Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning Top Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady to Win The Match
|Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning teamed up to defeat Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady in The Match: Champions for Charity held at the prestigious Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Florida. The event raised $20 million for Covid-19 relief.
#CapitalOnesTheMatch helped raise $20M for COVID-19 relief ð pic.twitter.com/2eCCZDJpZy
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) May 25, 2020
While Woods and Manning started off hot and took a 3-up lead into the back nine, the highlight of the day belonged to six-time Super Bowl champion Tom Brady, who holed out from the fairway on the par-5 No. 7 following criticism from TNT announcer Charles Barkley. Brady’s response after draining the shot from just inside 100 yards, “Take a suck on that Chuck!”
TOM BRADY. WOW.
Watch #CapitalOnesTheMatch now on TNT pic.twitter.com/k4Au3SOpSU
— Bleacher Report (@BleacherReport) May 24, 2020
Brady’s chip in for birdie also earned an extra $100,000 to the charity from four-time major champion Brooks Koepka, who tweeted that he would make the donation of Brady could get a par on the front nine.
Iâll donate 100k through the @bkcharityfund if @TomBrady makes a par on the front 9 #TheMatch #TNT
— Brooks Koepka (@BKoepka) May 24, 2020
A great deal of The Match took place in a driving rain storm, but the four legends powered through it all while Mickelson and Brady when the format switched from Best Ball on the front nine to Modified Alternate Shot on the back nine to come up one hole short as Woods’ 40-foot lag putt gave the 15-time major champion and two-time Super Bowl winner the victory.
The Turner Sports broadcast added a lot to the fun with Brian Anderson doing play-by-play alongside NBA on TNT analyst Charles Barkley in the booth and current world No. 4 Justin Thomas out on the course. Thomas, who like Woods is a member of Medalist Golf Club, provided a Tony Rom0-esque ability to predict putts while reading the greens and sharing his familiarity of the amazing venue.
Thomas even poked fun at Barkley after Sir Charles’ analysis of a Woods bunker shot.
âChuck, Iâd love to see your fat ass try to jump in basketball right now.â â ïžâ ïžâ ïž@JustinThomas34 and Charles Barkley need to call everything together. #TheMatch pic.twitter.com/HpE2CFyroB
— Jeff Eisenband (@JeffEisenband) May 24, 2020
Alex Rodriguez, J.J. Watt and Russell Wilson all made appearances during the broadcast with charitable dontations.
Next up for golf fans is the Charles Schwab Challenge, June 11-14 at Colonial Country Club in Fort Worth, Texas. Mickelson is among the stacked field that already includes six of the top 10 in the world.
See the full early commitment list at charlesschwabchallenge.com.
That was fun, thanks for the entertainment @TomBrady @TigerWoods @PhilMickelson & Peyton.
And also to the crew and staff working through that weather. Good times and some much needed live competition for us all.
And all for a great cause. #TheMatch
— JJ Watt (@JJWatt) May 25, 2020