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Emile Bonfiglio

Golf Cart of Tomorrow - Oh my Hell!
« on: March 29, 2013, 12:15:18 PM »
What can only be described as a motorized skateboard that holds your clubs are you shred the links. I can't even imagine if this gain any traction and actually starts appearing on courses. Can you imagine the damage it would do?

Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYQusrOG48E&feature=player_embedded

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Stephen Davis

Re: Golf Cart of Tomorrow - Oh my Hell!
« Reply #1 on: March 29, 2013, 12:21:01 PM »
It would be fantastic to watch someone riding one of these things and get dumped out going up a hill or something. I would honestly rather see people riding the usual golf carts than one of these things.

Garland Bayley

Re: Golf Cart of Tomorrow - Oh my Hell!
« Reply #2 on: March 29, 2013, 01:06:08 PM »
I have to imagine the lazy so and so's in the video play basketball in motorized wheeled vehicles of some sort too.
"I enjoy a course where the challenges are contained WITHIN it, and recovery is part of the game  not a course where the challenge is to stay ON it." Jeff Warne

Jaeger Kovich

Re: Golf Cart of Tomorrow - Oh my Hell!
« Reply #3 on: March 29, 2013, 01:28:18 PM »
Looks like a pretty interesting way to experience contours... Might be fun on a links like Royal Cinque Ports in Deal, heck they already have a halfpipe and punchbowl greens!

Howard Riefs

Re: Golf Cart of Tomorrow - Oh my Hell!
« Reply #4 on: March 29, 2013, 01:29:29 PM »
It could be worse. Spotted at Brooksville CC in Florida...


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Pete_Pittock

Re: Golf Cart of Tomorrow - Oh my Hell!
« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2013, 01:30:59 PM »
Down in Tasmania a decade or so ago they were whizzing around on three wheelers which were modified to hold a golf bag in back.

RJ_Daley

Re: Golf Cart of Tomorrow - Oh my Hell!
« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2013, 04:30:13 PM »
 ::)  looks like the logical next step evolved from the Segway...

If you are able bodied and use one of these, or even a cart, I actually don't see why you don't just stand in place at the range and hit balls and various clubs at targets all day.  If you don't enjoy the walk in the park, haven't you eliminated half the joy of the game? 
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Mike_Clayton

Re: Golf Cart of Tomorrow - Oh my Hell!
« Reply #7 on: March 30, 2013, 02:32:41 AM »
Sadly an Australian company -  one hopefully drowned at birth.

Matthew Rose

Re: Golf Cart of Tomorrow - Oh my Hell!
« Reply #8 on: March 30, 2013, 02:37:44 AM »
I guess I don't understand why you would stand if you could sit.

It's the same with the mowers they have now, where you stand on the back. Reminds me of a kid hanging off the back of a shopping cart.

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Chris DeNigris

Re: Golf Cart of Tomorrow - Oh my Hell!
« Reply #9 on: March 30, 2013, 07:34:28 AM »
::)  looks like the logical next step evolved from the Segway...

If you are able bodied and use one of these, or even a cart, I actually don't see why you don't just stand in place at the range and hit balls and various clubs at targets all day.  If you don't enjoy the walk in the park, haven't you eliminated half the joy of the game? 

This is the most anoying and offensive comment that's sometimes directed at golfers that choose to take a cart-whether all the time or just some of the time. Some (very likely a lot) of golfers walk some of the time and ride some of the time. I do, and I love playing golf either way, just differently. For someone to assert that I'm not playing golf if I choose not to walk a particular day and that I should just stay at the range with a Jumbo bucket- well that's the height of arrogance and pomposity. Don't assume that everyone is cut from the same cloth and it's sad that you can be so presumptuous (and maybe self righteous) to tell me how to enjoy the game.

Sorry, end of rant...this stay at the range comment just rankles me.

Steve Lang

Re: Golf Cart of Tomorrow - Oh my Hell!
« Reply #10 on: March 30, 2013, 09:10:38 AM »
 8)  For those of you that don't really know Chris, here's a shot of him arriving at the Mines a couple years ago after driving 15 hours overnight from DC



I don't think those carts would hurt the cartpath, if they could be kept there..  so i guess every course has to tear up / remove their cartpaths :D

i suspect that pimped out blue/purple cart with the callaway clubs tossed in the back is just "inside the gates" transportation.. wonder what their real golf cart looks like??
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Chris DeNigris

Re: Golf Cart of Tomorrow - Oh my Hell!
« Reply #11 on: March 30, 2013, 10:32:04 AM »
Steve,

That was a tough road trip. I would have made better time but my robe kept getting snagged in the left wheel.

IIRC, you were a bit peeved that Miss Sheila wanted to ride with me instead of you on our 2nd 18  :)

Hope you guys are doin well...

RJ_Daley

Re: Golf Cart of Tomorrow - Oh my Hell!
« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2013, 07:19:12 PM »
Chris, oofda!  ;D

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Perhaps if you read those qualifiers in context, my post wouldn't or shouldn't be THAT offensive.  These are not accusatory as your reply makes my observations out to be, IMO.  I am not so dogmatic on the carts and walking issue as Melvyn, but I sort of understand his POV in a very traditionalist sense of approach to the game. 

If one has a device as the modified Segway sort of gizmo in the video, it suggests to me a choice and commitment to play the game in a certain way that suggests one might forgo walking most always.  I doubt I'd pay that much for a gizmo like that and then elect to walk very often.  Which, IMHO takes a great element of enjoyment and tradition out of the game.  I myself have, would, and need a cart on many courses I've played.  My body is really going down hill and I suspect it isn't long that I'll need a cart more often, even on courses I always have walked with ease. I have complete sympathy for those that take a cart because they need one to continue to enjoy the game on their own terms.  I hope you don't feel anyone is dictating to you how you enjoy the game.  I just gave my observations that I don't quite get it that a young and able-bodied individual would choose not to undertake what the USGA and official golfdom 'suggest' is at the least - an element of competition to require walking.  When I can't hike it anymore, I'll cross that bridge when I get to it, and if I decide the game has lost its joy with inability to walk, I'll pull the pin and commit golf hari-kari via quitting.  That is just me, I don't suggest it nor prescribe it for you. 
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