Handicapped: A Documentary About Bad Golf

On the outskirts of Chicago there's a man who wants so desperately to compete in a high stakes golf event that he's created and bankrolled his own tournament. His name is Albert J. Doermaet, and he's the founder and owner of a $400 million dollar midwestern waste management business. He's also the founder of Al's Average Man Invitational, an annual golf tournament staged at Royal Melbourne Country Club in Long Grove, IL. The only rule for Al's tournament is that anyone who competes must be worse at golf than he is. That means Al's Average Man Invitational is the only golf tournament in the United States created explicitly for bad golfers and it's certainly the only bad golf tournament in the world where the winner takes home a cash prize of $250,000.

In 2006, G.R. Kearney teamed up with GO TV, an experienced producer of golf films, to tell this incredible story of the lengths one not particularly bright man will go to fulfill his dream. A highlight of the project involved John Barmon's application and acceptance into the tournament. Barmon played Spalding Smails in the 1982 hit film Caddyshack. The film has appeared in numerous festivals and won Best Feature at the Naperville Independent Film Festival and Best Comedic Documentary at the All Sports Film Festival in Los Angeles, CA.

Visit the official movie site at www.badgolfmovie.com.

Reviews & Accolades for Handicapped

"This documentary on Bad Golf would give Leonard Pinth-Garnell a myoclonic seizure. I loved every bit of the nonsense!”
    - Gary McCord, CBS Sports Golf Analyst

“Caddyshack is about to be eclipsed by a brand new golf movie called Handicapped.”
    - Steve Cochran, WGN Radio 720 AM

“A very funny documentary about bad golf… you’re really gonna love it.”
    - Brian Paruch, host of Chicagoland Golf Show on WSCR AM

"An entertaining film about golf carnage"
    - Ed Sherman, Crain's Chicago Business

“Handicapped was a great asset at our festival.  It played to a nearly packed house and its clever storyline was a hit with the many golfers who attended the screening, both the good ones and the bad."
    - Pat Battistini, director of the All Sports Los Angeles Film Festival

Visit the official movie site at www.badgolfmovie.com.