The Battery Golf Trolley
July 27th, 2010A battery golf trolley is a wonderful thing. It’s a personal caddy that never gets tired, never complains and can always be relied on – as long as you keep the battery well charged. Its only downside is that it isn’t very good at selecting the club you want to use, though that may well come in time with future advances in robotic development. Who knows…
Anyone who has trudged along the fairway pulling a heavy bag of golf clubs, or even pushing or pulling a non-powered golf trolley, will appreciate the advantage of having a battery golf trolley. The simple act of clicking a button to start the trolley moving silently, to keep pace with you with no further effort on your part is sheer bliss. It’s sophisticated, easy and it looks pretty cool too.
The battery golf trolley is powered by a battery of course. The battery has to be kept fully charged, and this can be achieved through plugging it into a house mains socket. Batteries come in different capacities in many cases. The common ones will cover a full 18 holes on average, or you can get double strength batteries that will cover 36 holes. Being a battery, this is not an exact science, but they have been designed to have the necessary staying power for the average golf course at least.
A battery golf trolley is a fairly large device. It has to be to carry a large bag of clubs around. However, this same large object needs to fit comfortably into the boot of an average sized car, so most golf trolleys are collapsible too. The battery usually has to be removed in order to collapse the trolley, then it can usually fold away into an object small enough to fit comfortably into any car boot.
Because no two people walk at exactly the same speed, and because people sometimes want to walk fast and sometimes slow, the better model of battery golf trolley will have a variable speed control. This is usually a rotary wheel control that lets you match the speed of the trolley to your walking speed, rather than the other way around. They can usually go quite fast too, so if you would prefer to job around the course between shots, you probably can.
Some people still prefer to have a human golf caddy, for a person can hand you the club you call for. But the sophistication of clicking a switch and matching the trolley speed to your walking gait definitely has a lot going for it too.
This article was produced by Chrissie Mason on behalf of GoKart electric golf trolley. GoKart have been making and selling golf carts for over 25 years. They’re long term golf nuts who look at a lovely piece of scenery and mentally turn it into par 3’s and tricky doglegs, who have turned their hand to making carts designed with the player in mind.