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Until recently I’d been using an Ogio stand bag, which I like very much. The only (minor) problem is that the stand-legs were getting slightly bent from being carried on my Sun Mountain Speed Cart. I recently replaced it with a Sun Mountain SCD cart bag, which is designed specifically with Speed Carts in mind.

So far it seems to be very well designed and constructed, with loads of features & pockets. The only thing I’ve found to gripe about is the external putter-tube. In theory it looks great; in practice the putter head rattles against my driver shaft. Reorganizing the clubs would probably fix it, but I probably won’t bother.

The location of the putter tube disqualifies this bag for me in the very first second. 

While for a on a riding cart, the location of the putter tube makes the most sense, much more sense than a size tube or clip, which will sometimes get your putter in trouble with the neighboring bag or the side of the cart-- the side tubes and clips make the most sense when you are pushing your cart, the top location is especially a problem if you have a two-ball or large mallet putter.  Maybe if you have a belly putter it might make sense.

Until a couple weeks ago I was played with an Odyssey Tri-ball for the past 18 months, and even though I always had the cover on, the cover would mark up the clubs on the same side with the putter.  If the putter had been on top, it would have been like a swinging cover over the top 4 club holes a 14-hole bag.  Now I am playing with a much smaller putter (the GolfSmith USS Enterprise putter), and it is much more kindly to the other clubs, but would still block access to part of the bag if it was on the top of the bag.

I actually keep the side section next to the putter either for wedges which sit under the putter (and are of course removed at the same time as the putter very often)- or when the Tri-ball is in the bag, I have my Speed Stik and/or ball retriever to keep the putter in it’s rightful zone.

I actually use both the bag, and the Speed cart, and like both very well. I don’t have any issues with the putter well.

BUT --

It’s not a good bag for riding carts. It’s designed to sit in a semi reclining position in the VSpeed, and as such, has all of the pockets and weight on the front. So it tips over.

Although more experimentation is called for, the best use for the putter tube might be be to make it a ball-retriever tube instead.

My current club layout is to have the woods in a column down the left side, driver on top.  The irons are in rows, with the longer irons toward the top and wedges toward the bottom.  Having individual slots for each club helps minimize search time.

I agree with the above poster. Having your golf clubs separated into individual slots is the easiest and most organized method of keeping your golf clubs neat and ready to use. I much prefer bags that allow for this and usually only use bags that allow for this.

-Scott
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