Lori’s true colors really came out in Episode 9 of The Big Break Ka’anapali. We start at breakfast where Lori leads an attack against Christina. Kim and Sophie join in and Susan remains silent. Apparently, they are all hacked off about Samantha getting eliminated, and want to blame Christina for stepping on Samantha’s putting line and for lining up a putt while Samantha was lining up her putt. I had no respect for Lori before this incident and lost respect for Kim and Sophie.
What’s funny is Christina has become less of the bad guy and more of the victim because of the attacks on her by the others. I’m actually rooting for Christina now.
Lori continues the barrage against Christina during one of the challenges. She accuses Christina of tamping down a divot (left by the previous competitor) before Christina hit her shot. Normally, this might be an issue in regular stroke play but, in this particular challenge, the competitor could place the ball in any part of the boxed off zone – so what’s the difference? As a result, Christina lost four points and was pretty much mentally out of the rest of the competition.
The problem with Lori is she doesn’t know when to stop. The initial challenge in episode nine involved three different scoring stations. The competitors’ scores at each station would be added to their total season score to determine the winner of the $20,000 points race. Lori led by two points over Sophie. At one of the stations, Lori accused Sophie of testing the line on the green prior to her shot. It was clear that Sophie was not walking along the intended line. Lori made her accusation prior to Sophie hitting the shot so, instead of points being taken away from Sophie, Sophie had to deal with the added pressure of Lori’s accusation during her shot. Sophie handled the pressure and still made the shot. Lori’s accusation against Sophie may result in Lori losing her backing from the other women in her attack against Christina.
Lori did end up winning the season long points race but received almost inaudible applause from her competitors. Sophie won the overall challenge and was safe from elimination. This meant that Lori, Kim, Susan and Christina went into the elimination with Susan being eliminated.
Tomorrow’s show should be even more interesting as it pits Kim against Sophie and Lori against Christina. Kim and Sophie, in my opinion, are the strongest competitors and probably should be in the final against each other. The next episode will result in one of the strongest competitors being eliminated.