Stephanie Sparks, Golf Channel ‘Big Break’ host, dies at 50

Longtime Golf Channel “Large Break” host Stephanie Sparks has died on the age of fifty.

No reason for her April 13 dying was listed in a narrative about Sparks’ dying on the NBC Sports activities web site.

Born in Wheeling, West Virginia, to Robert and Janie Sparks, Mary Stephanie Sparks was an All-American collegiate golfer at Duke.

She received the 1992 North and South Ladies’s Beginner at Pinehurst and in the summertime of 1993, rattled off victories on the Ladies’s Western Beginner, Ladies’s Jap Beginner and the West Virginia State Beginner.

Sparks represented the U.S. on the 1994 Curtis Cup group and had a quick skilled profession that was affected by accidents. She started her professional profession on what’s now the Epson Tour and performed just one season within the LPGA in 2000 earlier than power again ache in the end ended her profession.

Sparks performed the function of three-time U.S. Ladies’s Beginner champion Alexa Stirling within the 2004 film “Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius” reverse Jim Caviezel.

Along with the “Large Break” actuality sequence, Sparks hosted the “Golf with Fashion” sequence on Golf Channel in addition to “Enjoying Classes with the Execs.” She additionally did some on-camera reporting at tournaments.

Throughout her aggressive days, Sparks wrote participant diaries for Golfweek, providing an inside look into tour life.