Hunting for the best Golfing Travel Case
March 14th, 2010 |So you are making preparations to holiday and spend a while with your in-laws and you know what a massive golfer your father-in-law is and need to be sure you bring your best game to the course when he casually decides you must go golf.
This means you probably want to have your own clubs with you when you take him on. In order to do this though, you have to pack your clubs and equipment into the cargo hold and hope everything comes out the same as it went in. Well, with the new advancements in clubs also come new advancements in the golf travel case.
The Options
A golf travel case will help you make sure your investment in top of the line equipment stays as pristine as the day you bought it. Before you go rushing out to the store to buy one though, you want to make sure you have all the facts about them.
There are 3 classes golfing travel cases can be separated into, the hard, soft and cross-breed designs. Before you assert to oneself, I need the one that will supply the best protection so I should just get the hard case, you could need to compare the differences first. All three kinds of bags have advantages and downsides to them, but they’re all designed specifically to be travel cases.
Hard Case
The most common material the hard golf travel case is made of is high density polyethylene. These bags are rigid and usually close with locking clasps over a rubber seal to prevent dirt and moisture form getting to the clubs. The hard golf travel case can be built in different shapes and sizes, to fit your specific length of club and type of bag.
The features to look for in the hard case are through-and-through color (so scratches do not show), maneuverability (such as wheels and handles), and even collapsibility. That’s right collapsibility; “Golf Telebag” has come out with a telescoping rigid case that will collapse to 24″ for storage.
So if space is a big concern for you, but you want the rigid design, this might be an option worth checking out. This particular bag will run you about $120, and the standard hard cases will run anywhere from $50 -$500. One major drawback to the hard golf travel case though is the unavailability of exterior storage compartments as you will find on soft cases.
Soft Case
Soft golfing travel cases on the other hand are often supplied with not only exterior pockets, but additional handles and padding. The common design of soft cases is composed of a nylon design with support straps and padding to go with the benefit of additional space they supply when empty. Club Glove boasts the employment of its Last Bag by more touring execs than any other product in golfing.
If you’re looking to be on par with the champs, this $250-$300 bag might be the one you have been searching for. Still undecided which sort of bag is correct for you, or perhaps both are, if that is the case, the half-breed golfing travel case could be what you’re looking for.
Hybrid Case
The design behind the hybrid is a simple concept, make a hard golf travel case with soft case features. The idea has taken a few different forms, firstly being to have a hard case built into a soft case. Secondly, to have a hard case with attachable soft accessory bags for the outside. The drawback of these designs are that while traveling, the bag takes quite a beating and become quickly worn out, and there are only so many attachment pouches you can add to a hard case.
The solution to these issues has shown up in Load Golfing’s ProSeries nine hundred. Load Golfing has taken the concept of the cross-breed golf travel bag to a higher level with the soft case skin which is removable from the hard case travel section of the bag. This design allows for the damage of travel to be handled by the hard case within, keeping the outer bag with all of the accessories bags clean and working as long as practical, and is cheap at approximately $189.
So there you have it, a fast review of your options for your new golfing travel case, now you can stop sweating about your clubs and start trying to work out the best way to beat your father-in-law and earn the status you merit.
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Joe M. Randolph
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