--- description: If I were to retire tomorrow, this would be one of my first purchases even though my financial advisor would threaten to quit if I bought it. title: Segway-like Rideable Golf Scooter Costs $4,500 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt3c09ec21d06622b2/698683c9cd804dddd2cc98d5/scooter.jpg?branch=production&width=1440&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Tech](/tag/time-section-tech/) ## Tech Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Get Here Faster, Retirement: This Is a Segway-like Rideable Golf Scooter by [Doug Aamoth](/author/doug-aamoth/) ## Doug Aamoth Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 4, 2014 10:45 AM CUT  Hammacher Schlemmer by [Doug Aamoth](/author/doug-aamoth/) ## Doug Aamoth Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 4, 2014 10:45 AM CUT You can’t see the man’s face in this photo, but he is weeping. He is weeping tears of joy – the salty, warm tears of joy that could only have been elicited by the feeling of riding around on the lovechild of a [Segway](http://www.segway.com/ "undefined") and a golf cart. The $4,500 [Ride On Golf Cart Scooter](http://www.hammacher.com/Product/Default.aspx?sku=84658 "undefined") has a dull name – I’d suggest Ultimate Freedom USA Golfglide 3000, but I’m not in marketing – and is good for 27 holes at up to 11 miles per hour. It’s rechargeable, with a full charge promised in five hours. It’s not the first rideable standing golf cart in the history of rideable standing golf carts — here’s [me getting frothed up about one](http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/02/mantys-is-part-motorized-scooter-part-golf-cart-and-a-pinch-of-segway/ "undefined") all the way back in 2010 — but the fact that it’s being sold by Hammacher Schlemmer is a step in the right direction for the entire category. There’s handlebar-mounted throttle and reverse controls, and the whole shebang is steered by leaning left or right. It can handle 20-degree inclines, which might be good for courses in Florida or other relatively flat areas, but things might get a little dicey on hillier tracks. There’s also a cupholder, and the entire apparatus folds down to a foot and a half thick so you can pop it in the back of your Dodge Neon when you’re done playing. If I were to retire tomorrow, this would be one of my first purchases even though my financial advisor would threaten to quit if I bought it. “It’ll pay for itself after a couple hundred rounds,” I’d keep saying to anyone who’d listen. 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