New startup gBike combines golf and cycling

With the right amount of weight over the back I can see this being a wheelie machine.

That Is just plain ugly.

Only people who would put up with that are those who need a younger friend to tell them where their ball lands.

Imagine the grief your mates would give you if seen getting out of this.

@Deeferdonk
There is nothing interesting about being curarised, while a machine breathes for you. I'd rather not remember the nightmare hallucinations.

I play golf (sorry, cricket & football too - love sport, me). This is bollocks.

I'm worried that there are at least 2 people on this short thread who seem to have some knowledge (i.e. too much:) of golf. Keep cycling friends! I've had a near death experience and, from what I hear about golf, that experience was more interesting.
There's no point in the half dead pointing out that you can get a lot of social interaction going, we can do that better with real sports and physical activities.

Seriously, just why, to get golfers round quicker? People just play through if there's a group ahead who are slower.

And if it's two or more people in a group and one can't walk too fast then the whole group would need them otherwise you're still waiting for the slowest person and that's unsocial. Can just imagine 2/3/4 of these on at any given hole and if one group takes them and the group in front are on foot, then what, oh yeah, play through again, then you have another big gap between groups of players.

Those who can't walk fast are unlikely to want to use a two wheeled bike with a heavy load on the back anyway, a trike would have being far more useful both stability and safety wise given that a course is grass with all it's undulations on a course. Afterall you're aiming this at those who are less physically capable right?

Even the seat is too small.

An idea that could have helped but actually next to zero thought went into it as to who this is supposed to be helping and hence why the design falls short of being useful/capable of actually solving the supposed problem of slow play.

@StuInNorway the tires seem more fatbike than MTB and given that it is a single seater it will probably have less surface load than usual 2-seaters golf buggies.

" They say golf is the new cycling..."

I thought cycling was the new golf? Or is it back round to golf again?

Might be an idea to ask the golf clubs if they will allow these on their courses first. I know a LOT of courses that would simply flat out refuse to allow these on the grass as they are likely to leave ruts in teh grass if there has been any rain at all, with both rider and clubs weight on 2 narrow wheels. 
There is a reason golf trolleys use big, wide, flat wheels.  
There are also plenty clubs don't even allow trolleys. 
 

It also looks like it'll be unstable, if they'd simply gone with an E-fat-bike and hitch for golf trolley the weight would at least be better spread.

Is it April 1st already?

Why spoil a good ride?