Big Break Florida

A new season of Big Break debuted on Golf Channel last week, and I was finally able to catch up with the first  two episodes this morning.  As you can see from the picture above, this show takes place in Florida (Amelia Island), and features 12 women contestants vying for their "big break".

Brit Tom Abbot is back as the breathless host, and his co-host this time around is Melanie Collins of Yahoo Sports.  The show still features all sorts of golf skills challenges including the Big Break signature event, chipping golf balls through panes of glass.  It never gets old!  In the first show there was a new twist to the Elimination Challenge.  Only one contestant was involved. They had her tee it up on a par five.  If she scored par or better, she was saved and would go on to the next show.  If she bogeyed the hole, she was eliminated.  Sounds simple, but it was pretty good theater.

In prior iterations of this show, it takes a couple of weeks and a couple of contestants being eliminated before you really get a handle on who's who and develop a rooting interest for one or more of the players, and that will be the case here.  There is, however, one exception to that in Big Break Florida.  As with all such shows, a "villain" is required, and this role has fallen to 24 year old Mary Narzisi.  She is clearly, and I'm sorry, but I don't know how else to say this, the least attractive of the 12 ladies on the show, she is constantly being bleeped because of her cursing, she continually says how the other players "piss her off", and she behaves in an unsportsmanlike manner with her opponents that defies all known golf course etiquette.  I will be cheering mightily each week for her elimination.

Only two episodes have been shown thus far, but if you look hard enough, Golf Channel is always rerunning past episodes, and even if you don't find them, it is early enough in the series for you to still be able to get caught up in it.  New episodes air Monday nights at 9:00 PM Eastern on Golf Channel.

Enjoy.