NBC Sports
8 July 2013
By Jason Sobel

Be like Bubba: Ohio course to use hovercraft carts

You may never be able to drive a golf ball like Bubba Watson, but now you can drive a hovercraft golf cart around the course just like him.

Earlier this year, Watson released a viral video showing him cruising the course in what he called a BubbaCraft, even taking the vehicle directly through water hazards.

The one-of-a-kind item is no longer one-of-a-kind, as Windy Knoll Golf Club in Springfield, Ohio, will become the first course in the United States to have two hovercraft carts available for public use.

“We wanted to be able to offer something no other course could,” said Pete Duffey, the course's managing director. “A way to further put Windy Knoll Golf Club on the map of public destination golf courses. It was an easy decision. When we saw them on YouTube, we said ‘We gotta have those!’”

Each hovercraft is made by Neoteric Hovercraft and will be similar to those used by the U.S. Air Force and at Disney World.