The best travel covers come in all shapes and sizes and cover a wide amount of price points. The Big Max Traveller sits somewhere towards the bottom of the price spectrum with the likes of the Sun Mountain Glider sitting well above it while something like the Macgregor VIP travel cover offering an even cheaper travel cover option. Earlier this year, we took the Big Max Traveler on a golf trip to Madeira to see how easy it was to travel with and how well it protected our clubs.
Weighing just 3.2kg, this is a great travel cover to use if you plan to use the most of your weight allowance on the flight. There is loads of room to put shoes or clothing next to your golf bag and the very well proportioned pockets on the outside can easily fit a pair of the best golf shoes in. There's also a neat pocket (which you can see in the red zip here) that is really useful for smaller objects like a padlock or an Apple AirTag which I like to travel with.
As well as being very well proportioned to travel with, the Traveler also comes with a unique padding system at the top of the bag. While many of you who have travelled with golf clubs before will know the ritual of stuffing clothes or towels at the top of the bag for extra protection for drivers and fairway woods, the Traveller negates the need for you to do this with its own integrated padding system. Situated at the top of the bag, it protects all sides of the tops of the clubs as your wrap it around. Coupled with the two straps integrated into the cover that allows you to strap your bag down, the Traveler really does a great job of protecting golf clubs on their travels.
My only concerns with the Traveler are the quality of materials. There's no denying the cover's ability to protect golf clubs in transit, but there were already a few tears to fabrics on the inside of the cover after only a couple of journeys through airports. With that in mind, I'd recommend those go on multiple golf trips every year go for something a little more substantial like the Sun Mountain Kube or Motocaddy Flightsafe to name two. However, if you're traveling with your clubs once or twice a year, the Big Max Traveler represents an excellent value travel cover that is lightweight, well proportioned and with ample protection for golf clubs. While the RRP is £150, I've seen it readily available online for much less than that and the £120 or so you should be able to pick it up for represents one of the best value travel covers available right now.
