Does Anybody NOT Like Full-Length-Dividers?

[Ye Olde Boomer]

Ever since the advent of individual, full-length dividers in golf bags, I bought in.
They make everything so neat.
The grips don't all get tangled up.
One can find the chosen club immediately.
If a club was left out on the course, one notices right away.
And as a bonus, all pockets are accessible from the front.
I can't think of a single downside.

The attachment illustrates a set-composition that I might use, but any combination of fourteen works equally well.
I would be curious as to what someone would NOT like about the cart bag configuration as opposed to the staff bag or carry bag.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

You've got your woods at the wrong end - always at the top, never at the bottom

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

You've got your woods at the wrong end - always at the top, never at the bottom

The woods ARE at the top, James.
The putter well is at the bottom.

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

Another look.

 

[Deleted member 23270]

I have a cart bag, don't like it. Going to go back to my tour bag after the winter when I start using my trolley again.

 

[Orikoru]

I would only buy a trolley bag with 14 dividers. It just fans them out nicely when you're looking for a club. My carry bag doesn't though, it has like, 6 or 7 sections I think. I figure 14-divider carry bags might be bulkier? Whereas I'd rather keep it light.

 

[Deleted member 1147]

The woods ARE at the top, James.
The putter well is at the bottom.

No, if you put that bag on a trolley the putter slot should be at the top.

 

[carldudley]

Found the best of both worlds, carry bag with 14 dividers.

I've been using it for a few months now and i couldn't go back. Good for me as i like to carry.

Ping Hoofer 14 for those interest.

 

[PJ87]

I would only buy a trolley bag with 14 dividers. It just fans them out nicely when you're looking for a club. My carry bag doesn't though, it has like, 6 or 7 sections I think. I figure 14-divider carry bags might be bulkier? Whereas I'd rather keep it light.

Not at all

Look at 14 way carry bags can get some really light ones

 

[Wabinez]

The woods ARE at the top, James.
The putter well is at the bottom.

Ironically, you are both correct....I imagine you are looking at it when it is on the back of a golf cart, not on a trolley.

When on a trolley, I would agree with James - the putter is at the top of the bag, and the woods are just underneath it.

 

[Orikoru]

Not at all

Look at 14 way carry bags can get some really light ones

Mine only cost me 15 quid from a kind chap on this forum to be fair. Maybe I'll treat myself to 14 dividers next time.

 

[Orikoru]

Ironically, you are both correct....I imagine you are looking at it when it is on the back of a golf cart, not on a trolley.

When on a trolley, I would agree with James - the putter is at the top of the bag, and the woods are just underneath it.

I have my driver and woods at the bottom (by the trolley handle) and the putter at the top with the wedges all around it. It just makes sense to me that way. If you did it the other way the driver would be hanging over all the other clubs so I can't see what I'm doing.

 

[garyinderry]

Not a fan.

I have an old 9" vinyl titleist bag with 3 compartments. Use the old plastic tubes for irons and wedges. The graphite hybrids and woods get thrown in freely.

 

[garyinderry]

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

I have this huge red, white, and blue Hogan staff bag that was given to me by the head pro at Vesper Country Club when he retired and moved to Florida. (I wasn't a member at Vesper. The man lived across the street from me.)

It weighs a ton and the top must be a foot in diameter. I keep my putter collection in it down in my man cave. Wouldn't dream of bringing it to a golf course.

I also have this beautiful Belding Bushwaker 9" bag emblazoned with the logo of the since imploded Stardust Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas. They had given it to me in appreciation of my being a valued patron. It's another man cave decoration (you've by now discerned the decor theme) holding one of my old sets. (I keep every golf club--still have my very first set.) It only has an X-shaped four-way top and looked much better than it performed.

The modern cart bags are beautiful and practical for all the reasons that I mentioned at the top of the thread. I mostly ride at my age, but riding, walking with a trolley, or <gasp> carrying, I wouldn't want anything else. The only other bag I used regularly until the course recently closed down was the antique-style "pencil" bag that I carried walking this little par 54 executive course that I used to enjoy two or three times each summer.

But golf bags are like anything else--on a subjective basis, people like what they like. Those "stick-out-legs" bag are very popular with some, and I see how'd they'd be good at the practice range. Our practice area has holders for bags, though, so they're not needed, and some folks just leave the bag on the trolley.

Anyway, the modern cart bags are so convenient from my perspective that I wondered why a person might prefer something else.

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

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Gary, my man. I'm curious. Why 11º bounce on the finesse wedge? Ever since the genre became popular, I've gone very low bounce on mine. Some have had zero. Usually 3 or 4º.
NEVER more than 6. How do you get the leading edge down for a soft little shot from a tight lie on the fringe?

 

[HankMarvin]

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Wow.........

Never seen a bag with so many woods in it, is that your wifes bag ?

 

[garyinderry]

Gary, my man. I'm curious. Why 11º bounce on the finesse wedge? Ever since the genre became popular, I've gone very low bounce on mine. Some have had zero. Usually 3 or 4º.
NEVER more than 6. How do you get the leading edge down for a soft little shot from a tight lie on the fringe?

I bottom the club out behind the ball and let the club slide into the ball. The bounce glides along the surface.

Like an intentional ever so slight fat contact. Works a treat.

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

No, if you put that bag on a trolley the putter slot should be at the top.

This is what i don't understand, James. On a cart bag, the pockets are oriented so that all pockets are accessible from the front. If the bag is on a trolley and the putter well is not at the bottom, than none of the pockets are accessible from anywhere, right?

Maybe I don't understand how the modern push-trolleys work since none of my mates use them. My familiarity is with pull-trolleys.

 

[Ye Olde Boomer]

I bottom the club out behind the ball and let the club slide into the ball. The bounce glides along the surface.

Like an intentional ever so slight fat contact. Works a treat.

Thanks.