GOLF’S LITTLE BOOK of TRASH The World’s Most Unique Golf Tournament® Official Rules & Scoring for the Trashmasters 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 • Any two 1-point Trash earns 1 bonus point. 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 • Two 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. 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. ARNIE BARKIE Honoring The King, Honoring Actor Robert Wagner, Arnold Palmer hwho conceived the Barkie in 1986 This is a very special tournament and, It is an honor and a a worthy charity. privilege to support “~ Dan Quayle, this fabulous charity. Former Vice-President “~ Robert Wagner of the United States A! hole in one! A player earns a Barkie if the player’s An Ace! 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 in Aspen. are playing for a Boonie. You must collect at “ 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 DALY DRINKIE Honoring John Daly (for those long and wrong!) SPLASH! ATTENTION: 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 CBS Sports . Sooner or later “ 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. b2 POINTS 3 POINTS EAGLE GENIE Honoring Tiger Woods Honoring Gene Sarazen 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 move 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.b 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 Named after Rico Suave, famous international fashion plate and Trashmasters Extraordinaire AWESOME! ~ David Feherty GOLF Channel OF COURSE: If you are BIPSIC, “ please move on to the next hole! ATTENTION: No looking for lost balls. All hazards and OB: drop a ball with a 1 stoke penalty and make Daly or Rico . bA 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. playedb 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.