Carry your own bag, or walk unencumbered?

[John Kavanaugh]

I'm very proud of Victoria National for allowing me to use an electric remote control push cart this winter....and now deciding to allow them full time. Vic now lets you decide between carry, cart, caddy, push standard or push electric, anytime, any day.

[Jason Thurman]

Shouldn't there a robot caddie by now that I can buy? I'm about to buy a robot litterbox for a three-legged cat with 22 toes. We clearly live in the future. So why can't I buy a robot caddie?


Which electric pushcart is the closest thing to a robot caddie? I'm officially intrigued, or will be when I'm allowed to start spending money in 2018 once @wifediesel finishes buying backsplashes.

[John Kavanaugh]

I was able to purchase a Motocaddy S7 on Amazon using credit card points. I consider it a robot caddie that always gives me perfect distances, holds my cigar as I swing and stays a good 30 yds in front of me until he waits for me at my ball. I much prefer him to a human caddie but will get back in the cart this summer for the majority of my buddy play.

[Mike Hendren]

There is no joy in carrying anything a great distance. 
There is great joy in walking a golf course. 

I was once a purist and a Democrat.
Nobody likes a chump, so I outgrew both.

Mike

[Jason Thurman]

Mike, there truly is no joy like walking a golf course completely unencumbered with a caddie carrying the bag. There's no joy for me in shelling out caddie fees (unless it's an Evans Scholar, in which case there's some real joy), but if I could make one robocaddie purchase, the feeling of walking off the first tee box with absolutely nothing on my shoulders except the dread of my impending lost ball search is an investment that might just be worthwhile.


John, the S7 looks like a contender. Expensive as hell, but it's hard to put a price on the benefits of a mute caddie.

[BCowan]

Jason,

    This is funny, you said Trolley's looked tacky not too long ago. 

[George Pazin]

Always happy and sad to see old threads - happy to see what I said before still applies, sad to see people who posted before not posting anymore.


I basically do whatever my playing partners do. My preference is always to walk and carry, but my overly compliant personality means I bend to the norms of my partners.

There is no joy in carrying anything a great distance.

Bogey obviously has never seen the world's strongest man contest!

[Ira Fishman]

There is no joy in carrying anything a great distance. 
There is great joy in walking a golf course. 

I was once a purist and a Democrat.
Nobody likes a chump, so I outgrew both.

Mike

I embrace my chumpdom on both counts.

[Garland Bayley]

Prefer walk and carry 10 out of 10 to putting bag on cart.

And, Bogie, you were much more fun as a purist Democrat.

[Tim Martin]

I'm very proud of Victoria National for allowing me to use an electric remote control push cart this winter....and now deciding to allow them full time. Vic now lets you decide between carry, cart, caddy, push standard or push electric, anytime, any day.

JKav-As strong and fitness minded as you are I can't imagine you can get that in and out of your car by yourself. Does the guy at the bag drop get a little something extra for that type of service?

[Jason Thurman]

Jason,

    This is funny, you said Trolley's looked tacky not too long ago.

Not with that punctuation I didn't.


Push carts are not visually attractive, and that includes the electric ones. But most caddies aren't either. I wouldn't pay for a caddie if I had to push him around the course myself. But if I found one that was remote controlled and mute, he might just be useful enough for me to justify.

[BHoover]

I think the key to growing the game is the human-powered rickshaw. If I'm paying for a caddie, the least he can do is also convey me around the course. Am I right?

[Michael Wharton-Palmer]

Pat Craig -

On any given day, my guess is 50% or more of the golfers playing in Great Britain & Ireland use pull carts (trolleys).  The vast majority of the courses I have seen there suffer no apparent ill effects from that. My guess is the situation is very much the same in Australia and New Zealand.

I find it ludicrous that certain clubs/courses in the U.S. do not allow pull-carts.

DT

I agree, plus a study carried out by some of the colleges here in the US show that pull or push or trolleys are about a stroke a round better for the player than carrying🤔
I love to walk but I have found that using a trolley is certainly less harmful to my knee if I am p,saying 36 in a day

[Michael Wharton-Palmer]

I'm very proud of Victoria National for allowing me to use an electric remote control push cart this winter....and now deciding to allow them full time. Vic now lets you decide between carry, cart, caddy, push standard or push electric, anytime, any day.

That is the way it should be....give we the players our choice...wow...It feels good to agree on a post with you sir😉

[Mike Sweeney]

Snowshoes and shovels needed in the walking bag this week.


Yikes, everything was set for an early opening and then:

[Joe Bausch]

It's my fault, Mike S:  on Friday I moved my windshield wipers out of the winter position. 

I should have known that would jinx us!

[BCrosby]

"... a study carried out by some of the colleges here in the US show that pull or push or trolleys are about a stroke a round better for the player than carrying."

I've wondered if trolleys made a difference in playing performance.

One stroke is huge.

Bob

[JJShanley]

I prefer to carry, but would consider an powered trolley if I live in the U.S. longterm.  The summer heat does me in over here. 

[Jeff Shelman]

Some of this depends on who is in the carts.

If they are good friends who I don't see enough of, I'll ride. If they are just random guys I was paired with, I'd probably walk and carry.

I like to walk, but I also want to spend time with friends. If that means riding, I will do that.

[Jay Mickle]

At a bit over $3000 this is a great deal, remote control, 13lbs, folds up to about the size of a golf bag.
http://www.motogolf.com/products/JuCad-Carbon-Travel-(Carbon-Fiber).html

[Sean_A]

Golf always finds a way to overkill products..especially the price 

http://www.motogolf.com/products/JuCad-Carbon-Travel-(Carbon-Fiber).html

Ciao

[BCowan]

Cart tek has a great one for $1300. 

http://www.carttek.com/gri-1500li/

[jeffwarne]

"... a study carried out by some of the colleges here in the US show that pull or push or trolleys are about a stroke a round better for the player than carrying."

I've wondered if trolleys made a difference in playing performance.

One stroke is huge.

Bob

Nope.Just tells you who has more self confidence.