Bart Lower - "Big Break IV" Contestant

Now married with a new baby and living in Naples, Fla., he spends his days establishing his new career in residential home sales and his evenings enjoying married life and fatherhood.

As a small-town boy, Bart was introduced to the wide-open spaces of golf when he was 6 years old. At 12, he started to take the game seriously, riding his bicycle to the golf course every day during summer vacation.

Out of high school, he was recruited by Huntingdon College – a small NAIA school in Alabama and the alma mater of PGA Tour player Joe Durant – but he finished his college career at Eastern Michigan University, wanting to be closer to home.

He was on a fast track in golf until a college tournament round with Luke Donald – then a standout golfer for Northwestern University and now a rising star on the PGA Tour – put doubts in his mind about how good he actually was. Bart began to question his own abilities comparatively and decided to reevaluate his career path.

Not long after, a friend that owned a local driving range offered him a chance to buy the business, but not the land on which it was located. Liking the idea, but not the deal, Bart bought 10 acres from his uncle and cleared the land himself with a rented bulldozer, and Bart's Golf Center was born.

A firm believer in charity, Bart has donated all the money he has won playing golf over the years – even friendly bets during rounds with friends – to the Mercy Corps to feed the hungry. Any future winnings will be used for the same.

"There are people in the world that won't wake up tomorrow because they have no food," he said. "If this silly game can help prevent that from happening, then I'm going to use it to pitch in as much as I can."