organizations bringing the 2019 total to $831,280 in charitable giving. Since its creation in 2007, the event has contributed a total of $8.4 million in scholarship and charity, helping make the Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl college football's most charitable bowl organization. The Bowl leads all other bowl game organizations in charitable and scholarship contributions, giving $33.8 million to organizations in need since 2002.