The Grumpy Guide to Golf Trolleys

Golf trolleys. They look good in magazines and a salesman will talk until he's blue in the face just how fantastic they are, how you can't enjoy a round of golf without one and that once you've boug...

Golf trolleys. They look good in magazines and a salesman will talk until he's blue in the face just how fantastic they are, how you can't enjoy a round of golf without one and that once you've bought one, you'll be out playing golf at every opportunity because it really takes the strain out of the game. The first couple of excursions with my new golf trolley went OK. It was nice not having to sling my golf bag over my shoulder before making my way down the fairway and it really did make a full 18 holes a lot easier.

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However on my third trip out, the course was a little muddy in places and this mud eventually clogged up the wheels of my golf trolley. After a few holes, none of the wheels were turning and this certainly hindered the efficiency of said golf trolley. This was however easily remedied by pulling all the sticky mud off with my bare hands, which I抎 rather have avoided especially since I found myself unclogging the wheels every fifteen minutes. Eventually I ended up carrying both my bag and the trolley over a patch of ground that looked even a little muddy as the wheels must have been made from some special plastic which attracts mud.

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This outing was the end of the road for me and pull along golf trolleys and I was happy to carry my bag around the course once more. That is until somebody started raving on about electric golf trolleys. I tried to show little interest having had bad experiences with a manual, however when he said how good they are in the wet, saying "it just powers through the mud" my ears pricked up and come Saturday, I抎 bought one.?Come Sunday came its maiden voyage and my first gripe; it's a heck of a lot heavier to get in and out of the car than the manual was!

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That afternoon we had a lot of fun playing golf and playing with my new electric golf trolleys' remote control. I guess it must have travelled twice as far as we抎 walked as I had it doing loop-the-loop, slalom and various other 'routines' and come the 13th hole, it's blummin' battery packed up! A couple of weeks ago I was moaning about pulling a manual trolley. That is nothing compared to pulling an electric golf trolley with no electricity.

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For the first time since I lifted it out of the car I realised just how heavy the motor, the drive mechanism and the battery made it and by the time I抎 played the 18th hole I was exhausted. Obviously I complained back in the golf shop and the very same salesman led me to his vast selection of electric golf trolleys and started harping on about the lightweight golf trolleys with long life lithium batteries. I wanted to throttle him!

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