Category: The Big Break

This week’s Big Break started out with one on one competitions for the remaining six competitors. Overall points leader, Lori Stinkeye Atsedes got to choose her competitor. Lori chose Kim thinking it would come down to putting in the end. Sophie chose Christina as she wanted a little revenge. Apparently, Christina had gotten the best of her previously. That left Samantha and Susan to duel it out.

The first station consisted of hitting the ball onto a grid in the fairway. The grid started at 150 and ended at 200 yards. If you didn’t hit it in in four shots, you were given a five. Lori and Kim hit it in in one. Samantha took two and Susan took one. Sophie needed one while Christina needed several (either three or four – memory is fading here).

From there, they went to the second station – a 160 yard shot to the green. Lori again took one shot. Kim took four. Susan needed three shots to get it on the green. Samantha took two shots to get it on. I believe Sophie nailed it in one shot and Christina may have done the same.

The last station was an 18 foot putt. Kim needed to make the putt in two shots or better but missed both. She was headed to elimination. Christina had a similar task and couldn’t do it. Susan made her putt in two tries and Samantha couldn’t match or better that.

Samantha, Christina and Kim fought it out in this week’s elimination round. Elimination consisted of three holes of golf under a modified scoring system. Eagles were worth +5, birdies +3, pars +1, bogies -1 and double bogies and worse -3. All players were tied after parring the first two holes (a par 4 and a par 5).

Kim uncorked a monster drive and birdied the third hole while the others parred. Kim survived another elimination round while Christina and Samantha replayed the hole to determine who would leave The Big Break. Both hit good drives. Christina put her approach on the green for about a 20 footer for birdie. Samantha tanked her second and was left with a 40 yard pitch shot. Amazingly, Samantha almost holed it for a birdie. She tapped in for par, and Christina two putted for par.

You would think that since Tina Miller has the fanciest website of all the Big Breakers that she may have won the Big Break Ka’anapali. If so, you would be wrong. Tina lost in a short game shoot out in the elimination round on last night’s Big Break Ka’anapali episode 6.

Last night’s episode also featured the dreaded “C” word out of Christina Lecuyer‘s mouth (btw, somebody scooped up christinalecuyer.com and it wasn’t Christina -oops! – hint to Kim, buy www.kimwelch.com now). I thought the Big Break producers would hype it up more but apparently they are saving some for next week’s episode. During the second challenge of the evening, Christina said that she hoped Tina choked on her shot to the green. When Tina missed her first shot, Christina practically shouted, “YES!” I guess fierce competition can bring the worst out of all of us. Or maybe Christina dreads the idea of being in the elimination round and will choke if she gets into one.

Cirbie and Tina faced off in episode 3’s elimination challenge which consisted of four stations around the green. Cirbie had at least one chance to put Tina away but couldn’t capitalize on it. Their second position was just an uphill chip to the flag and Tina chunked it way short. Cirbie, however, skulled another one and blew it way by.

I caught up on my Big Break watching last night. I recorded the first episode. I discovered you can watch a Big Break episode in about 45 minutes without commercials. You can probably watch it faster if you skip through all the “coming up next” scenes as well as the “here’s where we’ve already been” scenes. My big complaint with the Big Break is they chop it up way too much with commercials. Now I’ve got the DVR and will be watching all Big Break shows sans commercials. Bootiful!