The ifrothgolf review
Stewart Golf's flagship electric trolley. It does the usual remote-control thing, but its party trick is Follow mode: pop the handset in your pocket and the trolley tracks you down the fairway on its own, adjusting speed and direction so you can walk with nothing in your hands. It is designed, engineered and hand built in Britain.
What's great
It is built like a tank and genuinely stable on slopes and sidehill lies thanks to the retractable stabiliser and dual-bearing wheels. The remote connection is rock solid out to a long range, the battery monitoring through the app is handy, and on open fairways the Follow tech is borderline magic. Reviewers reckon a good one lasts five to ten years, which softens the sting of the price over time.
Worth knowing
It is expensive, and Follow mode is not true hands-free golf yet: it works beautifully on open fairways but gets confused around bunkers, trees and water, so plenty of owners end up using the remote most of the time. At around 14kg before the battery it is legitimately heavy to lift in and out of a car boot, you cannot push it manually (it only moves under power), and it can pop a little wheelie off the mark on an incline. Best owned if you can store it at the club.
The verdict
If you walk every round and have the budget, it is about as good as a follow trolley gets right now: superbly built, brilliantly stable and a joy on open courses. Just go in clear-eyed that Follow mode is a clever assistant rather than a full caddie replacement, and that it is a lump to haul around if you are boot-to-clubhouse every week.
