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According to a report by Sportico on Thursday,
the former basketball player will join current NBA star Stephen
Curry in replacing Tiger Woods and Tom Brady. Phil Mickelson and
former quarterback Peyton Manning will be the other
participants. Manning and Woods won "The Match: Champions for
Charity" over Brady and Mickelson in May.
According to Sportico, this upcoming event will be called "The
Match 3: Champions for Change." The event will take place on
Friday, Nov. 27 (the day after Thanksgiving), per the report,
though it was not clear which players will be paired together,
nor did it state where the match would take place. Turner Sports
-- organizer and broadcaster of the event -- declined to
comment.
The Match series is designed to raise money for charity while
featuring some of the biggest names in golf (the first event was
a head's up match between Woods and Mickelson) and sports.
Champions for Charity raised $20 million for COVID-19 relief
drew an average of 5.8 million viewers across four Turner
networks, making it the most-watched golf telecast in cable TV
history, according to Turner.
As is the case with his work on TNT's basketball coverage,
Barkley became one of the highlights of "The Match: Champions
for Charity" with his commentating, at one point getting called
out by Brady after the now-Tampa Bay quarterback holed out from
the fairway from about 150 yards for a birdie on No. 7.
While Barkley's golf game is known far more his rough swing and
usually ugly results, the same cannot be said for Curry. The
scratch golfer regularly competes in charity events and has
competed in two events on the Korn Ferry Tour (missing the cut
both times). Last September, he hosted the inaugural Stephen
Curry Charity Classic in San Francisco.
The 32-year-old Curry, a two-time NBA MVP and three-time NBA
champion with the Golden State Warriors, played in only five
games last season, breaking a bone in his hand in October then
returning for one game in March.
--Field Level Media
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