A golf club travel bag is designed to protect your golf clubs, so that should be your first consideration. You can get a hard or a soft variety, the harder providing a greater degree of protection than the soft type, but also costing a good bit more. The softer bags tend to be lighter and easier to carry around.
Think of the Value of your Golf Clubs
You have to consider the cost of your golf clubs. Not just the cost if fact, but the value of them to you which could be beyond cost. If you are used to playing with a particular set it is sometimes a testing time for your whole golf game if you have to change them because of damage. They may also have some sentimental value, and these are all considerations you must take into account when deciding on how much you want to spend protecting them while traveling.
Another thing to take into account is the amount of travel you carry out. The more you travel the better the travel bag you should have. The type of travel is also a determining factor. Whereas a cheaper soft travel bag might be fine for you if you drive to your local course two or three times a week, you might need a top flight hard travel case if you are traveling on the pro golf circuit, or if you vacation abroad once or twice a year and take your clubs with you.
Some Soft Cases are Good for Air Travel
You can get soft travel bags that are quite good enough for air travel, and there are golfers who prefer this option due to the lightness and ease of moving them around terminals along with the rest of their luggage. Other prefer the extra protection the hard cases provide to customized clubs that could cost many thousands of dollars to replace, even though they are bulkier and not so easy to handle.
The hard travel cases usually strap the golf bag very securely into the case, and are provided with a good set of wheels that can take the weight without sticking. They are also more suitable for using as overnight cases, and you can pack all your clothing and other accoutrements that are required for a couple of days away from home. This can save you carrying an extra suitcase.
You can use many soft golf club cases as regular golf bags, and use them on the course. Many can be fixed to carts or buggies, allowing you to keep your golf bag protected inside them while playing. You can specify this option when you purchase, and you can also have your travel bag customized to your specifications in the same way that you can with a regular golf bag.
All the Big Makers provide Golf Club Travel Bags
All the big makers provide a range of travel bags and cases, and many are made specifically to fit their own golf bags. So if you have a Bag Boy golf bag, for instance, you can get a Bag Boy travel bag made to suit it. Not just for color, but exactly for size for maximum protection. Most manufacturers do this.
Decide what kind of golf travel bag you need to match your specific requirements, and make a decision from that. Don’t go just for the best looking, but get the most functional. That is one that gives you the best degree of protection in the price range you are looking for, and the size and weight that suits you.
Mike Pedersen
http://www.articlesbase.com/golf-articles/what-kind-of-golf-club-travel-bag-do-you-need-108014.html
April 22nd, 2010 at 1:55 am
Southern Astrology Signs (may have posted this, my memory is kind of burned out after the Hippy days)?
Southerners are pretty skeptical of horoscopes and the people that read them.
If we are to ever fully understand all the star signs and the people they represent, we need symbols that all true Southerners
understand: See the list below…
WHAT’S YOUR SOUTHERN SIGN?
OKRA (Dec 22 – Jan 20)
Tough on the outside but tender on the inside.
Okras have tremendous influence.
Older Okras can look back over life and see the seeds of his influence everywhere.
You can do something good each day if you try.
CHITLIN (Jan 21 – Feb 19)
Chitlins come from humble backgrounds.
A Chitlin, however, will make something of himself if he is motivated and has lots of seasoning.
In dealing with Chitlins, be careful, they may surprise you.
They can erupt like Vesuvius.
Chitlins are best with Catfish and Okra.
BOLL WEEVIL (Feb 20 – March 20)
You have an overwhelming curiosity.
You’re unsatisfied with the surface of things, and you feel the need to bore deep into the interior of everything.
Needless to say, you are very intense and driven as if you had some inner hunger.
You love to stay busy and tend to work too much.
No one in their right mind is going to marry you, so don’t worry about it.
MOON PIE (March 21 – April 20)
You’re the type that spends a lot of time on the front porch.
A cinch to recognize the physical appearance of Moon Pies.
Big and round are the key words here.
You should marry anybody who you can get remotely interested in the idea.
It’s not going to be easy.
You always have a big smile and are happy.
This might be the year to think about aerobics.
Maybe not.
POSSUM (April 21 – May 21)
When confronted with life’s difficulties, possums have a marked tendency to withdraw and develop a don’t-bother-me-about-it attitude.
Sometimes you become so withdrawn, people actually think you’re dead.
This strategy is probably not psychologically healthy but seems to work for you.
You are a rare breed.
Most folks love to watch you work and play.
You are a night person and mind your own business.
CRAWFISH (May 22 – June 21)
Crawfish is a water sign.
If you work in an office, you’re hanging around the water cooler.
Crawfish prefer the beach to the mountains, the pool to the golf course, and the bathtub to the living room.
You tend not to be particularly attractive physically, but you have very, very good heads.
COLLARDS (June 22 – July 23)
Collards have a genius for communication.
They love to get in the melting pot of life and share their essence with the essence of those around them.
Collards make good social workers, psychologists, and baseball managers.
As far as your personal life goes, Collards, should stay away from Crawfish.
It just won’t work.
Avoid a big heartache.
CATFISH (July 24 – Aug 23)
Catfish are traditionalists in matters of the heart, although one’s whiskers may cause problems for loved ones.
You Catfish are never easy people to understand.
You run fast.
You work and play hard.
Even though you prefer the muddy bottoms to the clear surface of life, you are liked by most.
Above all else, Catfish should stay away from Moon Pies.
GRITS (Aug 24 – Sept 23)
Your highest aim is to be with others like yourself.
You like to huddle together with a big crowd of other Grits.
You love to travel though, so you should think about joining a club.
Where do you like to go?
Anywhere they have cheese, gravy, bacon, butter, or eggs and a good time.
If you can go somewhere where they have all these things, that serves you well.
You are pure in heart.
BOILED PEANUTS (Sept 24 – Oct 23)
You have a passionate desire to help your fellow man.
Unfortunately, those who know you best, your friends and loved ones, may find that your personality is much too salty, and their criticism will affect you deeply because you are really much softer than you appear.
You should go right ahead and marry anybody you want to because in a certain way, yours is a charmed life.
On the road of life, you can be sure that people will always pull over and stop for you.
BUTTER BEAN (Oct 24 – Nov 22)
Always invite a Butter Bean to a party because Butter Beans get along well with everybody.
You, as a Butter Bean, should be proud.
You’ve grown on the vine of life, and you feel at home no matter what the setting.
You can sit next to anybody.
However, you, too, shouldn’t have anything to do with Moon Pies.
ARMADILLO (Nov 23 – Dec 21)
You have a tendency to develop a tough exterior, but you are actually quite gentle and kind inside.
A good evening for you?
Old friends, a fire, some roots, fruit, worms, and insects.
You are a throwback.
You’re not concerned with today’s fashions and trends.
You’re not concerned with anything about today.
You’re almost prehistoric in your interests and behavior patterns.
You probably want to marry another Armadillo, but a Possum is another somewhat kinky mating possibility.
April 22nd, 2010 at 6:57 am
I’m an Okra…what the hell is an okra?
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April 22nd, 2010 at 6:59 am
Whaaaa, darlin’, ahm a butter bean, fur shore!
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April 22nd, 2010 at 7:01 am
BOILED PEANUTS (Sept 24 – Oct 23)
You have a passionate desire to help your fellow man.
Unfortunately, those who know you best, your friends and loved ones, may find that your personality is much too salty, and their criticism will affect you deeply because you are really much softer than you appear.
You should go right ahead and marry anybody you want to because in a certain way, yours is a charmed life.
On the road of life, you can be sure that people will always pull over and stop for you.
Kind of sounds true, especially the charmed life part,I’m pretty lucky.
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April 22nd, 2010 at 7:03 am
Then, Sweet Punkin, what sign were you born under?
LOL.
Everything and everyone is born to a season; and for a reason.
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