Tag: The Big Break Ka’anapali

I went over to The Golf Channel’s Big Break page and just watched Lori Atsedes’ exit interview. Stina Sternberg asked her if she had one piece of advice to give Christina. Lori responded:

That golf isn’t personal. It’s a business. And when I’m on the golf course, I’m in my office. When I’m in my office, I’m very particular about where things should go and how they should go there. And when you’re off the golf course, we’re back to let’s have a glass of wine and have dinner and be friends and there’s a fine balance there. And the younger players have a hard time not taking things personally when it comes to business.

Episode 11 on The Big Break Ka’anapali featured six holes of stroke play golf among our final three participants – Kim, Lori and Sophie. The first two holes are a par 5 and a short par 4. Kim bombs it past the other two players on the par 5 but fails to take advantage of her length. All three players par the hole. Kim pulls a four iron out of the bag for the next hole, a short par 4. She basically cancels out her advantage. Lori three putts. Kim and Sophie make par.

Ok, Tina Miller blew away the competition and has been voted the hottest Big Break contestant to have graced The Golf Channel. Valeria Ochoa finished a distant runner-up. Surprisingly, Sophie Sandolo received no votes despite her risqué calendar.

Now it’s time to vote for who you think will win tonight’s Big Break Kaanapali stroke play match to get into the final.

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Well, we’re down to three, so let’s rank ’em.

3. Lori “Stinkeye” Atsedes – Despite being the season points leader, I have to rank Lori last. How old is she anyways? 43? She’s a future’s tour lifer, and there’s a reason for that – she just don’t have the game. Too bad Christina didn’t sink that first putt in the elimination round, Lori may have folded after falling one behind early. The question is will Lori turn her petty etiquette games on Sophie and Kim now that Christina is gone? Probably. Sophie won’t crack but Kim may get a little edgy.

2. “Sexy” Sophie Sandolo – She seems to be the coolest under pressure but Kim just cleaned her clock in the head to head matchup in Episode 10.

1. Kim “Here Kitty Kitty” Welch – The putter came alive for Kitty Welch in the last episode. Can it stay hot for one more show? If it does, Kitty will wipe up the floor with Sophie and Lori. Kim has too much power and a great short game. Only Sophie stands a chance against her.

Here’s a question for ya? How would Danielle Aimee and Pam have fared against the likes of these gals?

Sometimes the bad guys (girls) win and things don’t work out like they should. Lori and Sophie have been complete bitches to Christina yet Christina gets eliminated. Oh well, it’s a shame they are still on the show.

Next week is the final between Lori, Sophie and Kim. Not sure it’s even worth watching as the winner will have to feel like a heel after all that’s gone on.

Player rankings after week 8 (week 7 ranking in parens):

5 (5) – Lori “Stinkeye” Atsedes – talks a Don Donatello game and suffers from the same flaw – overconfidence. Got lucky that Kim got nervous. Has she been in an elimination yet? When she gets in one, will she choke?

4 (2) – Christina “The Cocky Kanuke” Lecuyer moves down two spots. She sank a long birdie putt to stay in the competition but that swing can’t hold up under pressure. It’s too loose. First player to hit a terrible shot on the show, except maybe Cirbie. Christina topped a fairway wood big time in last week’s elimination but managed to survive.

3 (6) Susan “Dippin’ Dots” Choi – Sophie was scared to play her and she whacked Samantha. We’ve got to give her more respect. If she puts on a good showing in episode nine, I’ve got to move her to number 1.

1 (1) – Kim “Here Kitty, Kitty” Welch has to share the numero uno spot after Stinkeye trounced her. Plus why hit a 4 iron into a par 5? Poor decision-making and putting is killing her. Needs to get hot with the putter soon to make it to the end.

1 (3) – “Sexy” Sophie Sandolo easily vanquished Christina. Where do we put her? Back on top? – except she was scared to play Susan. She’ll share the top spot with Kitty Welch.

I predict Lori will not avoid the elimination round, and her overconfidence will lead her home.

I’m getting a lot of people coming to the site looking for news of rumors about a Big Break Ka’anapali winner or who the winner is. Did someone leak out the winner’s name early? My guess is that it’s going to be Susan Choi. She’s not long off the tee but she’s got all the shots.

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.