Category: The Big Break

I’ve not been keeping up on the Big Break until last night’s episode.  Josh, Hiroshi and Brian played nine holes of straight up golf with the highest score being eliminated.  The turning point – Hiroshi missed a tap in at the par 5 fifth hole that pulled Josh to even.  Brian got to three under early with an eagle and cruised the rest of the way in.  Hiroshi and Josh tied through regulation and went back to number 8 for sudden death.  Neither hit great drives and Hiroshi’s second shot was in the left rough with the ball below his feet.  Facing a shot to the green over water, he tried to get real cute with it and fade it hard to the flag.  He ended up chunking it (imagine that, chunking a ball that is already below your feet) and it caught the end of the water.  To his credit, he put a 60 degree wedge to about a foot from there but all Josh had to do was two putt.   And the finals are set with Josh and Brian.  Brian was on his game last night.  If he maintains that level of play, he may be the new Big Break Champion. 

At the end of the third episode of the Big Break Mesquite, A-God, aka Anthony, blew a short putt sending his Ryder Cup team to a playoff. In the fourth episode, his team lost the playoff and was sent to elimination. A-God blew a 2 footer and found himself, despite his second place overall in points, off the Big Break Mesquite.

Don’t be surprised if they bring him back later on in the show. Villains always get the big ratings and the Big Break is no stranger to bowing to the ratings.

This season’s third episode of the Big Break Mesquite had to be one of the best that I’ve seen since the Pam vs. Danielle feudin’ days. Or perhaps since Don Donatello thought he could beat the world and wound up eliminated.

Hiroshi and Anthony (aka A-God), the current points leaders, were made captains and they had to choose four other players for their teams. Several guys were praying not to be chosen by A-God. The teams were pitted against each other as follows:

1 – two players from each team would square off in a two hole best ball match;
2 – two players from each team would square off in an alternate shot match;
3 – and finally each of the five players would square off against an opposing player in a singles match for one hole.

This episode also pushed me over the edge to get a DVR as they littered it with commercials. The Ryder Cup format made for some great tv, and The GolfChannel couldn’t have scripted a better ending as A-God had a 5-6 footer to win the hole match and he blew it, leading to sudden death on the next episode with the losing team going into the elimination round.