Such a shame. Such wonderful memories of him & Alan Knott, the latter with a handkerchief hanging out of his pocket, & of course grumpy Trevor Bailey on TMS.
Stephanie Sparks, longtime host of Golf Channel's reality series 'Big Break,' dies at 50
Longtime Golf Channel “Big Break” host Stephanie Sparks has died at the age of 50.
No cause of her April 13 death was listed in a story about Sparks' death on the NBC Sports website.
Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, to Robert and Janie Sparks, Mary Stephanie Sparks was an All-American collegiate golfer at Duke.
She won the 1992 North and South Women’s Amateur at Pinehurst and in the summer of 1993, rattled off victories at the Women’s Western Amateur, Women’s Eastern Amateur and the West Virginia State Amateur.
Sparks represented the U.S. on the 1994 Curtis Cup team and had a brief professional career that was plagued by injuries. She began her pro career on what’s now the Epson Tour and played only one season in the LPGA in 2000 before chronic back pain ultimately ended her career.
Sparks played the role of three-time U.S. Women’s Amateur champion Alexa Stirling in the 2004 movie “Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius” opposite Jim Caviezel.
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Stephanie Sparks, longtime host of Golf Channel's reality series 'Big Break,' dies at 50
Longtime Golf Channel “Big Break” host Stephanie Sparks has died at the age of 50.
No cause of her April 13 death was listed in a story about Sparks' death on the NBC Sports website.
Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, to Robert and Janie Sparks, Mary Stephanie Sparks was an All-American collegiate golfer at Duke.
She won the 1992 North and South Women’s Amateur at Pinehurst and in the summer of 1993, rattled off victories at the Women’s Western Amateur, Women’s Eastern Amateur and the West Virginia State Amateur.
Sparks represented the U.S. on the 1994 Curtis Cup team and had a brief professional career that was plagued by injuries. She began her pro career on what’s now the Epson Tour and played only one season in the LPGA in 2000 before chronic back pain ultimately ended her career.
Sparks played the role of three-time U.S. Women’s Amateur champion Alexa Stirling in the 2004 movie “Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius” opposite Jim Caviezel.
R.I.P Stephanie ....gone far too soon