Several current PGA tour members have questioned the manhood of NCAA golfers who use push carts instead of carrying their own bag.  Golf Digest has the full scoop.  Harris English,  Billy Horschel and others seem overly offended  by the amateurs employing modern push carts (Red remembers the days of pull carts).  Not all pros have fallen in line.  Bob Estes for one indicates that he wishes he had used one as he now suffers from some medical conditions possibly caused by years of carrying a hefty bag.

Red himself forswore the use of a pull/push cart for many years and insisted on walking and carrying.  But in order to still walk as much as possible, Red has moved into the pro-push cart camp.  For those who think golf is no exercise at all – Red challenges them to walk 18 holes in the Texas summer heat sometime. Walking an average 18 hole course is typically the equivalent of about 16-20,000 steps.  That’s anywhere from 4 to 6 miles.  Red you ask, how can that be when a course is only about 7000 yards?  That leaves out the green to next tee box stroll of up to 100 yards or more, the walk around the green while putting, the searching for your and your fellow players’ balls, measuring distance, and general meandering, etc.  Lugging a 20-30 lb bag for 6 miles is really not that much fun.  Even the younger Red would usually be wondering about the sanity of same after the 14th hole.  So the pampered elites of the PGA tour who haven’t lifted a bag in years and have a caddy to cater to their every whim on the course need to layoff the amateurs – most of whom are playing for the love of the game and will never play for the big money.