The Big Break

Tom Abbott replaced Vince Cellini as the male host at Big Break Sandals Resorts in the spring of 2010.

In The Big Break I, the ten players took aim at their own pane of glass, and all of them stood at a driving range, and fired shots at once.

Sean Daly (won the glass breaking competition), Shelby Chrest, and John Turke were the ones responsible for eliminating Don.

In The Big Break III: Ladies Only, the winner of the challenge got first choice of the room in which they would stay during their tenure on the show (this, too, is explained below).

For The Big Break V: Hawaii, the challenge was returned to its call-out format, but with a twist: when a player broke someone else's glass, they would keep shooting until they missed.

In The Big Break IV: USA vs. Europe, the losing team in the Immunity Challenge had all of its members pitted against each other to stay alive.

The ten hopefuls for the first season were: The show was hosted by Phil Mickelson's swing coach, Rick Smith, and Katherine Roberts.

The ten contestants were: (In Order of Elimination) The Big Break II was the Golf Channel's highest rated show in its history of all programming.

The winner of this edition would receive exemptions into two LPGA events and a celebrity tournament (the American Century Championship) in 2005, not all of which aired on the Golf Channel.

The ten hopefuls for the third season were: Vince Cellini and Stephanie Sparks, who once briefly played on the LPGA Tour herself, became the show's new hosts.

In addition to her exemptions and $5,000 gift card from Golf Galaxy, Amiee also won a new Chrysler Crossfire, which she gave to a friend who had helped her financially.

The second round was pushed back a day due to rain, where Amiee shot 77, missing the cut in her first LPGA event.

Dowling says her golfing hero is the great Canadian professional, Moe Norman, who died on September 4, 2004, over a month before the show began taping.

On March 22, 2005, The Big Break All-Star Challenge debuted, featuring four members of the Boston Red Sox.

Jay Kossoff, the senior producer of The Big Break, told The Charlotte Observer at the taping of the first NASCAR edition, "We had a lot of celebrities apply for spots in the original shows, so we figured it was a neat idea to do something like this — let's take the next step."

The twelve hopefuls (including The Big Break II contestant Bart Lower) were taken to Scotland's Carnoustie, and the Old Course in St Andrews to compete for exemptions into two European Tour events (the Algarve Open de Portugal and the Celtic Manor Wales Open), an endorsement deal with Bridgestone Golf, a two-year lease on a Ford Explorer, and a $5,000 gift card from Dick's Sporting Goods.

The final two were determined in a double-elimination episode, in which Woodman defeated Blankvoort and Holtby manhandled Valentine in separate 9-hole matchplay challenges.

Another European team member, Gardino, has caddied in two Ryder Cups (1999 and 2002), carrying bags for players like Sergio García, Miguel Ángel Jiménez, and José María Olazábal.

The Big Break V: Hawaii was another "ladies only" edition, and was filmed from October 16 to the 30, 2005, in Hawaii on the North Shore of Oahu at the Turtle Bay Resort, site of the LPGA's SBS Open at Turtle Bay, and premiered on February 7, 2006, a day short of the first anniversary of the premiere of The Big Break III.

This Big Break contained the show's largest prize package yet: the lone LPGA exemption will be into the 2006 Safeway Classic.

The package contained exemptions into all remaining 2006 Futures Tour events, golfing instruction from Dean Reinmuth, fitness training from former show host Roberts, and mental coaching from Dr. Gio Valiante.

The sixth edition The Big Break taped in late June and early July 2006 at the Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles.

On the ladies' side, Briana Vega defeated Bridget Dwyer by a score of 3 and 1, while Denny Hepler needed a 19th hole to finally clinch a win over Jeff Mitchell.

Premiering October 2, 2007, this season returned to the original format of 12 men competing for the title: Rick Schwartz and Stephanie Sparks were the hosts.

The winner received an exemption into the 2008 Navistar LPGA Classic, entry fees to all 2009 Futures Tour tournaments waived, an Adams Golf endorsement deal, and a BMW Z4 Coupe.

Contestants: In the exciting finale, Carling Coffing made a 25-foot birdie putt on the 17th hole to take the lead over Lili Alvarez.

If a male player is MVP, he will win an exemption to the PGA Tour Justin Timberlake Shriners Hospitals for Children Open in Las Vegas.

The winner of the Big Break Dominican Republic was Blair O'Neal and she won $50,000 and other prizes including an LPGA exemption while the rest of her team split another $50,000.

The NFL players were Mark Rypien, Jerry Rice, Tim Brown, Marc Bulger, Al Del Greco, and Chris Doleman.

The Big Break Invitational was supposed to be an annual event, but in 2015 NBC, parent company of The Golf Channel, decided they wanted to go in a different direction with the show.