Despite the obligatory talk about exercise, Pauma Valley is stuck in the dark ages. To my eye, customized riding carts resemble so many entries in a soap-box derby. Pull carts are more dignified. Furthermore, butt carts are the enemy of good health. Golf in a butt cart is not exercise.
Some critics claim that pull carts result in slow play.
Deliberate, inattentive and uneducated golfers slow down the game. For more than 50 years, Bag Boy has been America's most visible pull cart brand. While owner Bill Goodwin was losing tens of millions of dollars with the Ben Hogan Co. in the 1990s, he was making money with Bag Boy. Goodwin, who sold Hogan to Spalding, kept Bag Boy. Inviting a handful of Bag Boy executives to become minority owners, Goodwin oversaw a 30 percent increase in Bag Boy sales in 1998.