Turn a good walk into a great walk with this list of best push carts in 2023.
Despite the calendar flipping to September, the high temperatures are still hanging around which means there’s a lot more golf to be played this season.
If you’re a dedicated walker while you play 9 or 18 holes, you’re in luck. We’ve put together a list of some of our favorite push carts from brands like Bag Boy, Clicgear, Cart Tek and more.
Upgrading your push cart will make your rounds more enjoyable and may help to reduce stress on the body.
Get your all the golf gear your future champion needs.
Getting your junior the right set of clubs is important, but making sure their bag has everything in it that they’ll need is just as crucial.
So, we thought it’d be a good idea to put together a list of items every junior golfer needs. Shoes, golf balls, rangefinders, push carts and more are all featured in this post from brands like Nike, adidas, Callaway, Titleist and more.
Save on some of the best golf equipment, apparel, shoes, bags and more.
Golf gear can be expensive. That’s why here at Golfweek compiled a list of some of the best golf products currently on sale to help your dollar stretch a little further.
From polos and shorts to shoes and equipment, this list covers all of your golf apparel and equipment needs.
And hey, with all that money you save, maybe you can schedule a lesson or two with your local teaching pro to shave a few strokes off your handicap.
No one prefers to play in bad weather, but most of us are crazy enough to tee it up when it’s extremely hot, windy, and even raining.
If you’re looking to play more golf this year and don’t want the weather to keep you from reaching your goals, you’ve come to the right place. Earlier this week, we featured our favorite rain apparel. Now, we’re moving on to the other side of rain gear, the accessories.
Are you a part of the pushcart mafia? We got you covered. Are you a player that’s ride or die? We have you covered too. No, literally, we have a cart cover on this list.
These accessories are meant to help you play your best golf, even in not the best weather. Is there anything more satisfying than grinding out a low score in adverse conditions?
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Find the perfect Valentine’s Day gift for that special somebody in your life whose idea of a romantic day is playing 36.
Surprise! Valentine’s Day is almost here.
If you’re tired of giving flowers and chocolates, make sure your golfing partner is gifted something he’ll love and actually use.
From high-tech watches to polos to golf balls and more, we have everything covered so you can get your favorite golfer exactly what he wants or needs to make this Valentine’s Day one he’ll remember.
If your man is stocked up on all the latest gear and apparel, surprise him with one of the newest drivers or iron sets that are David Dusek-approved.
Check out Golfweek’s favorite push carts for the 2022 season including Sun Mountain, MotoCaddy and Bag Boy.
Push carts are more popular now than ever and really hit their stride during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. People wanted to get out of the house and get some exercise, and push carts became the sensation we always knew they could be.
There are many different types of push carts, all of which are a fantastic alternative to throwing your bag on the back of a golf cart.
Using a push cart can be just as fast as riding in a golf cart and even more enjoyable. Hacking your way to the mid-90’s isn’t so bad when you’re walking with fresh air and sunshine shining down upon you!
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The Any Given Tuesday podcast got deep in women’s college golf in this week’s episode with Baylor head coach Jay Goble and Julie Williams.
Baylor’s women have authored one of the most intriguing storylines in what has been a wacky college golf season to this point. The fall season was hit and miss, with more teams not playing than playing.
As things have gotten back to normal these past few months and more teams have gotten on the road – whether that means the usual flights or strictly the Sprinter van – one consistent storyline remained: Baylor’s women kept winning.
After three fall victories, the Bears added two more in February. Most recently, the Icon Invitational title came after Baylor was snowed in for a week in Waco, Texas, thanks to a freak winter storm.
Any Given Tuesday podcast hosts Jason Payne, head men’s golf coach at Charleston Southern, and Brady Gregor, head men’s golf coach at High Point, got deep in women’s golf on this week’s episode with Baylor head coach Jay Goble and Julie Williams. Topics include teams and players to watch, push carts and NCAA match play.
Instead of a pro-am pairing party, the Sanderson Farms Championship had a COVID-19 test party.
JACKSON, Miss. – Instead of a pro-am pairing party, the Sanderson Farms Championship had a COVID-19 test party.
“We gave everybody an hour window where they could come and be tested, 15-minute results and 100 percent negatives and everybody’s here,” said Steve Jent, tournament director. “We’re just trying to turn lemons into lemonade.”
The PGA Tour resumed pro-ams last week at the Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship in the Dominican Republic, following in the footsteps of PGA Tour Champions and Korn Ferry Tour, which first did so at the Ally Challenge and Price Cutter Charity Championship, respectively, in July.
Gone is hobnobbing amongst pros the night before at the draw party, the chummy team photo and the fist bump celebration for a birdie putt.
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“It was totally different,” said Sebastian Muñoz, the defending champion of the Sanderson Farms Championship, who played with the chancellor of Ole Miss. “They’re having to take their bags and not have any caddies around, so my caddie had to rake all the bunkers, so he was not loving it. But it was good, nine holes actually played pretty fast. It was like under two and a half hours, which for a pro-am is really good, and just different but good in a sense.”
The biggest change of all may have been amateurs using push carts. In an effort to limit the number of people on site, caddies for the participants were eliminated this year.
“We’ve always done a walking pro-am and cart-path only is no fun, so, how do we do it without caddies? I thought, why not push carts,” Jent said. “I ordered 250 (from Bag Boy). You can’t find these things. They are not to be found. The local Edwin Watts has asked me if they can buy some.”
No caddies for pro-am participants at Sanderson Farms but everyone gets their own push cart to take home. That’s sweet pro-am swag. Sign me up. #PushcartMafiapic.twitter.com/RUKEYOgbpZ
PGA Tour rules allow a maximum of 28 teams during a Monday pro-am and 52 teams on Wednesday. The pro-am was sold out before the COVID-19 shutdown. Jent said courses in Mississippi remained open, and he worked with Dr. Thomas Dobbs, the state’s chief medical officer, to develop a plan, which was submitted to the Tour and received approval from the players.
Tour veteran Peter Jacobsen long has contended that Wednesday is the most important day of the week on Tour because of the money generated for local charities. Jent said the Sanderson Farms Championship raised $1.6 million for charity in 2016, with $1.3 million earmarked for Batson Children’s Hospital near downtown, and 30-to-40 other non-profits such as First Tee and Make-A-Wish Foundation splitting the other $300,000. The loss of revenue due to no spectators or corporate hospitality is significant.
“Maybe we’ll get close to halfway there,” Jent said, referencing last year’s $1.6 million as a benchmark. “Without the pro-am, we’d have been close to break-even so having it is a big impact.”
A cool story is emerging at PGA Tour tournaments across the country as corporate partners have continued to make charitable giving a priority even if they aren’t able to enjoy wining and dining clients in their corporate chalets.
“A lot of sponsors for the pro-am couldn’t come because of corporate travel restrictions. Several that didn’t participate donated some or all of their fee to support the local hospital,” Jent said.
Nathan Grube, tournament director of the Travelers Championship, echoed that sentiment: “We had sponsor after sponsor say we understand what the tournament is about. Take our entire sponsorship fee and use it for charity.”
Jent said some of his corporate guests were renting out space at restaurants to do team dinners in smaller groups or grabbing take out and going back to their hotels. “We told them you need to semi-self-quarantine before you come here,” he said.
On Monday, 60 golfers participated in a pro-am at the Country Club of Jackson and 105 amateurs did so on Wednesday. As for the push carts, they were a big hit. Pro Bo Van Pelt joined his amateurs and used one on Monday. The amateur gift package included a Callaway gift card, but participants were given an option of keeping their cart in exchange for a reduced amount on their gift card – the tournament also offered to ship the cart to them.
“I think the push cart could be the future of the pro-am,” Jent said. “I think we showed we can safely do a pro-am and still give them a chance to participate. My message to my fellow tournament directors is you can do this. It’s just a little extra effort but you can do this.”
A push cart can save energy and promote better play versus a carry bag, and their popularity has surged in recent years.
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Shauna Taylor remembers trying to convince Stacy Lewis to use a push cart 15 years ago after Lewis had a metal rod and five long screws implanted in her back. Lewis said something to the effect of no way, that’s not cool.
Last month Lewis sent the Arkansas coach a picture of the push cart she used at the Texas Women’s Open, just like old times. In college, Lewis was one of the few women in the country using a push cart, and she had the excuse of a massive surgery to correct scoliosis to silence any critics. Now the Razorback team has nine push carts in storage. A member of the men’s team reached out over the summer to ask Taylor if he could borrow one.
“It’s like part of our pregame now,” Taylor said of the 30 minutes it usually takes to get the team’s carts in order at a tournament.
Today’s push carts are smaller, lighter and easier to pack, and they come with seats, coolers and a spot for an umbrella. They are a enormous advantage in the rain. And in recent years the stigma of using a push cart is beginning to wash away, too.
Push carts are no longer reserved for retired folk. Or the injured. Perfectly healthy twentysomething males are using them in record numbers. Kids, too.
North Carolina men’s coach Andrew DiBitetto said a turning point in his thoughts on the subject came last year when the team’s strength and conditioning coach, Erik Hernandez, traveled with them to a tournament in San Diego. After a 36-hole day, Hernandez asked why most of the Tar Heels carried their golf bags.
“He said, ‘I think you’re crazy if you’re a golfer who carries your golf bag,’ ” said DiBitetto. “I was so shocked and so stunned I said, what do you mean? He took me through the biomechanics of it. He talked about fatigue and decompression, dehydration. Basically, once you put weight on your neck and shoulders, it impacts the rest of your body. Even the simple motion of turning your neck and head to have a conversation while having 20 pounds on your back impacts your body.”
Cindy Kou is among a growing trend of juniors using push carts at AJGA events. (Courtesy of the AJGA)
Three years ago everyone on the UNC men’s team was a bag carrier. Now it’s split 50-50. Sometimes the team even has a competition within a competition at tournaments – carriers vs. pushers.
Baylor coach Mike McGraw said the push cart stigma still exists on some level. Some guys are still going to razz their teammates about pushing. But for McGraw, the tough-guy barrier is gone. Push carts are simply part of the game now.
He likened it to when Oklahoma State became the first program to put a kickstand on a carry bag 30 years ago. Everyone looked on in shock. By the next fall, practically every team in the country had stand bags.
In 2007, AJGA chief operating officer Mark Oskarson and executive director Stephen Hamblin observed at the Junior Solheim Cup that every member of the European squad used a trolley while every American carried. The pair went home and researched the damage caused by overloaded backpacks on schoolkids.
The junior circuit was among the first groups to allow push carts from a health perspective in 2008 on a test basis for their youngest members, Junior All-Stars aged 12-15. The next year it was extended to all members.
In 2009 only 16 percent of AJGA players used a push cart. About five years ago, those numbers started to dramatically change. In 2014, Stanford’s Cameron Wilson won the NCAA Championship (on television) while using a push cart – as did the majority of his teammates.
McGraw, like many, thought that visual was a turning point, though many on social media took the pushers to task.
In 2019, 67 percent of all AJGA players used a push cart in competition (94 percent girls/52 percent boys). At the Junior All-Star level, 97 percent of girls used a push cart, and 70 percent of boys used one.
“I think every kid under age 18 ought to be pushing a cart to save their back,” said Dr. Neil Wolkodoff, medical program director at the Colorado Center for Health and Sport Science.
It’s especially important for younger players, he said, given how much a golf bag weighs compared to their relative weight.
In 2010, Wolkodoff enlisted several volunteers to help conduct a study to look at the physical impact of playing golf three different ways: riding in a motorized cart, pushing a cart and carrying a bag. The subjects burned 450 calories per nine holes while riding in a cart. They burned more calories whether pushing or carrying the bag – about 750 per nine. And they shot lower scores with a push cart.
“One of the reasons I felt that people played better with the push cart was they burned the same number of calories as they did carrying the bag but 1) their heart didn’t go up into the anaerobic zone going up those hills and 2) there was a lot less stress on their shoulder and their core, so when they had to swing they were just a little bit more efficient.”
