This was a big week for Big Break alumni with both Tommy Gainey and Becky Lucidi making it through their respective Q-schools to earn their cards for the PGA and LPGA tours
His nickname among the players was the Eliminator but I called him Rasputin. Like the mad Russian monk, you just cant kill him. Every time you think hes done, he gets back up off of the ground and keeps going.
During my time at GOLF CHANNEL, with various seasons of the Big Break, I have been on location and a part of roughly 50 different player eliminations. Each one is hard to watch in its own way. It is a grueling and emotional process and when someone is eliminated from the show, you cant help but feel for them. This weeks elimination, though, takes the cake as the most surprising and unusual of them all.