Standup Golf Scooter

OK my golf club seems to have finally relented and is beginning to allow golf scooters. Now the golf scooters available are more like 4 wheel mobility scooters modified with a golf bag attachment lumped on the side or at the back. Pretty ugly, heavy, not easily transportable, not very fashionable to the younger amongst us.

So what about an off road standup scooter with a golf bag attachment over the front wheel. Obviously wheel size is going to need to be larger ( possibly two ) and as my course is somewhat hilly, it will need to have good climbing at slow speed. Height off the ground need not be too large as this is all about going relatively slowly over flatish ground. I would suggest two wheel drive maybe a bonus as it can get muddy in the winter months.

My question is does anybody know of existing modified standups or better still available standups suitable for modifying. Ideas and thoughts please.

Id check with them about 2 wheels before bringing one, their issue might be related to psi on the ground and not causing depressions in the grass. Although I imagine a fat wheeled 2 wheel scooter exerts less pressure on the ground than a fatty fat gold cart. Regardless, looking at wide tires is probably a must. Front wheels on many zero turn mowers might serve.
If you have a single wheel up front, do not mount the golf bag to the handlebars in any way, weight that moves with the bars makes steering exponentially harder. If able, Id avoid that much weight on the front all together. Its much less noticeable on the rear, esp if you can keep it low. Balancing might be a little harder though. Perhaps a trike so the weight can ride between the rear wheels?

Depending on your skills, a normal mobility scooter, stripped of all plastics and seat, with some fab, might serve as a cooler stand up scoot.

Yes you would have to run turf tyres but they are commonly available in 11"

What is the scooter you have pictured ?

I have this one, though not used for golf.



Fat tires, very good suspension and 2 or 4 wheel drive. (Get the 4WD).

Waynemarlow said:

What is the scooter you have pictured ?

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Mototec fat tire but it goes under a bunch of names, a bunch of rebrands of an ali scoot I guess.

I'm guessing you want two wheeler so that you can boot from home to the course without a car.

However, three wheels make a lot of sense. Pissy little kickstand, on soft grass, 50 times for a round of 18, is intolerable. You'll spend more time preventing it from toppling than you'll save walking the course.

Auto braking is also a an almost essential feature for golfing. You want to be able to jump off/out without having to engage a park brake.

I agree that regular four wheel carts are lacklustre, but I'm not convinced you're barking up the right tree with a road going two-wheeled standup.

No not road going, but I need to be able to load it into a boot of a car. Most of the smaller more powerful scooters all fold.

I had wondered about a 3 wheeler to allow the unit to remains stood up. As in 2 front wheels and a single more wider rear wheel. I've spent a lot of time on quads and the larger wider with low pressure tyres work the best throughout the seasons.

Agree auto braking would be ideal.

Somewhere I've seen a 3 wheel golf scooter on line but in typical USA fashion, it really wasn't small in any way or shape.

I recently saw someone riding one of these around the local trash and treasure market, doing his shopping:


There's identical ones for two thirds the price on Aliexpress, I only selected that link because it has the best photos.

I was impressed with what little I saw, and he had a huge smile. He was an elderly gent, or else I would've asked if he could jump off and let me take it for a spin.

I spent 40 hours building something similar for a friend with knee trouble. No regrets, but I wouldn'tve done it if I knew there were out of the box options.

Thanks for the reply.

I saw that one this morning when I started doing a bit more poking around. Quite cool but has only a 250W motor on the front wheel. There are extended rear axle versions as well. Be a great start to take the seat off, fit two foot pads over the rear axle and two rear motors on the rear wheels ( max grip ).

There are quite some interesting almost conventional powered golf trolleys with a trailing attachment which you stand on. Never as cool looking as scooter with bag on the front lol. Let’s keep the ideas coming in.

You really don't want a seat?

I often find myself sitting on the grass when the course is backed up. Fine unless the grass is wet, then a seat would be handy. Can be five minutes waiting at a tee on busy days. Too long for me stand. I enjoy walking, just can stand standing still.

Rear wheel drive would be preferable in most regards. Adds significant weight is all.

Worm drive transaxle is a good tool for the job. Gobs of torque, and takes care of park brake so it'll never roll away.

You can get single-sides ones for independent rear drive. They're less common, but are used on some small mobility scooters without suspension.

The motor ratings aren't very applicable to golf. It's very low duty cycle, with ample time for motors to cool, so you could likely dump 1200w into those little 250w rated motors if they can generate that much load.

Not that you'll need it. The three wheeler I built is 48V, with two 24V motors in series fed 15A peak. So, 700 watt peak. It's ample with big gear reduction. 10km/hr top speed, monos from standstill, accelerates fast, and climbs any grade it encounters, including off-road. Only difference more juice would make is slightly faster climbing, say 8km/hr instead of 6km/hr. Hardly significant, and golf is not a pastime for impatient people.

Any piccies of your unit.

We are still relatively fit but Friday night after work golf necessitates a buggy to get around before dark. Now being an off road Ebike addict, a scooter sounds a lot of fun more fun, far more fun than the Geo fenced buggies we have



One of these guys with appropriate tyres (much wider or it will leave tyre marks everywhere ) and bag on the front is sort of what I'm thinking. An old fashioned motorcycle dual sided stand would be relatively easy to add.

Even with a good kickstand I think three wheels would be far preferable. You can ride it without having to concentrate, one handed, no handed even. You can jump on and off. Sit on it. Won't topple over. Won't roll away. No faffing with kickstands. Attract less grief from uptight course users. Really lots of benefits.

I didn't document the one I built. I started with a "parmaker spirit" (see photo link). It's a decent golf cart, but I was more in need of a setup to tow my father to the swimming pool, so used it with a home made trailer - basically a lounge chair on wheels. Cooked the motors on a hot day going up hill, which was predictable despite having fan forced the motors to try avoid it.

So, after that decided to repurpose the chassis. Swapped the heavy steel fork, steering column, and bars for pretty much a razor scooter one. Moved the seat forward and added footrests either side of the front wheel. Cut the rear end off much shorter. Built a steel battery box, and bolted worm drive trans axles to each side. Wheels are all 4" rims. Vehicle is now much lighter, shorter and lower, with rider weight perfectly centred, so barely resembles a parmaker spirit any more.

The motors I took from a "fisher & paykel" Columbus. See photo. They're excellent, but the rest of the vehicle is not - typical over complicated controls and ridiculously heavy.

Nice one in some ways, large and powerful I would guess.

Knew there had to be one out there as a production machine.

Are they in production? Those are some rather AI-looking fake pics.