GOLF'S LITTLE BOOK of - Trashmasters Scholarship Fund

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GOLF'S LITTLE BOOK of - Trashmasters Scholarship Fund
GOLF’S
     LITTLE BOOK
                      of

    TRASH
    The World’s Most Unique Golf Tournament®

Official Rules & Scoring for the Trashmasters
GOLF'S LITTLE BOOK of - Trashmasters Scholarship Fund
QUICK POINT                                                                  BONUS TRASH
         REFERENCE GUIDE                                                     Combinations of Trash made on individual holes
                                                                             shall earn the player bonus Trash points as follows:
Trash Event               Points      Trash Event               Points       •   ny two 1-point Trash earns 1 bonus point.
                                                                                A
Arnie.........................13      Super Greenie.............3            •  Any three 1-point Trash earns 2 bonus points.
Barkie..........................1     Jerrie............................1    •   Any four 1-point Trash earns 3 bonus points.
Billie............................2   Otis..............................1    •   Any five or more 1-point Trash earns 5 bonus
Bipsic...........................1    Polie.............................1         points.
Birdie (Gross)..............2         Rico.............................1     • Any multi-point Trash and one 1-point Trash
Birdie (Net).................1        Rockie.........................2            earns 2 bonus points (Ex : Drinkie plus Barkie:
Daly.............................2    Sandie..........................1           3 points+ 1 point+ 2 bonus points = 6 points.)
Drinkie........................3      Seve..............................1    • Any multi-point Trash and two 1-point Trash
Eagle (Gross)...............5         Skandie........................1            earns 3 bonus points.
Eagle (Net)..................3        Skippie.........................3      • Any one multi-point Trash and three or more
Genie (Gross)............10           Stiffie............................3        1-point Trash earns 4 bonus points.
Genie (Net).................7         Super Stiffie................5         •T  wo or more multi-point Trash earns 3 bonus
Super Genie (Net)....13               Watson........................3           points.
Super Genie (Gross).15                Super Watson.............5             • Two or more multi-point Trash and one or
Greenie........................1      Willie...........................2        more 1-point Trash earns 4 bonus points.
GOLF'S LITTLE BOOK of - Trashmasters Scholarship Fund
Trash points earned must be immediately
              TRASHMASTERS                     confirmed by the player’s partners without
                                               argument. Details of the earned Trash
              INTERNATIONAL                    must be recorded on the player’s Official
                                               Trashmaster Scorecard. Any disputes
                                               regarding Trash earned shall be resolved
The Trashmasters Golf Tournament is            by the Official Tournament Scorekeeper.
scored using the “Modified Trash Scoring       All Men shall play from the white tees.
System”. This rule book shall constitute the   Women shall play from the forward tees.
only valid rules for the event unless such     With the exception of scoring as covered
rules are subsequently modified or altered     in this Official Rule Book, the USGA
by the Trashmasters Board of Directors.        Official Rules of Golf will govern.
No Trash points shall be earned on any hole    Trash collected by striking objects may
on which the player fails to record a score    not be earned while putting.
of net par or better including a Polie.
                                               No net Arnies shall be scored.
Net par shall be calculated using 100% of
the players handicap subtracted from the       ATTENTION: No looking for lost balls.
player’s score, one stroke per hole, in the    For all hazards and OB: drop a ball with a
order of the course’s hole handicap rating.    1 stroke penalty and make Daly or Rico.
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ARNIE                                          BARKIE
Honoring The King,                       Honoring Actor Robert Wagner,
  Arnold Palmer                          who conceived the Barkie in 1986

“
This is a very special
tournament and,
a worthy charity.
~ Dan Quayle,
   Former Vice-President
                                         “  It is an honor and a
                                            privilege to support
                                            this fabulous charity.
                                            ~ Robert Wagner
   of the United States

                                     !
                    A hole in one!
                !          An Ace!
                                         A player earns a Barkie if the player’s
                                         ball strikes a tree, bush or shrub, or any
                            One!         part thereof.
                                         Only one Barkie may be earned per stroke
                    ¡Ay Caramba!
                                         even if many trees are hit with a single shot.

                    13 POINTS                                  1 POINT
BILLIE                                                     BIPSIC
At dinner following
VP Dan Quayle’s
inaugural round
during the 1997
Trashmasters, he
suggested a new
category to honor
President Bill Clinton.

A Billie is earned when a player has a lie
so bad (unplayable), that it could endanger   If you are BIPSIC, please move on to
the player’s reputation and/or game plan.     the next hole! For those who don’t know,
All will be forgiven, however, following a    BIPSIC means —
drop for the unplayable lie (and the normal        “Ball in pocket, Schmuck in Cart.”
penalty incurred), thereby receiving a        If you are over your net par, pick up and
perfect lie.                                  move on. BIPSIC cannot be used to Boonie.

                   2 POINTS                                 1 POINT
BIRDIE                                            BOONIE
                                                                      AKA The “Aloha”
                                                                      “Double or Nothing”
                                                                      The Ultimate Risk-Reward

“
                                                  ONCE, during your 18-hole round, you can
                                                  double the value of the Trash points earned
 Looks like you’ve                                from the previous hole by announcing, prior
 got a sick group of                              to your tee shot on the following hole, you
 golfers breeding
                                                  are playing for a Boonie. You must collect at
 in Aspen.
                                                  least one Trash point on the following hole.
 ~ Gary McCord
    CBS Golf Analyst                              If you fail to score a Trash point on the
                                                  following hole, thereby failing to qualify for
                                                  the Boonie, you lose all the Trash points
                                                  scored on the previous hole.
If you don’t know this one, your chances          When scoring a Boonie, the Trash points
of slipping on a gold jacket are slim, at best.   earned on the previous hole are added (or
You cannot receive a Gross Birdie and Net         subtracted) on that hole only. The Trash
Eagle on the same hole.                           collected on the following hole to qualify for
                                                  the Boonie stands alone for purposes of Bonus
          Net Birdie: 1 POINT                     Trash. BIPSIC cannot be used to Boonie.
         Gross Birdie: 2 POINTS
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     DALY                                           DRINKIE
    Honoring John Daly
                                                                                           H!
(for those long and wrong!)                                                       SPL AS

                                                       “
      AT TENTION:
    No looking for lost                                The Trashmasters is
     balls. All hazards
      and OB: drop a
                                                       SPECTACULAR!
     ball with a 1 stoke                               ~ Jim Nantz
     penalty and make           Sooner or later           CBS Sports
       Daly or Rico.          everybody’s BIPSIC!

                                                    A Drinkie is earned by a player for each
 A Daly is earned after hitting one’s ball out      shot played that incurs a penalty stroke for
 of bounds or losing one’s ball, incurring the      being in a WATER hazard.
 stroke and distance penalty, and making            You cannot have Drinkie and Skippie on
 net par or better.                                 the same shot.

                    2 POINTS                                           3 POINTS
EAGLE                                                       GENIE
Honoring Tiger Woods                                       Honoring Gene Sarazen

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                                                            for his famous Double

“
                                                          Eagle at the 1935 Masters.

                                                            “
The Trashmasters
scholarships make
things happen!                                               Look out Augusta!
~Kathy Klug                                                 ~ James Achenbach
 Aspen High School                                              GOLFWEEK
 College Counselor
                               REMEMBER:
                            If you are BIPSIC,
                     please mo  ve on to the next hole!     A player earns a Genie by scoring
                                                            three strokes below par.
A player earns an Eagle by scoring two                      A Super Genie is scoring 4 strokes
strokes below par.                                          below par.
You cannot receive a Net Eagle and a                           Net Genie: 7 POINTS
Gross Birdie on one hole.
                                                             Gross Genie: 10 POINTS
        Net Eagle: 3 POINTS                                 Net Super Genie: 13 POINTS
       Gross Eagle: 5 POINTS                               Gross Super Genie: 15 POINTS
GREENIE                                      JERRIE
                                             Honoring President
                                             Gerald Ford,
                                             famous for hitting
                                             all kinds of things
                                             while playing golf.

A Greenie is earned by the player in a
foursome whose first stroke is closest to
the pin on a par 3 hole. Ball must be on
the green and the player must make net
par or better.
                                            A player earns a Jerrie by striking any
(Does not transfer to next closest          object not otherwise described herein,
foursome member in the event the            including a golf cart.
Trash is not earned.)
                                            For purposes of this rule, any object
Super Greenie: Reaching the green on        includes (but is not limited to) humans,
a par 4 making gross par or better. (You    bridges, outhouses, fences, sprinkler
cannot score an Otis with a Greenie).       control boxes, signs, hotels, windows,
                                            condos, furniture, rakes, stakes, flagsticks...
       Greenie: 1 POINT
    Super Greenie: 3 POINTS                                  1 POINT
JERRIE                                       OTIS
         Continued...                         Think “up and down”
                                                ...like an elevator

“
The tour players love to
play Trash when we’re
out there for fun.
~ Scott Simpson
   US Open Champion
                                              When a Trashmaster gets up and down
                                              from off the green in two shots. The first
...watercoolers, golf course rangers, dogs,   stroke with a lofted club and the second
bears, automobiles, dirt dogs and/or their    stroke a putt, for net par or better. (A
equipment, and any object to which you        chip-in is not an Otis as it is a Watson.)
can coerce your foursome to agree.            REMEMBER: You cannot score Otis with
Only one Jerrie may be earned on each         a tee shot on a par three. Nor an Otis be
stroke, although multiple Jerries may be      recorded for a Super Greenie (Driving the
earned on a single hole.                      green on a par-4).

                      1 POINT                                   1 POINT
POLIE                                                 RICO

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                                                Named after Rico Suave, famous
                                                international fashion plate and
                                                 Trashmasters Extraordinaire

OF COURSE: If you are BIPSIC
please move on to the nex t hol
                                ,
                                e!
                                                  “
                                                  AWESOME!
                                                  ~ David Feherty
                                                     GOLF Channel

                                                           AT TENTION: No looking for lost
                                                                                             balls.
                                                           All hazards and OB: drop a bal
                                                                                          l with a
                                                          1 stoke penalty and make Da
                                                                                       ly or Rico.
A Polie is earned if a player holes his first
stroke with a putter, whether from on or off
the putting surface. The distance of the putt   A Rico is earned by a player for each shot
must be longer than the flagstick.              played that incurs a penalty stroke for
Player must make a net par or better.           being in a lateral hazard.

                    1 POINT                                          1 POINT
ROCKIE                                           SANDIE

                    !
             DOINK

A player earns a Rockie if the player’s ball    A Sandie is earned by a player for each
strikes a rock of at least baseball size. The   stroke played from within a sand-filled
cart path and roads shall not be considered     bunker.
a “rock”.                                       Multiple Sandies are possible on a single
Only one Rockie may be scored per stroke,       hole counting toward multiple Trash bonus
although multiple Rockies may be earned         points, but remember, no Trash is earned
per hole.                                       unless player makes net par or better.

                2 POINT                                        1 POINT
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    SEVE                                          SKANDIE
 Honoring Severiano                              A Skippie and Sandie hybrid
 Ballesteros famous
  for saving par out

                                                 “
     of the rough.

                                                 Trashmasters is a
                                                 incredible event
                                                 for a great cause”.
                                                 ~ Michael Douglas
    AS ALWAYS:
 If you  are BIPSIC,
 ple ase move on to
    the next hole!
                                                A player earns a Skandie when a ball skips
                                                through a bunker and lands outside of the
                                                sand trap.
A player earns a Seve if the player strikes     Player must make net par or better.
a shot from The Cunga (non-mowed native         REMEMBER: Skippie is skimming over
grass areas on the golf course).                the water. Sandie is playing your shot
Multiple Seves are possible on a single hole.   from the sand.

                   1 POINT                                             1 POINT
SKIPPIE                                        STIFFIE

     b  NOTE: You cannot have Drinki
            Skippie on the sam e sho
                                      e and
                                     t.
                                              “
                                              The Trashmasters
                                              is a golfer’s ball!
                                              ~ Woody Paige
                                                  ESPN

                                              A player earns a Stiffie by striking a shot
A player scores a Skippie by “skipping”       that travels more than 100 yards, and settles
the ball through a water hazard.              within the length of a conventional length
                                              putter, and is holed out on the next stroke.
Multiple Skippies may be scored on
a single hole, but only one Skippie per       Super Stiffie: Same rules as a Stiffie but
stroke. The stroke following the Skippie      any part of the ball “inside the leather”.
may be played from within the hazard.
                                                         Stiffie: 3 POINTS
                3 POINTS                              Super Stiffie: 5 POINTS
WATSON                                                WILLIE

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 Honoring Tom Watson,                           A Trash category established in
 famous for chipping in                         1996 to honor music legend and
 at Pebble Beach to win                          golf aficionado Willie Nelson.
      the US Open.                                    “On the Road Again”

   Sooner or later
 everybody’s BIPSIC!                            “
                                                People are still talking about
                                                Tom Wenzel’s colossal Trash
                                                at The Snowmass Club:
                                                Skippie, Rockie, Barkie,
                                                Willie, Jerrie, Drinkie,
                                                Sandie, Watson, Birdie.
                                                ~John Barton
A Watson is earned by a player by holing-         Golf Digest
out from off of the putting surface using
any lofted club. If you use a putter you have
made a Polie, not a Watson!                     A Willie is earned when a player hits the
                                                cart path or a road with their ball.
Super Watson: Scored if holing-out from
100 yards or more.                              (The tell tale scuff mark on the ball will
                                                eliminate any scoring doubts.)
        Watson: 3 POINTS
     Super Watson: 5 POINTS                                         2 POINTS
ABOUT THE TRASHMASTERS                                                         Boone at the
                                                                               official “swearing
Long before the Trashmasters was an official                                   in” of players.

nonprofit Colorado charity, it was a made                                      “Do you solemnly
                                                                               swear to play
up game intended to enjoy and reward                                           the Trash, the
the frequent and inevitable bad shots that                                     whole Trash and
occur during a round of golf. During the                                       nothing but the
                                                                               Trash, so help you
late 1980’s, Trashmasters founder Boone                                        GOLF??!!”
Schweitzer, was out for a round of golf with
friends, Douglas Pruessing and Hollywood       Players earned those points by recovering
star Robert Wagner. After Boone’s miss         from the bad shots to make a net par. It was
hit tee shot bounced off a tree, the first     clear that this unique format for scoring golf
Trashmasters event was born as Robert          could really be something special.
Wagner announced, “Barkie, you’re working      When the Trashmasters decided to copyright
on a Barkie.”                                  and trademark its well known name and logo,
Thereafter, a group of Snowmass locals         Augusta, Georgia and The Masters filed a
played the game every week and continued to    lawsuit against the small Colorado nonprofit.
add new, exciting Trashmasters Events to the   They declared that the Trashmasters had
scoring format. Each Event awarded points      infringed on their good name by placing
for the strange and bizarre shots that occur   the word “Trash” in front of “Masters” and
during a round of golf.                        were offended by the unique scoring format
of the “goofy event”. With the help of Doug    Since the event’s humble beginnings,
Pruessing, the lawsuit settled outside of      The Trashmasters has been covered by
court and the Trashmasters was able to keep    Golfweek, ESPN, Golf Magazine, The Denver
its name as long as it was used only for a     Post, Travel and Leisure Magazine, Sports
charitable cause.                              Illustrated, CBS and a number of well-known
                                               local papers and TV stations.

In 1993, the Inaugural Trashmasters hosted
just 24 golfers and awarded one $500
scholarship. Today, the Trashmasters plays
host to players from around the country, and
awards more than $75,000 a year in college
scholarship funding.                                Winners flaunting their coveted Gold Jackets
The Board of Directors is dedicated to
continuing Boone’s legacy of providing local
college-bound Roaring Fork Vally kids with
the opportunity to realize their educational
dreams. The goal is to grant a minimum
of 2 scholarships every spring. Because
volunteers, sponsors and donors have been
so generous, over the years Trashmasters has
been able to grant more than 80 scholarships
to local kids.
                                                          Trashmasters scholars at the event

                                                We are grateful for your continued support.
                                                Trashmasters Board of Directors
                                                Jeff Sivess - Chairman of the Board
                                                Shawn Thomson - RMC, Your Destination Connection
                                                Mark Stout - Crestwood Condominiums
                                                Teddy Farrell - Sunrise Company
                                                Carol Dresser - Alpine Bank
                                                Matt Tate - Coldwell Banker Mason Morse
       Dedicated volunteers at the tournament   Cameron Wenzel - Snowmass Sports
Thank you...
  Over the years, there have been many, many
  loyal people, who continue to donated their
  time, energy and money to our fundraisers.
 We appreciate the generosity and dedication of
 our sponsors, donors, players and volunteers.
             You have made a difference.

                       Trashmasters
                         Scholarships

              © Trashmasters International, Inc.
    The #1 Homegrown Charity in the Roaring Fork Valley
          PO Box 5668 Snowmass Village CO 81615
            970.925.0800 www.trashmasters.com
Trashmasters International, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) Nonprofit Colorado
    Corporation that benefits Trashmasters’ Scholarship Fund
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