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Golf Travel Bags for Sale: What You Need and Why

Posted by Dallas Golf on 02 Feb 2021

As a golfer, you may not seek out golf travel bags for sale unless you have a specific need for them. Not all golfers do. Some golfers, who only play on local courses that they can easily drive to, may just cover their club heads in their stand bags, pack their stand bags up in the trunk, and do it that way.

Some golfers might not even have a pressing need for both a cart bag and a stand bag, although many have both. However, golfers who travel both near and far and take protecting their equipment seriously will at some time or other find themselves appreciative for that golf travel bag they picked up on a whim.

And perhaps the matter is that you don’t want to purchase one on a whim but want to invest in one with purpose. If that is the case, then here’s what you need to know about golf travel bags for sale.

Not for Play, for Peace of Mind

A golf travel bag is essentially useless anywhere but in the course of travel. Stand bags are light and easy to carry. They even have legs so that they can stand on their own while you tee off, or just practice at the range. They’re economical and practical, and make it easier for you to walk the course and bring along your gear.

Cart bags provide functionality that is more similar to a stand bag than to a travel bag. Though they lack legs and are typically larger and more ungainly than equivalent stand bags, cart bags are often made with forward-facing pockets so that you can easily access all of your equipment without having to move or reposition your cart bag.

In short, both of these types of golf bags are designed for play, but travel bags are not. Travel bags are intended to give you more peace of mind when you’re traveling and are not intended to be used during play.

So What’s the Difference?

That does beg the question of the difference. Well, consider this: all stand bags and cart bags are designed to be taken on the course or brought along in the back of a golf cart. Travel bags are enclosed, covering the entire set of clubs and equipment. Many golf travel bags for sale are designed to house an entire stand bag loaded with clubs, giving you two layers of protection.

The first is the stand bag that houses our clubs and gear and the second is the travel bag that encloses them. Many golf travel bags take this a step further, adding in a number of other protections that give you additional peace of mind resulting from the protection of your gear.

For example, many travel bags are made with a hard outer shell that effectively shelters all of your gear against impact. As these tend to be large and ungainly, they are usually intended to be wheeled about via a set of wheels and a tow handle.

There are even high-quality soft-sided bags that, though they lack the rigid outer wall of some travel bags, ensure your clubs come to no harm. Oftentimes these bags are heavily padded and luxuriously lined to protect your golf clubs. Some of them even have internal retention straps to keep your clubs and equipment from rattling around or being damaged during golf trips.

How Do I Pick out the Best of the Best?

With that in mind, how can you be sure to pick up the best possible travel case for your purposes? Well, all golf travel bags are a little bit different, but some of the following traits represent a good place to start.

●“Burst Proof” features: Some of the golf travel bags for sale on our website, the Club Glove Last Bag, in particular, boast of this feature. Burst proof means that the bag is designed to take on a heavy or large load without the risk of the bag failing. This particular bag is made from Invista Cordura Nylon that is both tougher and longer-lasting than similar polyester fabrics. Nylon is a very tough synthetic and it’s great to see Club Glove taking advantage of it here. Cordura Nylon has been marketed at “RipStop” Nylon in other areas. It is extremely tough and resists tearing. So much so, that even if you puncture through the material, it is extremely tough to get the tear to travel. That’s why it’s called the Last Bag. It’s the Last Bag you’ll ever need!

●Light weight: Reading this, you might be thinking, “Light weight is a feature of stand bags. Why does it matter here?” Well, you got us. It is a feature that is most desirable in stand bags and, to a lesser degree, in cart bags. However, lightweight design is something to be appreciated in basically any type of golf bag. No, you won’t be walking the course with a travel bag in tow, and if you are, you’ll be wishing that you weren’t. Still, when it comes time to load the travel bag into a truck, onto a cart, or into a bus or a loading ramp for a plane, you’ll be equally happy you got yourself the lighter one of two otherwise equal options. Shop smart and maybe you can save both your wallet and your arms.

●Ability to fit another bag inside of it: Most travel bags will give you this option, and it is a valuable feature to capitalize on where you can find it. Incidentally, the Club Glove Last Bag in question is also capable of fitting another stand bag entirely within it. There are a few reasons this is valuable. For one thing, it gives you an additional layer of protection, being the padding of the travel bag, along with the protection of the first bag (the stand bag). The other thing is that it is just so much more convenient. If you choose a separate travel bag, then you need to unload the bag you want to use, put all of your equipment in the travel bag, and then redistribute it all once you get where you’re going. You might as well use a suitcase, but whatever works best for you.

●Water-resistance: You shouldn’t bank on your travel bag being left in the rain or even getting caught in the rain, but you should plan for contingencies anyway. Many travel bags are made with water-resistant fabrics and other materials. Obviously, you could throw your stand bag with the rain hood up inside of your travel bag, but then the travel bag would get all soaked being left out in the rain. We guess the idea here is to avoid the rain if possible but to plan for it anyway. It might not be the first thing you look for in a travel bag, but water-resistant features are well worth the extra effort if you can find them.

●Tough zippers: Have you ever been playing a game of golf when one of the zippers on your equipment fails, all out of left field? Actually, to paint an accurate picture, it doesn’t even need to be on your golf bag. It could be on your jacket or on another piece of gear. There’s little more that’s frustrating than a zipper that calls it quits at an inopportune time, as though there could be an opportune time for such things. Anyway, the zippers that many golf travel bags are made with are seriously heavy duty. You can’t risk the bag failing just when you need it most. Considering the prime purpose - the only purpose, really - of a travel bag is to protect your gear, this is especially important. If a zipper on a stand bag fails on the course you can pick up dropped gear. If it happens in transit, you may never get some of your gear back.

●The ability to display an ID: Have you ever had a hard time, say, at the airport, trying to claim your luggage? Someone else gets the same color bag as you, or worse, the same exact bag as you, and all madness breaks loose. Luckily, many golf travel bags for sale are made with ID sleeves so you can be sure of what’s yours and what isn’t with no more than a glance. At the very least, the Club Glove travel bag mentioned above comes with this functionality, so there’s that.

●Wheels and a tow handle: There’s something else about a golf travel bag that you might want to keep in mind, even though it has absolutely nothing at all to do with protecting your drivers, putters, irons, golf balls, and other equipment. It has to do with how easy (or hard) it is to transport the bag. Get yourself a travel bag that has not only wheels and a tow handle. Admittedly, pretty much any travel bag worth its salt will have roller wheels so you can easily transport it, but go the extra mile and make sure you get one with a stiff arm or a tow handle so you can easily wheel it around. The thing is going to be a pain to carry or tow around without it.

●High impact base and supports: Something else to look for, and one that does impact the protective nature of the golf bag, is a high impact base and internal supports. For one thing, a high impact base will help to ensure the longevity of the golf bag itself. As far as the supports are concerned, it’s best to get a golf travel bag that can not only support its own loaded weight but also a little bit of force. That’ll give your travel bag the backbone it needs to serve you through many seasons.

●Integrated carry handles: Integrated carry handles are every bit as important as wheels and a tow handle because, let’s face it, you can’t wheel your travel bag around everywhere you go. Sooner or later you’re going to have to pick the thing up when it’s loaded, even if just for a moment. At that moment, you’ll be more than glad if you made the wise choice to get a travel bag with a comfortable set of carrying or lifting straps. When you need to get your loaded travel bag off of a luggage carousel, out of high storage space, or up out of the trunk, you’ll thank yourself.

●The protection of a warranty: Many travel bags, like other golfing equipment, come with various warranties. These will vary according to the model, but a good warranty will give you a little bit of extra peace of mind in the long term. This is especially true if you buy from a reputable manufacturer like Club Glove, Titleist, or Sun Mountain.

●Additional features: In addition to the features mentioned throughout this article, there are some nice additional things you might find valuable in a golf travel bag. Personal preferences become paramount here, but some of the additional things you might look for are a combination of inner padding and rigid outer walls, the ability to fold a tow handle, additional ergonomic features for carrying the bag, and specialized pockets. Really, though, do some soul searching. We can’t tell you what you want in a travel bag. You have to figure that out on your own.

Call Us for More Details!

You can see some of the traits mentioned above in many of the golf travel bags for sale on our website, but if you have questions about a specific model you should feel free to reach out to us! Our team of professionals is always willing to help and we’re only ever a phone call away at 800-955-9550.

You can also visit us in our store if you ever happen to be in our area. Our physical location is in Dallas, Texas - come on in any time you’re in our neck of the woods and you can actually get to know some of these travel bags before you buy one!