We’ve written about customizing golf carts for all sorts of uses: camping, hunting, retirement, gardening, horse training, you name it. What about golf itself? One of our favorite customized golf carts for use on the golf course is the Club Car Precedent series.

One of the most exciting things about the Precedent is how Club Car designs each around Connected technology. These feature great calling cards that can set golf courses and country clubs apart:

Electronic Scorecard: This is a great feature. It’s such a simple idea, and it allows golfers to keep score as they play. The best part is that you can e-mail the scorecard to yourself. E-mailing these scorecards to yourself allows you to set up your own analytics and see how your game has improved over the months.

Although it’s not advertised like this, we sometimes like to enter an opponent’s e-mail and send it to them as a reminder of who won that day.

GPS Zone: This is a messaging feature that can keep golfers in the know about what’s happening at the course or club. You can feature sales at the pro shop, or food and beverage ads. Or you can rotate announcements for upcoming events.

One clever way of using it is to boost the prestige of playing at your club. You could keep an updated feature of top players that month, or winners of local tournaments recently held there. By knowing their name will be scrolling through every GPS Zone on every golf cart, players will become more excited to compete and win. This is a neat way to boost word of mouth and anticipation for tournaments.

Tournament Software: Of course, this means featuring software to help a golfer keep track of where they are in a tournament. Tournament software helps them see where they need to be to keep pace. It helps golfers stay up to date with the event as it’s happening. This can help golfers stay more focused on what they need to do on an upcoming hole.

No-Go Zones: Someone always drives on the green. It’s frustrating for the course owner because you’ve got to protect and upkeep them. If it’s not that, someone drives a golf cart into a bunker. That’s a pain to get out again. With No-Go Zones, you can actually predetermine areas where the golf cart won’t let a driver take it. This is an easy way to cut down on maintenance costs and keep your carts safe and undamaged.

Cart Tracking: Tracking of the cart allows you to keep track of where a cart’s being taken. This is useful if a driver goes for a joyride or the cart takes off on its own.

The Club Car Precedent really thinks ahead when it comes to modernizing the golf experience. Of course, customized golf carts also mean you can change up every element of the cart – from mechanical parts and colors to accessories and advanced connected features.

We maintain a golf cart app that’s updated with new parts and features every month. This allows you to sit down beside your customer, whether they’re an individual golfer or a golf course owner. Customizing golf carts helps you and the customer build elements in with the latest parts on offer from a variety of makers and suppliers.

Golf car dealers (Club Car, EZGO and Yamaha) would you like to be able to build a custom golf cart in a few minutes for your customers? Now you can!

We make it easy to go from Vision to your mechanics hand for assembling. BYGC Software making it easier to add-ons and sell more.

We made sure that Nivel parts & accessories were among the first featured on the Build Your Golf Cart app. They have some great lift kits and some very nice outside-the-box ideas that other parts manufacturers don’t focus on. More than anything else, they offer a wide selection of just about any part you’d ever need on a golf cart. This makes “under the hood” tinkering easy when you’re still customizing golf carts for a customer.

Range of Nivel Parts

One of the biggest advantages of Nivel is the sheer range of parts on offer. You can get most anything on its own, so if a single part ever needs backup or to be replaced, you can just focus on that part. This makes Nivel one of the best resources for individual parts, particularly when it comes to brakes.

This can make them appealing to tinkerers, but it’s of particular advantage when making a sale to a business that’s buying a number of golf carts. That might be a golf course or country club, or a campground. Maybe it’s a retirement community or hunting club.

Larger Businesses Need Wider Coverage

These businesses drive their carts on a daily basis. They have experience pushing golf carts to their limits and often have enough experience that they know which extra parts they’ll be needing when making a new order. Having Nivel’s full range of parts a button click away when you’re customizing golf carts is tremendously useful. For those buying carts in bulk, it means that you can swiftly and easily add in the extra parts that a business knows it will need.

It’s helpful that Nivel’s parts cover the full range of customizable carts, including Club Car, EZGO, and Yamaha. Being able to scan these in conjunction with parts offered through other sellers helps you to find the best price on very specific items. That means you can offer extras to close a sale while also ensuring that you save the most money when including those extras.

Useful Extras for Larger Buyers

There are some other elements that Nivel offers which aren’t offered in too many other places. Nivel offers some of our favorite enclosures on the market, making carts much more operable in rainy weather and offering protection against mosquitoes and bugs. This isn’t the kind of thing that will close a deal, but remembering how someone wants to use a golf cart and highlighting it for them as an addition will help them feel that you’re on their side.

We also like the repair kits that Nivel offers. You don’t want to talk about repair when you’re selling golf carts, but throwing in some Nivel repair kits is a nice added bonus that can help close a sale with a larger buyer. They’ll be doing a lot of on-site repair down the road, so it lets them know you’re aware of their needs.

Customization-as-a-Service

Our Build Your Golf Cart app is subscription-based, which gives it an advantage over fire-and-forget customization apps. These apps can leave you with parts catalogs that are months or even years old. That’s not useful for you as a dealer. It can undermine a sale, which is why we approach a customization app with an as-a-service mentality. Parts are updated every 30 days, with offerings kept current and responsive to inventory.

A customized EZGO RXV is an unparalleled golf cart for quick, reliable movement. We often write about golf carts that are ideal for a range of activities: camping, hunting, work at a stables or ranch. What about an ideal golf cart for the golf course and residential areas?

This is where a customized EZGO RXV offers some of the strongest performance. There are more than a few elements at play here:

AC drivetrain efficiency: This focuses on increased efficiency, allowing you to run the RXV for an extended period of time between charge-ups. It also means an electric golf cart with serious hill climbing ability. It retains 97% of its speed climbing hills. How is this? The power is delivered with more efficiency and response than a direct current. You get this extra power with less energy use for the output.

This kind of power also means a noticeable advantage in acceleration over other golf carts. That’s a nice thing to have, whether you’re on the course or you’re using the golf cart in a residential area. It certainly makes sure you have the most impressive golf cart on the block.

The AC drivetrain produces 15% better efficiency than a comparable DC drivetrain. That means less hassle plugging it back in and recharging it.

IntelliBrake system: There are two core components to EZGO’s IntelliBrake system. The motor brake is applied when going up or down a steep incline. This can help you maintain finer control when going up or down hills. The motor brake also engages as a parking brake when the vehicle is stopped. This means you no longer have to manually set and release the brake. It saves you some hassle on the golf course and it’s just a common sense use of the motor brake to help keep your golf cart secured.

IntelliBrakes offer something much more, however. They provide regenerative braking. What does this mean? Brakes create energy by creating heat. This is a result of the friction as they try to stop. Instead of simply wasting this, the RXV captures this energy and uses it to recharge the batteries. Every time you brake in an EZGO RXV, you’re regenerating the batteries at the same time. This process can return 21% to the batteries, which further improves the RXV’s superior efficiency.

Customization: The EZGO RXV can be easily customized for luxury or for all-terrain use. We do this through Build Your Golf Cart app. Unlike other golf cart customization services, this one’s constantly updated through a subscription model. This lets you easily sit beside your prospective customer and customize the EZGO RXV together with the latest parts. That way, dealer and customer can build a dream golf cart together as two enthusiasts excited about what they’re making, rather than salesman and buyer.

The app can save particular customer builds for dealers as well, allowing you to swoop in and make changes. Saved builds also make it easy to see what new parts are in so you can contact your buyer with even better upgrades to customize the EZGO RXV. It’s a beautiful golf cart to be able to customize.

When you’re putting together a subscription service for customizing golf carts, you look at all parts. We wanted to put as many on there as possible and keep them current, updating every month. With the experience that we have, we’ve developed favorite parts and customizations that we’re fond of. Some of our favorites are customizing golf carts with Madjax parts. These are just a few out of our favorite customization options that can really help connect a customer with a cart:

Winch: They’ve got a great universal mount winch that’s useful when customizing golf carts for heavy outdoors and off road use. It can get you out of a spot when combined with a more powerful cart build, which makes it useful for hunting and camping alike.

Cargo: One of the parts that customers seem to enjoy most when customizing a cart with their dealer is how cargo is hauled on it. It’s funny, you can arrange brackets, cargo beds, baskets, and trays however you like and it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’ll carry that much more than another design. It’s really the personalizing that people love. It makes them feel like the golf cart is an extension of themselves. You can go through controllers and lifts and upgrades galore, but sometimes what really connects someone to a cart is finding the perfect way to arrange carrying all their gear. It’s because that’s something practical they can picture interacting directly with themselves.

Controllers: That said, Madjax has some pretty nice torque controllers that cover a hefty range of capability.

Lift Kits: They have a good selection of lift kits, focusing on Club Car and E-Z-Go models. This is an obvious inclusion, but we’ve got to mention it because those are two of the manufactures that we offer customization from (the third being Yamaha).

Light Kits: Madjax has an eye for lighting that’s useful in practical situations – once again focusing their cart customization for the off road and utilitarian crowd. These build on other strengths (the number of Madjax brush guards we have seems a little silly, but once again this is the kind of personality customization that helps customers connect with a cart as you design it with them).

We can only feature a few in this space, but customizing golf carts with Madjax parts offers a range of capable options. Other accessories we implement through our customization and design software include chargers, audio accessories, seats, tops & struts, cushions, covers, enclosures, steering wheels, trim, graphics…the list goes on. The goal is to make it easy for dealers to access the very latest customizations and accessories so that they can help a customer realize every specific they want. There’s surprisingly not a lot of software that offers this, let alone that keeps updating with the latest options every month. It’s a powerful tool for dealers to harness – customers are leaning more and more toward customizing golf carts.

The use of golf carts for hunting has become wildly popular. Custom Club Car builds for hunting carts often include a higher torque engine to let you climb hills without losing speed. Couple this with a lift kit and all-terrain style tires and you have a hunting cart that looks and acts the part. These customizable options also mean the ability to carry more people and gear for hunting parties.

We all know stock options on a cart aren’t always best suited for this kind of work. You need to customize a hunting cart for your customer’s exact needs. Build Your Golf Cart allows you to sit with your customer and customize together on our app. This helps you build the conversation with them and helps them feel more in control and more sure about what the end product will be like.

Which Customers Benefit Most from Customized Hunting Carts

These hunting carts save you the long trek back and forth and make wider ranges accessible to you, but this isn’t all. They also expand who can hunt. Customers might want to take their children hunting, but fear how tired they’ll become with all the walking.

On the other end of the spectrum, many hunters experience limitations as they get older. Bad hips, knees, and backs severely limit what an older hunter can take on. They lose the ability to continue pursuing their passion. Yet with a custom Club Car built for the hunt, you can design a cart side-by-side with these customers, one that can help them get to their favorite spots with all their gear.

A good custom camo build for a golf cart gives you access to any road in decent shape, as well as the paths that larger vehicles can’t access.

Customizing a Club Car for Hunting

Obviously, the first things to select are the core of the cart – engine, controller, lift kit, and tires. We’ll delve into these, but oftentimes it’s the little things that make the difference between a hunting cart feel like a powerful, personalized tool.

Good custom pieces include a front rack, a gun holder, gas engines, improved headlights, and flip-down rear seats.

A front rack allows you to carry more supplies, as well as protecting the front of the cart as you power through bramble.

Gun holders are often overlooked – people like to ride with firearms in their laps or just shove them willy-nilly. This can be a bad idea, especially if you’ve got first-timers along. Gun holders are great for keeping your firearms safe and secure.

Gas engines can give you more power, and they still get great mileage. The trade-off is they’ll be a little noisier. Battery options are surprisingly quiet, even when you’re going at speed. There are very powerful battery options available. The customer will often be happier with their quietness on a hunt, even if they think they need gas. Being able to look at these options side by side is a crucial step toward personalizing a good hunting cart.

Headlights help you in low-light and bad-weather situations – don’t overlook these or you’ll have an unhappy customer coming back to you.

Flip-down rear seats let customers customize how they’ll use their cart for larger or smaller parties, or outings that require more gear.

One benefit of doing this from the only subscription service for dealers to customize golf carts is that subscription means constant updates and maintenance. You can buy an app that’s never updated, but that won’t help you when you have the call the customer and rework a deal – that’ll make them get cold feet. Subscription means customization-as-a-service: parts and availability are constantly updated and we get the latest golf cart parts up every week. That makes your job easier, both in knowing what you can offer and not having to go back and make the same deal twice.