Several current and past members of the Duramed FUTURES Tour will kick off the Golf Channel’s ninth reality golf show this Tuesday, April 15, when “Big Break Ka’ anapali” premieres at 10 p.m. E.T. The new show was filmed last fall in Ka’ anapali, Hawaii, and will include current Duramed FUTURES Tour members COURTNEY ERDMAN of Altadena, Calif., LIZ STUART of Tampa, Fla., KIM WELCH of Sacramento, LORI ATSEDES of Ithaca, N.Y., SAMANTHA HEAD of Bedford, England, and SUSAN CHOI of Natick, Mass. Former Duramed FUTURES Tour members ADRIENNE GAUTREAUX of Mabank, Texas, and TINA MILLER of Miami also are in the 12-woman cast.
“I was really nervous at the start, but then I told myself that they picked me for a reason and to just be myself,” said Stuart, who visited Hawaii for the first time during the filming. “I have no idea how I will be portrayed in the show, but I hope I’m seen as just the laid-back, raw talent, poor kid trying to grind her way through it to get somewhere.”
How characters are portrayed is always interesting in the Big Break show, but Atsedes says viewers have to remember one thing: “It’s television and then it’s golf.”
“I’ve been labeled a lot of things … ‘drama queen’ and ‘trouble maker,’ but it’s entertainment,” Atsedes added. “ And we just happen to be golfers.”
Normally shy, Welch admits that she is “nervous, excited and anxious to see how the show’s producers put it all together.” She also says she tries “not to care,” but can’t help but worry.
“I don’t really know what to expect, but it’s going to be weird watching myself on TV,” she said.
Erdman is more concerned about what she will be saying on the show. During filming one day, she and Miller were sitting in a golf cart having a candid conversation when they realized everything they had said was on tape.
“We were just gossiping like girls do and we forgot our mikes were on,” said Erdman, who was in Hawaii filming and away from husband Kevin Erdman during their third wedding anniversary.
Head, who will be back in Europe this week when the show premieres, won’t get to watch it on live TV as she prepares for the 2008 season on the Ladies European Tour.
“I hope it’s going to be shown on the Internet,” said Head, who played the first two Duramed FUTURES Tour events before returning to Europe. “I’m really jealous because all the girls will be able to watch it together in Lafayette (La.). The show will probably go to England at the end of the year.”
But Head did laugh at the thought of how the current show could create a new twist for her twin sister Johanna Head, an LPGA Tour member.
“Now, instead of people saying to me, ‘Oh, you’re Jo’s sister,’ now they will probably say to my sister on the LPGA Tour, ‘Oh, you must be Sam’s sister,” she laughed. “I really like that thought.”
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