{"id":843,"date":"2012-04-09T14:32:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-09T19:32:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnstrawn.com\/?p=843"},"modified":"2013-02-23T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-23T18:19:00","slug":"the-clicgear-three-wheeled-golf-cart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theaposition.com\/johnstrawn\/golf\/equipment\/843\/the-clicgear-three-wheeled-golf-cart","title":{"rendered":"The Clicgear Three Wheeled Golf Cart"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Clicgear Cart<\/a> is, as its website says, \u201cthe original compact three-wheel \u00a0golf pushcart.\u201d \u00a0 The Clicgear Cart won the 2007 Best New Product Award at the PGA Merchandise Show, providing a terrific promotional boost. \u00a0The cart has great word of mouth, too. \u00a0Two of my regular playing partners swear by it, in part because it\u2019s easier to push a cart than to pull one, and we\u2019re all dedicated walkers. \u00a0 Setting up the cart and bag takes just seconds.<\/p>\n

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The Clicgear Push Cart<\/p><\/div>\n

What\u2019s unique about the Clicgear Cart is, in fact, how easily it can be folded up into a small, portable, and storable unit. \u00a0On Saturday, I saw ample testimony to Clicgear\u2019s popularity when I was hanging out at Pumpkin Ridge\u2019s Ghost Creek course in the wake of a long frost delay. \u00a0 There were more than a dozen Clicgear Carts arrayed in front of the clubhouse and around the putting green.<\/p>\n

A couple of dozen accessories are available for the cart, too, so every owner can customize his unit. \u00a0You can add a shoe brush (very useful in the Northwest), an adjustable umbrella stand, a cup holder and even a seat. \u00a0A couple of GPS holders are available, and one of them can be adapted for an IPhone, which makes it the perfect complement to Grow the Game Golf\u2019s \u00a0scoring app.\u00a0\u00a0Followers of the Golf Road Warriors\u2019 Palm Springs<\/a> and Reynolds Plantation<\/a> trips are familiar with Grow the Game Golf<\/a>\u2014\u201cGTGG\u201d. \u00a0 The GTGG app is especially suited to corporate outings and events. \u00a0 With it, multiple foursomes can not only keep track of their own scores but see how all the other groups are doing in real time. \u00a0 The Clicgear \u201cView\u2122 3.0 Push Cart GPS Holder\u2122\u201d makes the GTGG app even easier to use by mounting the smart phone right onto the cart handle.<\/p>\n

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iPhone holder for Clicgear Cart. Great for GTGG App<\/p><\/div>\n

Clicgear is manufactured and distributed by the ProActive Sports Group<\/a>, a golf products company based in Canby, Oregon, a small town near Portland. \u00a0 Clicgear is the company\u2019s best-known product, but it also makes and sells hundreds of other items, many of which are created in Canby. \u00a0 A new ProActive product about to hit the market is a towel called The Looper, which I happened to notice at this year\u2019s PGA Merchandise Show when I walked by ProActive\u2019s stand. \u00a0 It caught my attention because I have a friend whose nickname is \u201cLooper,\u201d and I wanted to get one for him. \u00a0Greg Freuler, Proactive\u2019s Director of Product Development, told me In Orlando that the towel wasn\u2019t in stores yet, but should be by spring. \u00a0 We made arrangements to meet in Canby so I could tour ProActive\u2019s facilities.<\/p>\n

I finally managed to get to Canby last week, where Greg introduced me to company President Steve Skinner. \u00a0In a small conference room, Greg had set out samples of some of the prototypes they\u2019d worked on \u00a0for new products, including the Looper. \u00a0Getting the hole that fits over the club just right was part of the challenge. \u00a0Same thing with the mittens that attach to the handle of the Clicgear in inclement weather. \u00a0Several generations of proto-mittens chronicled the process of invention. \u00a0 The mittens needed thumbs, it turned out\u2014the first versions were more like fat socks, while the final product not only lets your hands slip in easily, it has a pouch for a hand-warmer.<\/p>\n

Steve and Greg told me the Looper, which like most golf gear is made in China, was just arriving via cargo container in Los Angeles, and would be in stores soon. \u00a0I talked them into giving me a prototype for my friend, Larry Colton, whose kit needs an upgrade to offset the decay in his swing.<\/p>\n

ProActive also has a product line called Origins of Golf\u2122, which offers a variety of trophies and commemorative gifts. \u00a0There\u2019s a shop above the administrative offices where the bespoke products are customized for member-guests and club championships and even professional events. \u00a0A laser machine can create a three-dimensional image on a crystal trophy using digital instructions\u2014almost as simple as using a printer.I discovered that ProActive also carries a couple of other of my favorite gadgets. \u00a0 4YardsMore is my favorite tee. \u00a0Lasts forever, always set the ball at the perfect height, and seems to produce on its promise. \u00a0(Although my Callaway RAZR Fit driver<\/a> has added so many yards to my tee ball that I can\u2019t distinguish the tee\u2019s effect so readily anymore.)<\/p>\n

And then there\u2019s Ka-Ching!\u2122, a set of coins that add to the pleasure of any competitive match. \u00a0 Last year at Chambers Bay, a caddy gave us a Ka-Ching!\u2122 Birdie coin, which is a \u201c+2,\u201d telling us that whoever made the last birdie of a round would collect $2 from everyone else. \u00a0We\u2019ve been playing that game now for almost a year, not realizing that the Birdie coin was an orphan from a ten coin set. \u00a0And there are good coins and bad coins\u2014three pars in a row, for example, earns three points, while a triple bogey costs three points. \u00a0 The beauty of the game is that coins can and do change hands, right up until the last green. \u00a0The coins also double as ball-markers. \u00a0I recommend Ka-Ching!\u2122 to any regular foursome.<\/p>\n

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Ka Ching Coins<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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