Intech PowerTrac Golf Cart - Not Bad for 29 Bucks

One of the things you will find yourself needing when you start playing golf is a cart to drag that heavy golf bag around on. Oh you could play he-man and carry the damn thing, but I'm a chick and I ain't about needing to act all buff. heh. No. I want things made as easy as humanly possible for me.

I'm also a tightwad at times, so when I decided to take up the game a few years ago I went with the Intech PowerTrac Golf Cart at first, mainly because it was only like $29. At the time I figured hey, it's got wheels man.. what more do I need? Right? Well... now I'm saying this is not a bad starter cart if you are on a budget, but you'd do better to go straight to the Bag Boy Express if you can afford it... but I'm getting ahead of myself here.

The PowerTrac by Intech is a pull cart, as opposed to a push cart... the push cart is better by far, but the majority of the carts available are in fact pull carts. This is hard on the shoulder and arm muscles after awhile and that does effect your swing if you're a pansy like me. I much prefer exhausting myself by slamming my club into the ground and cussing rather imaginatively. Swearing and violence is way more satisfying than wearing my arthritic self out wrestling around a damned golf bag and/or cart.

The PowerTrac has a wide tube steel frame which makes it very lightweight. I have little trouble folding/unfolding it and loading it to and from my Jeep by myself. Did I mention I'm a 5'2" wussy-girl? In fact, it's just one step to collapse this PowerTrac cart, and pretty much just as easy to pull it back out. It collapses to a nice compact degree which fits easily in the Jeep along with my bag, a push cart, and another golf bag. That's a lot of stuff.

It has a waterproof scorecard holder up on the handle tube which doesn't work too bad, although keeping a pencil in the designated slot is a chore. It's a bit too tight of a fit so you're better off keeping your writing implement in your pocket, really.

You do have to install the wheels when you first buy this PowerTrac cart, but it's super easy. Hey, I did it, so pretty much anyone can. They aren't inflatable tires though like the Bag Boy. This is both a good thing and a bad thing. Good in that you don't have to carry an air pump around, but bad in that it doesn't roll quite as easily. That doesn't mean the roll is hard, just not quite as nice. Hey, it was 29 bucks, OK? The tires are a soft rubber/plastic kinda stuff.. not hard like you imagine when you look at them.

It does have a nice wide wheel base and that helps with the pulling quite a bit. The tires have an anti-slide tread too.

The frame has a duel-strut reinforcement, which just means the tubes running from the main frame to the tires is two instead of one. I classify that as a guy thang. We'll speak no more about it. heh.

The top handle is like one you would find on a shovel. Closed, but not like round.. kinda ummmm yeah straight across the top and U-shaped at the bottom.

My main problem with the Intech PowerTrac carts is the straps that actually are supposed to hold the bag on the thing. Yeah, I said supposed to. My bag just does not sit quite right no matter what I do here. It's always kinda flopping over to the side which throws the weight of the thing off just enough to get me swearing at it profusely. Still better than just carrying the bag, but a bit irritating.

For those that care about such things, it does come with a detachable water bottle. Nothing special, just your basic cheap bottle here folks.

The PowerTrac does come with a one year manufacturer's warranty from King Par.

So yeah, the Intech PowerTrac is not bad if you're on a budget... but if you can spring for the 100 bucks go with the Bag Boy Express I mentioned earlier instead. 3 stars.