Author: ohiogolf

Here are the Big Break Player Rankings after two shows (I’m not including the first show unless I catch it again being replayed). I’ve watched the fourth episode but haven’t factored that one in the rankings yet. By the way, Caroline was eliminated in the third show in case you were curious.

The rankings are based on shots hit.

Decent shot – 1/2 point
Really good shot – 1 point
Fantastic shot – 1 1/2 points

I had a bit of a dilemma as to how to rank shots in the elimination round and those in the non-elimination rounds. A player should not receive as many points for being in the elimination round or be able to rack up points just because he/she is in the elimination round. But, in the end, I figured experience in the elimination round probably helps a player out quite a bit towards winning the entire shooting match so you can rack up points in the elimination round and do so at the same value as non-elimination rounds. So here we go:

8. Nicole – 3 points – I hate to rank Nicole last and part of her low point total is she has not been in an elimination round yet. What killed her is her inability to score in the fade/draw challenge. In fact, she couldn’t even hit her driver 170 yards. I understand that it was cold and into a headwind but still that lack of power is going to eventually kill her chances on The Big Break Prince Edward Island.

7. Blair – 3 points – This is an unfair ranking as well as she did take out Gerina head to head in one challenge by hitting a shot within 5 feet. Blair has not been to an elimination round yet either and that hurts her point total. She also bombed in the fade/draw challenge with zero points.

6. Eugene – 3 points – Eugene survived elimination on the fourth show so I have to rank him above the others even though the third show hasn’t been counted in the point totals yet.

5. Brenda – 4 points – Huge mental mistake in the putting challenge in show 2 that sent her to elimination but scored some big points against Football with a couple really nice shots.

4. Derek – 5.5 points – Got beat by his paramour in the head to head challenge on show 3 and hit some good and terrible shots in the elimination round. Interestingly, the love connection between Derek and Nicole disappears from show 4. But look for fireworks between Nicole and Brenda as I don’t think Nicole appreciated all the jealous razzing of Brenda.

3. Aaron – 6.5 points – Allegedly, the Iceman but I’m not convinced. Like Derek, hit some really good as well as terrible shots in elimination round on show 3.

2. Brian – 8 points – ok, my point system needs a few more shows to work itself out. Brian is a huge head case and I’ve collected some great quotes from this guy. He can barely hit it past 200 with his driver yet still can’t keep it in play. Survived a scare from Kim despite picking up twice in the elimination round. The only thing he’s done is shown that he can putt better than anyone else.

1. Gerina – 10 points – Despite a terrible showing in show 4’s elimination round has been the class of the field. I guess we all have bad days now and again. Hopefully for her, her bad days are over.

How about more rankings – Top Bonehead Plays on The Big Break Prince Edward Island

1. Brenda – putting from the 3 point line when she only needed 2 points. That mistake led to elimination round for her.

2. Football – first chip of elimination rolls off the green and pretty much sealed his fate.

3. Kim – 67 yards from the green and can’t hit it within 20 feet. Bye bye.

4. Aaron – going for it all in the driving grid when he could have played it safe and probably beat Gerina.

5. Derek, Brian and Aaron for hitting into the woods on show 3’s elimination round.

Now it’s time for Quotes from Brian and others:

“I hit the ball 300 plus yards if I connect but it’s not necessary.”

“If my shots are not inside five feet, I am miserably unhappy.”

“I was very disappointed but I never hit it good” (After Gerina toasted him in the driving grid).

“You don’t just gingerly look out in the fairway and say I’m going to hit it out there. You look at your eye cornea. I’m going to put this dart through your eye cornea.”

“I want to think about my talent and my hard work and when I think about that, I should be in first place.”

“When my stroke is on, it’s as good as any human being who’s putted the game of golf. It’s dead nuts perfect. I make putts from everywhere.”

“It was just a disaster. We were in a disaster area on a personal note.”

“If you look at my pitching wedge, there’s almost an indentation in the sweet spot from hitting so many dead-on sweet shots.”

“You have to understand the level of play that I’m used to for myself.”

Ok, I can’t save all the quotes for Brian. Here’s one from Kim:

“I was 10 inches short of eliminating Brian and moving on to the next show.” – No, actually you were 6-8 feet away from doing so.