Even when he isn't coaching football, Urban Meyer's raising money for Ohio State by the thousands.
Meyer and former Buckeye running back Jeff Logan earned a total of $30,000 to be donated to Ohio State for finishing seventh in the Chick-fil-a Peach Bowl's annual charity golf tournament in Greensboro, Ga., April 28, the bowl announced Monday. Meyer and Logan finished 7-under-par at Reynolds Plantation just outside Atlanta.
The Urban and Shelley Meyer Fund for Cancer Research at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center is set to receive half of the $30,000 donation, with the other $15,000 slated to be an endowed scholarship at the school.
"Our mission to give back is a driving force in everything that we do,” Gary Stokan, President and CEO of Peach Bowl, Inc. said in a press release from the bowl. “We’re grateful for the participation of these coaches and celebrities, and are happy to have the opportunity to give something back to their universities and the causes that are so close to their hearts.”
The $30,000 donated to Ohio State is part of a $520,000 purse given out by the Peach Bowl to both charities and scholarship funds, divided among the 13 teams who participated, with another $133,305 generated for other organizations including the American Diabetes Organization.
Georgia Tech head football coach Paul Johnson and former Yellow Jacket basketball player Jon Barry won the competition after outlasting Alabama's Nick Saban and 2009 Heisman Trophy winner Mark Ingram on the fourth playoff hole of competition. South Carolina's Steve Spurrier and Sterling Sharpe, and North Carolina State's Dave Doeren and Terry Harvey also participated in the playoff before falling out prior to the fourth hole after finishing at 9-under-par to tie the Georgia Tech and Alabama squads.
In the last nine years, the Peach Bowl has donated $5.3 million in scholarship and charity.
A replay of the tournament is set to be broadcasted on ESPNU in August and December, according to the bowl.
