University of North Carolina Athletics
Davis, Means Place Fourth In Chick-fil-A Challenge
April 28, 2010 | Football
April 28, 2010
Greensboro, Ga. ---- North Carolina's Butch Davis and Natrone Means finished fourth in the 2010 Chick-fil-A Bowl Challenge charity golf tournament Tuesday at Reynolds Plantation resort outside Atlanta. The UNC team fired a 4-under 68 and took home $40,000 in scholarship money for UNC.
Later that evening, Davis spoke at a Rams Club Tour event in Atlanta before heading to Charlotte for Wednesday's Rams Club stop at the Westin Hotel.
The Chick-fil-A Bowl Challenge is the nation's premier head coach and celebrity golf event. The Challenge features pairings of a university head coach and a celebrity or former athlete from the same school competing in a scramble format against other university teams from the ACC and SEC.
The final standings and scholarship winnings were as follows:
Team Score Winnings Florida State (Jimbo Fisher/Terrell Buckley) -7 $120,000 Georgia Tech (Paul Johnson/Jon Barry) -6 $60,000 South Carolina (Steve Spurrier/Sterling Sharpe) -5 $50,000 North Carolina (Butch Davis/Natrone Means) -4 $40,000 N.C. State (Sidney Lowe/Monte Towe) -2 $30,000 Alabama (Nick Saban/Steve Sloan) +1 $17,500 Maryland (Ralph Friedgen/Stan Gelbaugh) +1 $17,500 Vanderbilt (Bobby Johnson/Will Perdue) +1 $17,500 Wake Forest (Jim Grobe/Billy Packer) +1 $17,500 Ole Miss (Houston Nutt/Wesley Walls) +2 $10,000 Clemson (Dabo Swinney/Dwight Clark) +3 $10,000 Virginia Tech (Frank Beamer/Brad Clontz) +4 $10,000
In addition to the $400,000 scholarship purse, an additional $135,000 was donated to Chick-fil-A's WinShape Homes, a long-term foster care program. The Chick-fil-A Bowl Challenge is a significant contributor to the Chick-fil-A Bowl's overall annual charitable and scholarship donations. The Chick-fil-A Bowl leads all bowls in the country in charitable giving, including gifts of more than $5.8 million since 2002.
The tournament was taped by ESPN for broadcast in the fall. The date of the broadcast will be announced this summer.
