Capital One’s The Match: Champions for Change is only eight days away and the hype machine for this day-after Thanksgiving exhibition is heating up. Earlier this week, Golden State Warriors star Steph Curry joined the No Laying Up podcast and said, “This one’s going to be dope just because, obviously there’s Phil, there’s me, there’s Peyton, and then way down there is Chuck, so he’s going to embarrass himself for sure. It’s just going to be mad fun to rag on him all day.”
In case you’ve been living under a rock, that would be Phil Mickelson and Charles Barkley facing Steph Curry and Peyton Manning in modified alternate shot match play at Stone Canyon Golf Club in Oro Valley, Arizona.
Turner Sports will once again broadcast the third rendition of The Match next Friday at 3 p.m. ET, with exclusive live event coverage available on TNT and live companion content – highlighted by the “Cart Cam” stream – leading up to and during the event through Bleacher Report and the B/R app.
TNT’s live coverage of Capital One’s The Match will be hosted by Brian Anderson, who will provide play-by-play alongside Trevor Immelman and Andre Iguodala, with on-course reporters Cheyenne Woods and Gary McCord. Special guests are also expected to make appearances, joining the telecast via Cisco Webex.
Additionally, Eli Manning, Peyton’s younger brother and a Super Bowl winning quarterback in his own right, will be part of a pre-game show alongside LPGA star Michelle Wie. Eli will do double duty as an on-course correspondent for the Cart Cam live stream. McCord, who ran into Peyton this week at Whisper Rock Golf Club, had an interesting exchange with Peyton about his brother’s involvement in the broadcast: “He told me his brother Eli was going to have some sort of involvement and I said, ‘Is that good or bad?’ He said, ‘It’s not good for me.’ Those two can go at it. If I was a producer, that’s exactly what I’d have done.”
At its essence, The Match is about raising money to highlight diversity, equality and inclusion at Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs). Through its association with the event, WarnerMedia will make donations to Morehouse College, Howard University, Alabama A&M, Hampton University and Winston-Salem State University, primarily helping to fund golf or sports journalism programs. Additionally, the four golfers have selected Jackson State (Mickelson), Tuskegee (Barkley) and Howard (Curry), along with Grambling State, Southern University at New Orleans and Lane College (Manning), to be the recipients of their donations.
There also will be a series of on-course challenges, aimed at driving additional funding for HBCUs. For each of those holes, there will be a minimum of $100,000 and up to $2,500,000 (on select holes) donated if a golfer is able to make a hole-in-one.
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