Among our favorite TV shows are those about two of our favorite things, golf and Hawaii. Okay, so, why is the shot above a beautiful Hawaii sunset and a silhouetted surfer chick looking off in the distance?
Good question, glad you asked.
It's a scenic shot from one of our favorite TV shows, the Big Break V that airs on The Golf Channel. New episodes air every Tuesday night, 9 p.m. Eastern time then repeat throughout the week. (Check your local listings).
The Golf Channel, golf's home page! Screen grabs used here are courtesy The Golf Channel. If you don't get it on the system where you live, bug your cable company.
The Big Break V is a reality show about women competing in Hawaii for one spot in one tournament on the LPGA tour. And it's really starting to get interesting.
Shot on location at Turtle Bay Resort, the program started out with 11 young, attractive women golfers, and on each show they compete in a number of tests of golf skill. The low member on the totem pole at the end gets kicked off the island.
Learn more about the individual contestants at TGC's BBV web site.
On this week's show, former U.S. Amateur Champion, Becky Lucidi is left taking the long walk home. For more on her, check out Tod Leonard's piece from the Jan. 10 edition of the San Diego Union-Tribune.
What did Becky in? Her inability to consistently knock it on or close to the pin from one of three bunkers.
Each player gets two shots at hitting the bunker shot. Shots within a circle closest to the pin are awarded five points. The second nearest circle is worth three, a third circle, two, and anyone on the green but outside the circle gets one point.
Fail to get out of the bunker, to the green or overshoot it, and you're skunked.
Lucidi didn't start hitting decent bunker shots until the final, greenside bunker, when it was too late. (Her last shot finished just outside the five-point circle, which, had it made it, would have put her into a sudden death playoff with one other).
Instead, it's the long walk off the show.
We enjoy this show, and don't normally enjoy any of the other so-called "reality" shows. In too many of those, whoever loses is kicked off based upon someone's subjective judgment of talent, or business skills or team-building or popularity, or whatever.
In the Big Break V, it's a lot more straightforward and interesting. You make the shots when they count, you live to play another day. Miss 'em, and you're heading home.
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