Bubba Watson’s Hovercraft Golf Cart

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Bubba Watson’s Hovercraft Golf Cart Will Change the Way You View Golf

Bubba Watson, owner of great pink golf clubs and player of impressive shots around trees, has a hovercraft golf cart.

Yahoo! Sports spotted this video of Watson socializing on the course in his personal hovercraft. Evidently, the vehicle is a collaboration between Watson and Oakley in an effort to make something much better designed for the complexities of the golf course – a hovercraft golf cart!

As you can see in the video, the BW1 hovercraft golf cart can head across water in an instant and leaves a far less severe footprint than routine carts. Without any uncertainty, this brand-new mode of transport in between holes is terrific for the sport – like I care. My husband dreams of one!

This thing could leave 14-foot divots behind it and he would still want one. How do you imagine he will be able to drag himself out of bed for a very early tee time and get in a weary old golf cart now?

The pleasure of taking a cart out onto the course at speeds of 10 to 20 miles per hour has actually now lost its radiance. He just needs to have Bubba’s Hover, but something tells me our neighborhood municipal course will not have these ready by the weekend.

Two Self Taught Golfers

If the hovercraft is not breathtaking enough for you, consider that Watson taught himself how to play golf. That’s right: The 34-year-old champion of the 2012 Masters gets to move around in his very own golf cart of the future, and he’s a self-made man.
Despondent? Yeah, my husband too. He is self-taught too but still dreaming of a major.

When the video surfaced of defending Masters golf competition champion Bubba Watson cruising down the fairway on his Oakley-sponsored hovercraft, the world took notice. It’s been seen by even more than 60 million people after being covered by ABC, CNN, ESPN and many sites.

It’s been such a big hit, in fact, that despite the video being a stunt by viral marketing expert Thinkmodo, the manufacturer is relocating ahead with strategies to sell the hovercraft golf cart to the public.

Neoteric Hovercraft President Chris Fitzgerald told Yahoo News he plans to produce approximately 140 of the hovercraft golf cart models this year and has needed to push back his company’s various other manufacturing orders to stay on par with surging demand.

“He’s actually forced to do it due to the fact that he’s getting a lot of questions,” Thinkmodo’s Michael Krivicka informed Yahoo News. “He’s kind of a celeb now cos of it. Millionaires from Russia are calling him, placing orders.”.

Fitzgerald acknowledged that it’s mostly a novelty, however he stated there are a couple of legitimate reasons. “They have a really low ecological impact,” Fitzgerald said. “They can also stand up to 50 mph. You can actually fly over a water danger.”.

In addition, Fitzgerald said, he’s tweaking the hovercraft golf cart cabin to make it larger. He was quick to note that along with the relatively high cost tag, this golf cart needs air travel training.
“It’s about a 12-hour course,” he said. “But when you’re done, you could fly your pals around the course.”

Still, Krivicka mentioned that not every little thing in the video, called “Bubba’s Hover,” is entirely genuine. In its current form, the hovercraft is loud. And it does not do well when going across rough terrain, as a hovercraft is drawn to depressions in the ground. If you drove next to a ditch, you ‘d probably end up crashing into it.

In a meeting from Thinkmodo’s New York workplaces, Krivicka said, “It has actually currently become the most successful marketing campaign ever for Oakley.”

“I’ve been in this company for 50 years. You can pull your hair out attempting to determine the best ways to get this info out that this innovation exists,” Fitzgerald added. “In one fell swoop it’s gotten across all these hovercraft golf cart principles to people.“.

“Pretty much everything you see in the video is real,” Krivicka said. “But we staged the crowd reactions and specifically picked a golf links in Arizona that matched our needs.”.
But the bottom line is you can now buy a flying golf cart.

First Course to Offer Hovercraft Golf Cart

Bubba Watson will not be on hand for its debut, but the Windy Knoll Golf Club will introduce 2 hovercraft golf cart s at its Ohio location later on this month.

Bubba Watson might probably lobby for commissions now.

The Windy Knoll Golf Club in Springfield will become the first in the U.S. to make 2 Neoteric Golf hovercrafts available for particular occasions starting on July 27.

To kick off the events, World Golf Hall of Famer Nancy Lopez, present LPGA Tour player Paige Mackenzie, and Golf Channel’s Tim Rosaforte will greet the arrival of the space-age vehicles that can fly over hazards and land on the eco-friendlies like the proverbial butterfly with sore feet.

Windy Knoll is a public-access, links-style track built on a former horse farm. The course is found some 30 mins from Dayton and 34 minutes from Columbus.

“We wished to have the ability to offer something no other course could,” handling director Pete Duffey stated. “A means to further put Windy Knoll Golf Club on the map of public destination golf links. It was a simple decision. When we saw them on YouTube, we said ‘We gotta have those!’”.

Neoteric’s standard markets for its hovercrafts are police, fire, the U.S. Air Force, and Disney World. Each device showcases a 65-horsepower engine that accelerates to 50 m.p.h., side-by-side seating for as numerous as 4 passengers, and 2 golf bags.

Credits: Bleacher Report, SB Nation, Neoteric Hovercraft.

So watch out for a hovercraft golf cart coming soon to your local golf course. They only cost about twice as much as a 4 wheel cart and my husband and I know which we’d rather drive!

Til Tomorrow