Remember, choosing right golf travel bag isn’t only about bag itself. Golfers planning a golf vacation or just looking for protection on short golf trips should ask themselves a few questions before making a purchase.

What is your budget for a golf travel bag?

Do you travel frequently with your golf clubs?

Do your golf trips mostly include air travel or auto travel?

With these questions in mind, let’s take a quick look at different styles of golf travel bags and benefits and negatives each offers.

Hybrid Travel Bags

These types of golf travel bags are essentially a golf bag with a hard top to protect your clubs. Unlike other styles, hybrids do not protect your day-to-day golf bag.

Hybrids will help golf travelers with space restrictions. They require less space than other models and also weigh less.

However, hybrid golf travel bags are not your golf bag. Therefore you must unpack and pack all of your golf gear each time you travel. These types of bags are also not best choice for airline travel.

For golfers who travel more often by automobile and have an extra set of golf clubs, hybrid golf travel bags are a good choice.

Golfers can pick up a hybrid golf travel bag for as little as $60 with top of line bags going for around $230.

Soft Golf Travel Bags

Think of this style of travel bags as a soft, padded, glove that covers your day-to-day golf bag and clubs. Usually, these bags come with a rigid bottom and wheels to help golfers carry them from location to location.

Colts / geldings when carrying a penalty - 1523 wins from 7672 runners. Strike rate 19.9% for a small loss on investment of 3.8%.

Fillies / mares when carrying a penalty - 510 wins from 2981 runners. Strike rate 17.1% for a much bigger loss on investment of 16.8%.

2. Horses blinkered for first time are known to be poor investments. However, these investments get worse older horse.

2 year olds blinkered for first time - 213 wins from 3468 runners. Strike rate 6.1% for a loss of 44.6%.

5 year olds or older blinkered for first time - 54 wins from 1356 runners. Strike rate 4.0% for a loss of 54.8%.

3. Races with no last time out winners are less competitive than those with 5 or more last time out winners.

This fact looks logical, but do people take this into account when betting?

Backing favourite in a race with no last time out winners gave following results - Strike rate 29.1% for a loss of only 8.2%.

Backing favourite in a race with 5 or more last time out winners gave following results - Strike rat 21.5% for a loss of over 17%.

4. Horses that are forecast favourites do considerably better if they actually start as favourite.

Horses that are forecast favourite and are favourite at “off ” (favourite at SP) win 34.8% of their races.