Review: New and improved Upright Caddy Racr – 4 Wheel Golf Push Cart

Written by: Tony Korologos | Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf Equipment • Golf Gear • Golf Videos • Reviews
Tags: Golf Push Cart • Racr

Back in February 2009 I did a review on the “Upright Caddy Racr.” The Racr is the only four wheeled golf push cart where the golf bag is mounted in a vertical position. As I stated in my previous review, the vertical orientation of the bag makes accessing clubs way easier than any slanted cart. The clubs go in and come out of the bag so much easier. The vertical orientation also makes accessing the various pockets of the bag more convenient as well.

Upright Caddy Racr Features

Unique vertical mounting of the golf bag for ease of use with accessing clubs or bag pockets

Four wheels

Super lightweight aluminum tubing

Folding design and removable rear wheels for ultra compact size during transport and storage

Adjustable handle

Handle mounted parking brake

Racr video

Improvements for the new 4th edition Racr

In my previous review I raved about how great the Racr and the concept was, but I also had a few critiques which I felt needed to be resolved before I could fully endorse the product. I met in person with the passion and brains behind the Racr, Mr. Andrew De Carlo, and we talked at length over the design strengths and weaknesses. Andy didn’t waste any time revising the Racr and making huge improvements in the 4th edition of the unit.

Improvement 1: Airless tires

How many times have you gotten to the course and your push cart’s wheels were flat? This has happened to me more times than I can count. Naturally the pump was nowhere to be found, so I’d have to leave the cart in the car and carry my bag or ride a motorized golf cart. If I was assertive enough, I’d find the cart barn and use their pump to pump up my tires. PITA.

The new Racr has airless tires. No longer do I have to worry about pumping up the tires on my cart before my round, or worry about a tire going flat during a round of golf.

Improvement 2: Ball, cup, scorecard, pencil holder

One of my biggest problems with the previous Racr was the ball, cup, scorecard, pencil holder. The old ball holder’s holes were too small and the pencil holder was about 2x too big to fit standard golf pencils. Those problems have been resolved. The cup holder has been improved as well, but I’d still tweak that a bit if I could by adding two additional straps to cover the bottle/cup on four sides.

Impovement 3: Handle padding and features

One problem with the previous revision of the Racr involved the pad on the handle of the cart. When folded up the pad could stick to other parts of the frame, then tear off pieces of the padding when unfolding. The new version of the Racr addresses this problem and improves the handle. Thicker padding covers the handle, and a Velcro section around the handle replaces the area where the tear would occur with a place to hang a golf glove to dry. Great idea.

Improvement 4: Longer strap and telescoping frame

One problem with the old unit was on very large bags the straps weren’t long enough. This problem has been resolved with straps which are much longer and now can handle any bag I threw on the unit.

The Racr has a telescoping frame which supports the top and back of the golf bag, where the aforementioned strap attaches to. The new tubes are slightly longer to accommodate taller bags.

Improvement 5: Bottom strap

The old Racr’s bottom strap, which secured the bottom of the bag, had a ball and loop fastener. This worked OKAY, but sometimes was a bit tough to work with. A new hook and loop system are a good improvement in the new Racr.

Improvement 6: Lever added to help release frame locks during folding

To fold the main frame down on the old Racr it took two hands, one for each back frame lock. It also helped to have the brake on and/or stabilize the unit with a foot to pull them up. Now folding can be initiated with the ease of one hand with the new crossbar which attaches to both locks. What took two hands and possibly one foot, takes one hand now. That was a bit tough to describe but please see my new Racr video to get the concept.

Improvement 7: Front mount straps for accessories or small cooler

To take advantage of the space behind the front wheels and in front of the golf bag, the new Racr has some straps which could hold a cooler.

New color

Last year’s model was silver/gray in color. The new Racr can be identified by the deep semi-metallic red color. More colors may become available down the road.

Conclusion

The new edition Racr 4 wheel golf push cart is ready for prime time.

I love to walk the course but having a bad back makes carrying my bag a tough option to swallow. Pushing my bag on the Racr is very easy and fun, and allows me to walk the course without tweaking my back. Having my bag mounted vertically is so great. The Racr is very easy to set up, tear down and transport.

The HOG Racr photo gallery

Racr web site

Original Racr Review

HairZings are good for women golfers or Miguel Angel Jimenez

Written by: Tony Korologos | Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Categories: Golf Accessories • Golf For Women • Miscellaneous • Reviews
Tags: HairZings • Women's Golf

I’m starting a new category today geared toward golf for women. Maybe I can find a lady golfer out there who likes to write about stuff and can demo some of these things. If not, I’ll have to put on a skort and play with women’s clubs to get my reviews done. I digress.

I have several items in my women’s golf queue to cover, from apparel to golf accessories to…. HAIRZINGS.

What is a HairZing?

HairZings are really cool stretchy combs which gather a lady’s hair (or Miguel Angel Jimenez’s hair) into a nice design which also keeps the hair out of the way.

The player’s hair can by styled in many different ways. The HairZings come with instructions on doing different styles and there are also instructions on the very robust and well done HairZing web site.

Many sizes, styles and colors

Speaking of styles, HairZings come in many dozens of styles and colors. There are different models for different types of hair as well, short, long, thin, thick etc.

Conclusion

If you’re a golfer with long hair, HairZings might just be the ticket for keeping your hair out of your face when you’re trying to make that winning putt.

Ian Poulter videos

Written by: Tony Korologos | Saturday, August 22nd, 2009
Categories: Golf Media • Golf Videos
Tags: Ian Poulter • Oakley

Thanks to my pals at Oakley for sending me some cool links to a video series they put together with Ian Poulter on YouTube. There are a bunch of cool videos to check out.

A few instructional videos from Poulter include alignment, lob shot, draw shot, trees, practice and trouble shots.

I hear they’re currently in production of a four part instructional video series where Ian takes you through the necessary steps to create “Poulter Hair.” And finally, you can’t have an Ian Poulter feature without discussing fashion:

Six shots back after round one

Written by: Tony Korologos | Friday, August 21st, 2009
Categories: Hackers

I predicted the low score in round one of my club championship would be a 71. Sometimes I scare myself, and not just when I’m looking in a mirror. I was dead on. There were some 72’s and 73’s too.

So with my lame 77 I’m six shots behind the leader. I had three, count ’em, three, double bogeys. The final one my ball hit the fairway on a par four and I never found it. So if I don’t card those doubles, I’m tied for the lead. Yes I know. “If ifs and buts were candy and nuts we’d all have a Merry Christmas.”

Can I make up six shots during the 2nd and final round next Tuesday? Anything is possible. Is it probable? Not really, but I’ll try my best anyway.

MyLoopCard is a cool concept which needs tweaking

Written by: Tony Korologos | Thursday, August 20th, 2009
Categories: Miscellaneous • Reviews
Tags: MyLoopCard

One of my three home courses came out with some new scorecards this year. Actually they aren’t even cards, they’re booklets from MyLoopCard.

The concept

My director of golf told me he saved $1800 in scorecard printing costs by having MyLoopCard make the course’s cards. These days, saving even $18.00 helps. Good on him for finding a way to save money and keep the course in business.

MyLoopCard sells advertising to local vendors and puts them along with ads for their own online score tracking system (which says it is offline until fall of 2009) in the booklet.

Along with the ads are hole by hole diagrams of the course. This is quite helpful for players who haven’t been to the course before.

The color booklet is very impressive and classy.

The problems

So the course has saved on printing costs and the player gets the benefit of a nice booklet with hole by hole information on the course. Great.

But… there’s a big waste of paper. I do the scores for my men’s club, and we throw away the equivalent of hundreds of pages of paper every week. That’s just the Tuesday league. Over the course of a year we’re talking a serious amount of lumber being consumed and thrown away by the course. Personally I don’t care that much, but the tree huggers might have a problem with all the paper waste. Maybe the paper is recycled but I didn’t see anything mentioning that.

Problem two is the paper itself. Obviously nobody actually “tested” the cards. The cards are impressive with their full color print, yes, but the paper is coated. This makes writing on the cards with a pencil nearly impossible. I brought a buddy to my course last week and when he tried to write on the cards with a golf pencil the first words out of his mouth were “these score cards suck.” The photo above is a typical card I receive when I do my league scores. They started out in pencil and had to switch to pen.

Conclusion

Great concept but needs to switch to non coated paper for the scorecard portion!

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