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Carousel or oversized baggage? Tips to find your golf bag at the airport

Have a tee time ready? Better hurry up and obtain that vacation bag.

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Welcome to Road Procedures, a GOLF.com series in which we choose the brains of specialist golf tourists, ranging from experienced golfers and caddies to globetrotting course raters and lecturers. We’ll unlock their will have to-have vacation things, go-to airline strategies and a lot more to tell you for your future golf excursion.

Just about every golfer who has ever traveled with their clubs has felt the stomach-turning combine of excitement and worry: you touch down at your desired destination, giddy for your vacation but concerned about the whereabouts of your golfing bag.

Did it make it? And, assuming that it did, will it exhibit up on the carousel, or at the outsized baggage fall?

You simply cannot be in two areas at as soon as, and you never want your treasured sticks to sit unattended. In the grand scheme of items, this is what is identified as a privileged dilemma. But that doesn’t make it any much less true.

The Twitter account @TheParTrain recently broached this topic, and we figured it was truly worth examining out. Mainly because you know what? It is a excellent dilemma.

The very first detail to know is that there is no hard-set rule. Different airports have various capacities and protocols. But at most important airports in the U.S., likelihood are your golf equipment will go to outsized baggage. At more compact, regional airports, the odds are bigger that they’ll appear on the baggage carousel. Lots of of these services, like the airport in North Bend, Ore., which serves Bandon Dunes, do not even have oversize bag drops.

Something very similar is legitimate in the United Kingdom and Eire, the place oversize drops are a lot more the exception than the rule. Your clubs will very likely appear out on the normal carousel.

No matter where by you’re touring, if you have any baggage-drop uncertainties, request an airport attendant exactly where you ought to be waiting around. We assurance they’ve fielded this query ahead of. They’ll have an reply.

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And if you cannot obtain an attendant? Draw upon your keen powers of observation. Go to the baggage carousel initially and see what form of baggage are coming out. Are you observing baby strollers, surfboards and other oversize products? If not, you are in all probability standing in the wrong position.

And if all of this uncertainty is far too a great deal for your frayed nerves? You may turn to technological guidance. The sector is stuffed with reasonably priced, mini-monitoring equipment, which includes AirTag, Tile and Chipolo, that can be connected simply to your golfing bag, making it possible for you to monitor them, authentic-time, on your cell phone.

Of training course, your tracking machine may possibly inform you that your sticks have long gone to the improper town. That is when a total new experience commences.

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A golfing, meals and journey writer, Josh Sens has been a Golf Magazine contributor considering that 2004 and now contributes across all of GOLF’s platforms. His function has been anthologized in The Best American Sportswriting. He is also the co-author, with Sammy Hagar, of Are We Acquiring Any Pleasurable However: the Cooking and Partying Handbook.