Stephanie Sparks, an All-American faculty golf and former U.S. Curtis Cup participant who went on to co-host a number of Golf Channel packages, within the actuality present “Large Break,” died April 13 at 50. Residing most just lately in Orlando, Spark’s reason behind demise is unknown.
Sparks was born in Wheeling, W.Va., and had an achieved novice golf profession that included profitable the 1992 North and South Ladies’s Beginner and the 1993 Ladies’s Western Beginner and Ladies’s Japanese Beginner. She performed faculty golf a Duke College, incomes first-team All-American honors as a freshman and second-team as as sophomore. She later competed on the 1994 American Curtis Cup staff that tied Nice Britain & Eire at The Honors Course exterior Chattanooga, Tenn.
Accidents hampered the top of her faculty days in Durham and lingered as she turned professional. She performed one season on the LPGA Tour earlier than ending her profession. However golf remained a big a part of her life. In 2004, she performed the a part of Alexa Stirling within the film “Bobby Jones: Stroke of Genius.” And she or he turned a co-host of Golf Channel’s widespread actuality present “Large Break,” by which contestants competed for the fitting to play in professional occasions. She additionally appeared on the collection “Golf With Type” and “Enjoying Classes with the Professionals.”
“She had been an expert golfer herself,” Tom Abbott, Sparks co-host for seven years on the “Large Break,” instructed Golfweek, “so she knew what it was like for the contestants, and she or he needed them to succeed. She type of rode their feelings in a manner after we have been doing the present.
“She knew how powerful it was.”