The Big Break VI: Trump National

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The Big Break VI: Trump National was the sixth edition of The Golf Channel's popular reality television series, The Big Break. The show awards exemptions into selected events on major professional golf tours.

This is the first time the show was held at a course in California: Donald Trump's Trump National Golf Club in Los Angeles. Trump made a cameo appearance in the season premiere, in addition to appearing periodically throughout the show. This is also the first mixed-gender edition of the show. Nine men and nine women competed for exemptions onto the Champions Tour and LPGA Tour, respectively. The two Champions Tour events the men competed to qualify for were the Turtle Bay Championship and the Bank of America Championship, while the two LPGA events the women competed for entry into were the SBS Open at Turtle Bay and the Longs Drugs Challenge. [1]

The show was taped in June and July 2006, and premiered on September 26, 2006 with the matchplay final broadcast on December 19, 2006.

[edit] The contestants

Women:

Rachel Bailey, age 25, Faulconbridge, New South Wales, Australia. FUTURES Tour player.
Bridget Dwyer, age 25, Kailua, Hawaii. FUTURES Tour player.
Ashley Gomes, age 23, Pleasanton, California. 2004 Western Athletic Conference individual champion for San Jose State University. FUTURES Tour player.
Sarah Johnston, age 24, St. Charles, Illinois. FUTURES Tour player. Qualified for the 2007 LPGA Tour after filming of The Big Break VI.
Laura London, age 25, Scottsdale, Arizona. Played on FUTURES Tour from 1999 to 2001.
Annie Mallory, age 23, Fredricton, New Brunswick, Canada. FUTURES Tour player.
Kristy McPherson, age 25, Conway, South Carolina. FUTURES Tour player.
Karyn Stordahl-Utecht, age 25, Prior Lake, Minnesota. Former player for the University of Minnesota; Miss Minnesota in 2005.
Briana Vega, age 23, North Andover, Massachusetts. FUTURES Tour player. Winner of 2004 Massachusetts Amateur.

Men:

Sid Corliss, age 56, Cumming, Georgia. Sun Belt Senior Tour player.
Albert Crews, age 54, Homer, Louisiana. Qualified for 2005 U.S. Senior Open.
Charlie Gibson, age 52, Windsor, California. Former All-American at Arizona State University.
Denny Helper, age 50, Warsaw, Indiana. Former Malaysian Open winner
Jeff Mitchell, age 51, Frisco, Texas. 1980 Phoenix Open winner. 1980 first round co-leader at The Masters.
Kelly Murray, age 50, Reston, Virginia. Holds world record for longest recorded drive (684.8 yards).
Gary Ostrega, age 52, Westfield, New Jersey. Played on the PGA Tour from 1977 to 1979.
Rocky Rockett, age 54, Gastonia, North Carolina. Sun Belt Senior Tour all-time leading money winner.
Gavin Slabbert, age 51, Orange Park, Florida. Heartland Tour player.