Andrew Magee
Co-Host
Andrew Magee will be co-hosting his first Big Break. The Paradise Valley, Ariz. resident joined GOLF CHANNEL in 2007 as an analyst for The Approach with Callaway Golf and for the Sprint Pre/Post-Game shows.
A four-time winner on the PGA TOUR, Magee’s first victory came in 1988 at the Pensacola Open. In 1991, he won two events and was awarded Golf Digest’s Most Improved Golfer Award. His most recent win was at the 1994 Northern Telecom Open.
Born in Paris, France, where his father was working at the time as a geologist for Mobile Oil, Magee is the only golfer in PGA TOUR history to record a hole-in-one on a par-4 hole during a TOUR event. He did this with a driver at the 332-yard, 17th hole at the 2001 Phoenix Open when his ball caromed off Tom Byrum’s putter on its way to the bottom of the cup. Byrum, in the group ahead, was squatting down looking over a putt.
In February 2006, Magee underwent surgery to remove a cancerous tumor from his left kidney at the Cleveland Clinic in Cleveland, Ohio. The operation was successful and he was out playing on the TOUR in April.
Along with professional golfers Scott Verplank and Brian Watts, Magee runs ClubCorp Pro-Am in Dallas, Texas, to benefit health clinics at his former junior high school. He received the 1999 Southern Company Citizens Award for his work with charities.
In addition, Magee and CBS sports analyst Gary McCord organized the Santa Claus Classic, a charity event in the Phoenix area that buys and delivers toys to needy children.
Stina Sternberg
Co-Host
Co-hosting her first Big Break, Golf For Women Senior Editor Stina Sternberg, who joined the magazine in 2000 after a one-year stint as assistant editor of Golf Digest Woman, is a former teaching pro and professional club fitter. A 2001 recipient of the International Network of Golf’s Equipment Writing Award, Sternberg heads up GFW’s instruction and equipment coverage and writes the popular “Glad You Asked” advice column. In 2004, she hosted “Two Days in Paradise,” a monthly travel segment on USA Network’s PGA TOUR Sunday. Currently, she serves as host for the GOLF CHANNEL’s Golf With Style: Global Challenge, the cable network’s in-depth tour of the world’s most luxurious and glamorous destinations, and was a panelist on Fore Inventors Only.
Prior to entering the publishing industry, Sternberg was owner and head golf professional of the Great Golf Pro Shop and Indoor Teaching Center in Westport, Conn., where she personally conducted more than 600 lessons a year. Simultaneously, she was the co-owner and pro shop director of Sisjo Golf Club in Gothenburg, Sweden.
In 1993, Sternberg spent a year as host and field reporter for the Sportnytt sports show on Swedish Network Television in Stockholm, Sweden. In the years following, she moonlighted as a freelance New York correspondent for Swedish television and radio, reporting on American sports and entertainment news and hosting a weekly radio segment called “Stina’s Report from New York.”
Sternberg was a member of the PGA of Sweden’s teaching division from 1996 to 2000. She began playing golf at the age of 7 and entered the golf industry as a 14-year-old, repairing golf clubs in pro shops on weekends and holidays.
