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.

Golf Channel’s Tom Abbott labored seven seasons with Sparks as a co-host on the favored “Large Break” sequence. Abbott, who’s on the printed group this week on the Chevron Championship, lauded Sparks’ work ethic.

“She had been an expert golfer herself,” he stated, “so she knew what it was like for the contestants, and she or he needed them to succeed. She sort of rode their feelings in a approach after we have been doing the present.

“She knew how powerful it was.”

Sparks’ Kepner Funeral Houses obituary web page notes that she was an advocate for hospice take care of the final a number of years of her life and supported Libby’s Legacy Breast Most cancers Basis and the Barber Fund in Orlando.