Float down fairways on this hovercraft golf cart

Not par for the course: The BW1 glides over greens and ponds.

(Credit: Neoteric Hovercraft)

Golf can be frustrating on the best of days. What better way to calm your nerves than to sail around the links on this hovercraft golf cart?

Bubba Watson, 2012 Masters champion, and his sponsor, Oakley, recently teamed up with Neoteric Hovercraft to launch this super sophisticated way of getting from hole to hole.

The hovercraft maker released a video of Watson riding on a 9-foot air cushion at Arizona’s Raven Golf Club.

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The BW1 has a “footprint pressure” of 33 times less than a human footprint, leaving relatively little impact on the course itself.

Neoteric quickly modified a base model, that sells from $16,000 to $20,000,… [Read more]

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