Albert J. Doermaet, Jr., a former high school teacher and coach who founded his multi-million dollar portable toilet and waste management empire when he bought six portajohns from a traveling salesman in 1976, created the Average Man Invitational in 2004 in an effort to fulfill his lifelong dream of truly competing in a high stakes golf tournament. Doermaet, who is a dreadful golfer, has only one rule for his professionally managed tournament (which has a winner-take-all prize of $250,000): only golfers who are as bad as him or worse are allowed. Handicapped documents the 2006 tournament, which attracted the dregs of the amateur golf community to the lush grounds of Royal Melbourne Country Club in the suburbs north of Chicago.
—G.R. Kearney