Gottfried Playing in Region's Classic Charity Pro Am

TUSCALOOSA ?? A trio from the University of Alabama athletics are scheduled to play golf together with PGA Champions Tour player Hale Irwin on Thursday at 9 a.m. CT in the Regions Charity Classic Pro-Am at the Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail at Ross Bridge in Hoover.

Crimson Tide basketball coach Mark Gottfried, football coach Nick Saban and Director of Athletics Mal Moore are paired with Irwin who has 45 tour victories on the Champions Tour and won 20 on the PGA Tour. Irwin won the 2001 Regions Charity Classic.

Other sports celebrities with Alabama ties tentatively scheduled to participate on Thursday are former UA and NFL quarterback Jay Barker, former Crimson Tide All-American and NFL star Cornelius Bennett, and former Tide basketball coach Wimp Sanderson. Sanderson is in a pairing with Syracuse basketball coach Jim Boeheim and UAB football coach Neil Callaway (a University of Alabama graduate and former UA assistant coach). Also listed as playing in the pro-am on Thursday are Charles Barkley, Tim Brando, Drew Brees, Al Del Greco, Taylor Hicks, Bo Jackson, Phil Niekro, Steve Spurrier, Pat Sullivan, Tommy Tuberville and Stan White.

The Regions Charity Classic is a stop on the Champions Tour and will include a field of more than 78 Champions Tour players, including Irwin, when play officially begins on Friday. The three-day, 54 hole tournament is being played at Ross Bridge, a par 72 with a 7,473 yards layout. The event includes a purse of $1.6 million dollars. It has raised more than nine million dollars for local charities in the last 15 years. This is the 16^th year for the event. Brad Bryant is the tournament’s defending champion.

Tickets and information about the pro-am and the tournament itself may be found on the event’s website, www.regionscharityclassic.com.

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Gottfried Playing in Region's Classic Charity Pro Am

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