We Started This By Accident.

Hey there, I’m Chase, the founder of Trash Golf.

I’ve spent the better part of a decade in golf. Playing it, working it, living at the course. These days I’m the golf professional at a muni just outside New York City. I open the shop while it’s still dark, I know every regular by name, and I watch the same sun come up over the first tee most mornings.

In late 2023 I took part of my yearly savings and bought 200 hats. That was the whole plan. Zero experience and no clue what I was doing. I sold some out of my trunk, gave some away to the lot lizards at my course, and then my phone started buzzing with people asking where to get one.

And along came Corey. Corey and I played college baseball together becoming close teammates and then became great golfing buddies after school. Having been in the sneaker/street wear industry for long he saw the vibe and fell in love with the hats then jumped in to grow the community with me.

This brand IS municipal golf. This brand IS private golf. It’s the 6 a.m. tee sheet. It’s the range picker with the cracked windshield. It’s the grounds crew rolling greens before sunrise. It’s the retired starter who tells you you’re late even though you’re early. Golf runs on people who work hard, and every drop we make is built on one of those jobs.

That’s the raccoon. The trash panda is our intern, our co-worker, our boss, our golfing buddy, our mascot. He represents the hardest worker on the property. There before your tee time, still there after you quit on the back nine. Every drop he clocks into a new job. A new opportunity in golf. Picking the range. Fixing divots. Checking in the morning foursome. Collect his whole career as it progresses, once he completes one job he might never work it again.

We’re building a crew of trash golfers. People who love this game and refuse to take it too seriously. If you know a muni at dawn, you’re already one of us.