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I thought we had a thread on push carts like this in the past but couldn't find it and opinions do change through time anyway so here we go.
Just as the title states. Should they be allowed? And also driven carts as a separate question.
For my view, I don't really buy the "tradition" thing as a stance. If light weight metals and plastics and other materials and engineering were practical and affordable I feel they would have been used by golfers long before they became a norm in more modern times. But I just don't get it anyway. The players caddy carries the clubs anyway so either way the player isn't. So why not allow the caddy to roll a cart? Or even the player him/herself if they chose? Imo it doesn't do anything to the game and doesn't hurt the sport at all. I wouldn't see it as any big deal at all and if it started to become a norm on tour we would very quickly become use to viewing it on TV and in person and would no longer look out of place at all. Most of us are use to seeing them everyday anyway. I just don't see the need for disallowing this nor what it hurts. But hey, that's just me
Now for driven carts I can almost understand the power cart as a no no because one can argue that the player should have to endure the walking fatigue but even then if they all could use them, they would all be in the same circumstances. And some would argue tradition here too. And to be honest that would take a lot of getting use to unlike the pushcart. But all in all Im not really sure where I stand as for power driven carts. Perhaps one step at a time..lol
What say you?
Just as the title states. Should they be allowed? And also driven carts as a separate question.
For my view, I don't really buy the "tradition" thing as a stance. If light weight metals and plastics and other materials and engineering were practical and affordable I feel they would have been used by golfers long before they became a norm in more modern times. But I just don't get it anyway. The players caddy carries the clubs anyway so either way the player isn't. So why not allow the caddy to roll a cart? Or even the player him/herself if they chose? Imo it doesn't do anything to the game and doesn't hurt the sport at all. I wouldn't see it as any big deal at all and if it started to become a norm on tour we would very quickly become use to viewing it on TV and in person and would no longer look out of place at all. Most of us are use to seeing them everyday anyway. I just don't see the need for disallowing this nor what it hurts. But hey, that's just me
Now for driven carts I can almost understand the power cart as a no no because one can argue that the player should have to endure the walking fatigue but even then if they all could use them, they would all be in the same circumstances. And some would argue tradition here too. And to be honest that would take a lot of getting use to unlike the pushcart. But all in all Im not really sure where I stand as for power driven carts. Perhaps one step at a time..lol
What say you?