Big Break Episode 3 Sees Former Detroit Titan David Byrne Make His Shots

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ORLANDO, Fla. -- For the third straight episode, David Byrne had to play the second immunity challenge, but just like the first two, the former Titan President Award winner and 2010 Horizon League Player of the Year was able to stick his shots on the Golf Channel's reality television show, Big Break Indian Wells.

Byrne moves on to episode four along with seven other contests. The show airs on Monday's at 9 p.m.

Fans who missed last night's episode - titled Money CAN Buy Happiness - can catch the rerun a number of times this week, including tonight at 5 p.m., Thursday at 7:30 p.m., and Friday at 1 a.m. For more times when the show will air, including the first two episodes of Big Break Indian Wells, click here.

The first challenge was the famous “Glass Breaking” challenge, which divided the nine players into three teams. Byrne played with Carl Whyte and Robbie “Shank” Biershank - who was actually the team captain and selected his squad in a draft process - and although Byrne was able to knock out two other players by breaking their glass, that group was eventually eliminated and forced to face the next group in the second challenge.

The second challenge tested the players range and accuracy as the six remaining players squared off as teams and individuals, with the golfer accumulating the lowest points in each group forced to play in the elimination challenge. Each player was about 130 yards away from the green as two rings circled the hole creating three point systems. Shots that fall outside the first ring but on the green was worth one point, inside the first ring two points and inside the smaller second ring close to the hole totaled three points. The players had two shots from two positions to tally their points, but if their shot did not land on the green, they earned zero points and that club was eliminated from the rest of the competition.

Byrne actually saw his first shot get on the green for a point, but his second shot went off costing him his pitching wedge. On the second position, Byrne regrouped and, using his 9-iron, put both his shots inside the larger first ring for four points, avoiding the elimination challenge.

Episode four saw Justin Wells eliminated leaving eight players alive for the Big Break Championship.

The Big Break is a 10-episode series that was shot at Indian Wells Golf Resort in Indian Wells, CA. It started with 11 contestants competing for a chance to earn as much as $55,000 in cash prizes as well as the grand prize of receiving an exemption to a 2012 PGA TOUR event, the Zurich classic of New Orleans. Other prizes for the winner include a paid trip for two back to the Indian Wells Golf Resort, an Adams golf endorsement deal, 10,000 cash, and a 10,000 Shopping spree to Dicks Sporting goods.

 

Courtesy of P.J. Gradowski, Detroit Sports Information