Hugh Freeze<\/a> is among 12 celebrities participating in the FedEx St. Jude Classic\u2019s Championship Pro-Am Wednesday at TPC Southwind.<\/p>\n\u201cThis is St. Jude\u2019s 50th anniversary and as a thank you for our support, our partners at St. Jude came to us last fall and volunteered to use their considerable influence to beef up our pro-am,\u201d said FESJC general chairman Jack Sammons. \u201cOf course, we said \u201cyes\u201d.\u201d<\/p>\n
Celebrities joining Freeze include NBA legends Julius \u2018Dr. J\u2019 Erving, Penny Hardaway, Rick Barry and Greg Anthony; former NFL star and current Turner Sports broadcaster Joe Theismann; CBS Sports broadcaster Tim Brando; Memphis Grizzlies guard Mike Conley; Chicago Bears kicker Robbie Gould; former NFL and Tennessee standout Carl Pickens; syndicated columnist Roland S. Martin and Memphis Tigers football coach Justin Fuente.<\/p>\n
\u201cAdding celebrities on Wednesday is just one of many ways we are improving the tournament experience, \u201cSammons said. \u201cWe have spent considerable resources to make the tournament more attractive to a younger audience.\u201d<\/p>\n
A purse of $5.6 million will be at stake during the 55th FedEx St. Jude Classic, which runs through Sunday at TPC Southwind.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
FedEx St. Jude Classic’s Championship Pro-Am Will Be Held At TPC Southwind MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2013 Ole Miss head football coach Hugh Freeze is among 12 celebrities participating in the FedEx St. Jude Classic\u2019s Championship Pro-Am Wednesday at TPC Southwind. \u201cThis is St. Jude\u2019s 50th anniversary and as a thank you for our support, our partnersRead the story …<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\nFreeze Competing In Celebrity Pro-Am Wednesday - Ole Miss News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/freeze-competing-in-celebrity-pro-am-wednesday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Freeze Competing In Celebrity Pro-Am Wednesday - Ole Miss News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"FedEx St. Jude Classic’s Championship Pro-Am Will Be Held At TPC Southwind MEMPHIS, Tenn. \u2013 Ole Miss head football coach Hugh Freeze is among 12 celebrities participating in the FedEx St. Jude Classic\u2019s Championship Pro-Am Wednesday at TPC Southwind. \u201cThis is St. Jude\u2019s 50th anniversary and as a thank you for our support, our partnersRead the story …\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/freeze-competing-in-celebrity-pro-am-wednesday\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Ole Miss News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2014-09-23T13:32:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SKB_1725-AZ.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"2048\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1150\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@OleMissRebels\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@OleMissRebels\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/\",\"name\":\"Ole Miss News\",\"description\":\"The official source for University of Mississippi news\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/?s={search_term_string}\",\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/freeze-competing-in-celebrity-pro-am-wednesday\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/SKB_1725-AZ.jpg\",\"width\":\"2048\",\"height\":\"1150\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/freeze-competing-in-celebrity-pro-am-wednesday\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/freeze-competing-in-celebrity-pro-am-wednesday\/\",\"name\":\"Freeze Competing In Celebrity Pro-Am Wednesday - Ole Miss News\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/freeze-competing-in-celebrity-pro-am-wednesday\/#primaryimage\"},\"datePublished\":\"-0001-11-30T00:00:00+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2014-09-23T13:32:27+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/person\/4515cb1b4f8a759552c0827c3df56430\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"http:\/\/news.olemiss.edu\/freeze-competing-in-celebrity-pro-am-wednesday\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/#\/schema\/person\/4515cb1b4f8a759552c0827c3df56430\",\"name\":\"admin\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/#personlogo\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/3e8e7562bf6d779d771ad8ce4cecd7ef?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"admin\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14710"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40904,"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14710\/revisions\/40904"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web20.olemiss.edu\/news\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}