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The Match: Champions for Charity rules and info

What are the rules for the golf match between Tom Brady, Peyton Manning, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson?

Peyton Manning and Tiger Woods will face off against Tom Brady and Phil Mickelson is The Match: Champions for Charity at the Medalist Golf Club in Florida on Sunday afternoon. The golf match will help raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts.

The match will start at 1 p.m. MT and will be televised on TNT, TBS, truTV and HLN (coverage begins at noon). Sports fans can stream the event using FuboTV (try it free).

Last week, the PGA Tour announced rules for the match:

• Four-Ball will be the format on holes 1-9. The amateur player will be given three handicap strokes on the nine; one stroke each on a par 3, par 4 and par 5 on holes to be identified by the committee.

• Modified Alternate Shot will be the format on holes 10-18. On every hole, each player will play from the teeing area. A ball will be chosen be in-play and strokes are played on an alternating basis until the hole is decided, under the Rules of Golf covering Foursomes.

In the event of a tied match, the match will be extended. The match will extend to a short hole of approximately 100-125 yards to the 18th green, until a winner is determined. The form of play when play is extended shall remain Modified Alternate Shot.

If there match is postponed due to the weather, it will be played on Monday. Each player will have to pass a COVID-19 test before participating in the competition.

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How to watch and stream The Match: Champions for Charity

What time does The Match: Champions for Charity start? What’s the TV channel? Can you stream The Match for free? Get the answers here.

Peyton Manning and Tiger Woods will face off against Tom Brady and Phil Mickelson is The Match: Champions for Charity at the Medalist Golf Club in Florida on Sunday afternoon. The golf match will help raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts.

The match will start at 1 p.m. MT and will be televised on TNT, TBS, truTV and HLN (coverage begins at noon). Sports fans can stream the event using FuboTV (try it free).

Michelob ULTRA, a sponsor of the match, plans to give a free six-pack of beer to all U.S.-based sports fans 21 and older if any of the four participants sinks a hole-in-one during the competition.

Manning, Brady, Woods, Mickelson and WarnerMedia will donate a combined $10 million to COVID-19 relief efforts and more money will be raised through challenges and campaigns during the match.

Manning and Woods, who golfed together at four Memorial pro-ams in the past, are considered betting favorites over Brady and Mickelson.

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You can never unsee this Peyton Manning x Caddyshack deepfake video

To promote ‘The Match: Champions for Charity,’ a sponsor is creating deepfake videos of Peyton Manning appearing in ‘Caddyshack.’

Peyton Manning and Tiger Woods will team up to take on Tom Brady and Phil Mickelson in The Match: Champions for Charity on Sunday. The golf match will air on TNT to help raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts.

Michelob ULTRA is one of the sponsors for the event and they teamed up with Manning to create a deepfake video of the former quarterback appearing in Caddyshack, Bill Murray’s 1980 golf comedy.

You will never be able to unsee this:

As a sponsor of the event, Michelob ULTRA is giving fans extra incentive to tune in to the match. If any of the four participants sink a hole-in-one, Michelob ULTRA will give a free six-pack of beer to all U.S.-based sports fans 21 and older (see the rules here).

Manning and Woods, who golfed together at four Memorial pro-ams in the past, are considered betting favorites over Brady and Mickelson. The match will air on TNT at 1:00 p.m. MT on Sunday, May 24.

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The Match II: Betting odds, picks and prop bets for Woods-Manning vs. Mickelson-Brady

Highlighting the best prop bets for The Match II between Tiger Woods-Peyton Manning and Phil Mickelson-Tom Brady, with PGA Tour betting odds, picks and best bets.

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Tiger Woods teams up with Peyton Manning Sunday to battle Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady in The Match: Champions for Charity. The sequel to the Woods vs. Mickelson showdown from Nov. 2018 is being held at Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Fla. and will begin at 2 p.m. ET. Below, we look at the best prop bets for The Match II and make our picks.

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The Match II: Outright odds and best bet to win

Odds provided by BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Wednesday, May 20 at 3 p.m. ET.

Woods/Manning: -223 | Mickelson/Brady: +160 (Price Boost: +180)

Woods and Manning, the rightful favorites, carried -208 odds Monday. With a $10 bet at the current price point returning a profit of just $4.81 with an outright win, the play is to HOLD until Sunday in wait of a higher number.

Rory McIlroy and Dustin Johnson were sizable favorites over Rickie Fowler and Matthew Wolff ahead of the TaylorMade Driving Relief event last week, but the line came much closer on the day of the match. Expect similar movement this week – especially with the inclusion of the famous NFL quarterbacks and a broader, sports-starved audience – to get the best odds on the favorites closer to tee time.

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The Match II: Best prop bets

Longest drive on hole 3: Mickelson (+130)

Even amid a poor start to the 2020 PGA Tour season, Mickelson, ranked 222nd in the Golfweek/Sagarin world rankings, was outdriving Woods (16th) 301.1 yards to 291.1. The two PGA Tour pros share the +130 odds, but Mickelson is the pick.

Both Manning and Brady are +700 but don’t overthink this one. They’re still amateur golfers. Note: Per BetMGM rules, the ball has to be in the fairway to count.

Nearest the pin on hole 4: Brady (+600)

Though we’re trusting the pros above, the playing field becomes a little more level on the short par-3 fourth. It’s the shortest of the four par 3s at Medalist at just 191 yards in length.

Manning is typically the better golfer of the two future Hall of Fame QBs with a handicap of 6.4 to Brady’s 8.1, but on such a short hole chase the value with Brady holding the longest odds.

Who will lead after 9 holes? Woods/Manning (-112)

The teams will play the Four-Ball (Best Ball) format on the front nine with the better score of each twosome counting as the team score on each hole. As such, the first nine holes will primarily be Woods vs. Mickelson.

Trust in Woods’ superior world ranking and better play earlier in the 2020 season. The halftime odds are much more appealing for the favorites than their outright odds, and things will become much less predictable with a modified alternate shot format being played on the back.

Who will win hole 18? Woods/Manning (+220)

The expectation is that The Match II will go right down to the wire and the final hole, if not a playoff. It’s a charity event and it’s being televised; organizers will do all they can with various side bets and challenges to draw this out to an exciting finale.

Once there, stick by the opening favorites to pull off a dramatic victory. Woods will have his revenge over Mickelson, and Manning has plenty of reasons for wanting to get back at Brady.

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Charles Barkley, Justin Thomas on the call for Tiger-Phil match

Justin Thomas, Charles Barkley are on the on-air team calling The Match: Champions for Charity featuring Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson.

Justin Thomas, fresh off landing the cover for PGA Tour 2K21, has been announced as one of the commentators for The Match: Champions for Charity.

It’ll be Part II of the Tiger Woods-Phil Mickelson showdown, but this time, it features two NFL greats, as Woods will team up with Peyton Manning, while Mickelson’s teammate will be Tom Brady.

The Match: Champions for Charity is set for Sunday, May 24 at 3 p.m. ET.

Thomas will be an on-course reporter, as will CBS’ Amanda Balionis. Brian Anderson is the host and he will be joined by two analysts: NBA legend Charles Barkley and 2008 Masters champ Trevor Immelman. Barkley also works as a basketball analyst on TNT’s Inside the NBA.

All the action will be live on four different cable channels: TNT, TBS, truTV and HLN. There will also be a live pre-match show on the Bleacher Report app starting at 2 p.m.

The event will raise $10 million for COVID-19 relief.

The Match: Champions for Charity will be played at the Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Florida.

The Match: Champions for Charity
The Match: Champions for Charity is live on May 24 across multiple networks.

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The Match: Champions for Charity – Best bets for Woods-Manning vs. Mickelson-Brady

Looking at the betting odds and making our best bets for The Match: Champions for Charity between Tiger Woods-Peyton Manning and Phil Mickelson-Tom Brady.

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Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson are going head-to-head once again in The Match: Champions for Charity Sunday, May 24, at Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Fla. Woods will be joined by future Hall of Fame QB Peyton Manning, while Mickelson teams up with Tampa Bay Buccaneers QB Tom Brady for a charity match raising money for COVID-19 relief efforts.

Also see: How to Watch Driving Relief: McIlroy-Johnson vs. Fowler-Wolff odds and bets

Below, we’ll look at the early betting lines for the first-of-its-kind golf event. The two teams will play the Four-Ball (Best Ball) format on the front nine. They’ll then switch to a modified alternate shot format for the back nine where each member of the twosomes will tee off with alternate shot being played from the best first shot.

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The Match: Champions for Charity – Odds and best bet

Odds provided by BetMGM; access USA TODAY Sports’ betting odds for a full list. Lines last updated Saturday, May 9 at 9 a.m. ET.

Woods/Manning: -200 vs. Mickelson/Brady: +150

Woods and Manning open as fairly heavy favorites in the charity exhibition. Woods, the defending Masters champion, sits 16th in the Golfweek/Sagarin world rankings amid the PGA Tour’s pause due to the pandemic. Mickelson has slipped all the way to 222nd in the world ranking after missing the cut in four of his last six professional events.

Manning also holds an edge over Brady, playing to a handicap of 3.5 to Brady’s 8.

While Mickelson bested Woods one-on-one after four playoff holes the last time around in 2018 at Shadow Creek Golf Course in Las Vegas, NV, the favorites are the ones to back at Medalist. Woods is one of many PGA Tour pros who calls it his home course, and he’s pairing up with the better of the two amateurs.

Back WOODS/MANNING at -200. A $10 bet will return a profit of $5 with a win. There are sure to be more prop bets released in the build-up to the event, and we at SportsbookWire will have you covered.

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The Match: Champions for Charity – How to watch

When is it? Sunday, May 24. Coverage begins at 2 p.m. ET.

Where is it? Medalist Golf Club, Hobe Sound

Television broadcast: TNT, TBS, truTV and HLN

Pre-match coverage: Bleacher Report app

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Peyton Manning roasts Tom Brady for ‘B&E arrest’ in Florida

Peyton Manning had some good-natured jabs for Tom Brady before their golf showdown.

Peyton Manning and Tom Brady will join Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson in a golf match on May 24 to raise money for COVID-19 relief efforts. In a video press conference on Thursday, Manning took a good-natured jab at Brady by saying the Bucs QB was arrested for “breaking and entering.”

“The tournament had to be in Florida — after Tom’s B&E arrest, with the ankle monitor, he couldn’t leave the state,” Manning joked. “So it had to be in Florida. Tiger and I talked to the sheriff in Tampa [and] he’s going to be allowed to go to Palm Beach to play.”

Manning, of course, was referencing Brady walking into a stranger’s house in April, thinking he was at the home of Byron Leftwich. Brady was not arrested for the innocent mistake.

Manning then took another jab at Brady for leaving the Patriots.

“I’ll be honest, I’ve never played Tom very well on his home turf,” Manning said. “I would have loved to have this tournament in a place where they don’t like Tom very much: Indianapolis, Denver, Boston — after he betrayed them and broke their hearts.”

Manning and Brady were rivals on the field but they are friends off the field and have stayed close since Manning’s retirement in 2016. Manning’s remarks were clearly well-received by a laughing Brady.

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How to watch Tiger Woods vs. Phil Mickelson Part II and what you need to know

Teeing up The Match: Champions for Charity with Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning taking on Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady.

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The worlds of professional golf and football will join forces Sunday, May 24, at Medalist Golf Club in Hobe Sound, Fla., as Tiger Woods and Peyton Manning team up to battle Phil Mickelson and Tom Brady in The Match: Champions for Charity.

The event is being held to raise money for the COVID-19 pandemic, while the PGA Tour remains on hiatus until the currently scheduled return date of June 11 for the Charles Schwab Challenge. WarnerMedia and the golfers have pledged a donation of $10 million to COVID-19 relief.

Below, we break down all we know about The Match Part II with key details on the course, participants and how to watch.

The Match Part II: Medalist Golf Club

Woods is one of the many PGA Tour pros who call Medalist their home course. The private club measures 7,157 yards and plays to a par of 72.

The course will be carefully prepared under the watch of state and local government and public health officials to ensure the health and safety of all involved.

The Match Part II: Format

The teams of two, featuring two Hall of Fame golfers and two future Hall of Fame NFL quarterbacks, will compete in a unique match play event. The first nine holes will see them follow a Four-Ball (Best Ball) format before switching to a modified alternate shot format for the closing nine.

All four golfers will tee off on each hole on the back nine. They’ll choose the best tee shot of the twosome and alternate shots the rest of the way in.

The format is a sure way to engage viewers and sports bettors alike, with in-play betting widely expected to be a big draw to the event during the international sports lull. There’s expected to be a broad range of on-course competitions between the golfers and teams to raise more money for the COVID-19 charities.

The Match Part II: How to watch

The broadcast will be carried by TNT, TBS, truTV and HLN and will begin at 3 p.m. ET Sunday, May 24. The Bleacher Report app will carry exclusive pre-match coverage.

The Match Part II: The participants

Tiger currently ranks 16th in the Golfweek/Sagarin world rankings. He last finished 68th at The Genesis Invitational in mid-February.

Mickelson has fallen all the way to 222nd in the Golfweek rankings. He missed the cut at both The Genesis Invitational and the Arnold Palmer Invitational. His last win was at the 2019 AT&T Pebble Beach Pro-Am.

Manning and Brady play to handicaps of 3.5 and 8, respectively.

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Reports say a Tiger-Phil rematch is in the works, with a kicker to boot

According to reports, the match could happen in May and it’s likely to involve two famous NFL quarterbacks.

Tiger-Phil II?

And with a unique kicker to boot?

According to reports, a rematch between Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, who hooked up in a winner-take-all, $9 million duel in the Las Vegas desert in November 2018, will take place.

Here’s the kicker: joining the twosome will be a pair of NFL quarterback icons – Tom Brady and Peyton Manning. According to Golf.com and CNBC reports, Brady would pair with Mickelson and Manning would play with Woods. Manning and Woods played together in the pro-am at the Memorial last year.

CNBC, citing an unnamed person familiar with the negotiations, said the match could happen in May. Pay-per-view is unlikely. Instead, CNBC reported the match would be televised on one of the WarnerMedia company’s television networks such as Turner Sports’ TNT.

While Mickelson hauled away the $9 million by defeating Woods on the 22nd hole in the November match, all money raised from the second event would benefit charities associated with coronavirus relief. The coronavirus global epidemic has shut down nearly every sports league worldwide, including the PGA Tour.

LAS VEGAS, NV - NOVEMBER 23: Tiger Woods plays his shot from the first tee during The Match: Tiger vs Phil at Shadow Creek Golf Course on November 23, 2018 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images for The Match)
Tiger Woods plays his shot from the first tee during The Match: Tiger vs. Phil at Shadow Creek Golf Course on Nov. 23, 2018 in Las Vegas. (Photo by Christian Petersen/Getty Images for The Match)

Woods’ agent, Mark Steinberg, declined to comment on the reports. Mickelson’s agent, Steve Loy, told ESPN he couldn’t provide many details because “there are many moving parts.”

Earlier in the week, Mickelson hinted on Twitter that a rematch is in the works.

The PGA Tour, which would have to sanction the event, said in a statement, it hasn’t done so as of now. “Discussions along these lines have been ongoing for quite some time, but nothing has been approved by the PGA Tour.”

According to a report in Golf.com, which cited an unnamed person familiar with the plans, the match would take place in Florida. Spectators will not be allowed, per social distancing guidelines.

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Phil Mickelson ‘working on’ a second match against Tiger Woods

Phil Mickelson said he’s “working on” a second match against Tiger Woods on Twitter.

We’re all craving live sports — iRacing is as close as we’ve gotten — as social distancing continues to postpone and cancel actual events and leagues.

Thanks to Phil Mickelson, we might be getting close to a second edition of The Match, in which Lefty beat Tiger Woods in a one-on-one round that went into overtime back in November of 2018.

On Sunday, a Twitter user reached out to both Woods and Mickelson and asked if there was “a chance” they’d play each other again with a camera on them and mics on. It was quite a shot to shoot.

But Mickelson responded:

And he’s not kidding:

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