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Club travel covers exist for one hostile environment: a conveyor, a baggage belt and a handler who does not know what is inside. The product is judged entirely on whether the driver head survives. That makes padding distribution, the top protection collar and the wheel mount the three decisions that matter, and it makes fabric denier the least interesting line on the spec.

Specification options for custom club travel covers

The grid below is the reference we quote against. Note the internal dimensions against the top protection row: the cover has to clear a 48 inch driver while leaving enough padding over the crown of the bag, and those two requirements pull against each other.

How a club travel cover is built

The body is a long tapered tube with a flat base panel, and the crown is where the padding budget goes. Padding is cut as a shaped collar that wraps the top 25 to 30 cm, laminated to the shell rather than floated inside it, because a floating pad migrates and leaves the crown unprotected after a few trips.

On a hard-top hybrid, the moulded dome sits over that collar and is fixed to an internal ring. The dome does not carry the load directly — the ring does — and the ring ties into the base through the stiffener board. That load path is what stops an impact at the crown from pushing the dome into the club heads.

Internal compression straps are anchored to the stiffener board, not to the shell. Their job is to stop the bag sliding down inside the cover, and a strap anchored into fabric alone will tear out under the inertia of a loaded bag hitting a belt end-stop.

Wheels are mounted on a riveted plate backed by a moulded or plywood stiffener inside the base. Inline skate wheels are standard because they roll on carpet and tarmac; cheap plastic wheels deform under a 15 kg load within one trip. On premium builds the housing is moulded and the bearings are sealed, since grit is what kills the alternatives.

The drag handle carries the whole product when it is wheeled, so it is anchored through the stiffener board with a webbing loop that runs the full height of the base panel. A handle anchored at one point only will peel away from the shell.

Cost drivers and MOQ for travel covers

Padding volume is the largest single material driver, and it scales with every centimetre of body length. Second is the top protection method: a moulded ABS dome carries tooling at USD 300–2,500 plus a component cost, while a padded collar costs labour only. Third is the wheel set.

Fourth is fabric denier and coating, and fifth is the hardware set on premium builds — lockable sliders, sealed bearings and a moulded grip each add a bought-in component with its own lead time. Confirming those lead times is part of the quote, because they frequently exceed the assembly window.

Opening quantities are 500 units per style per colour, reducing to 300 on repeats once tooling and markers exist. Sampling takes 6–10 working days on stock fabric and 12–15 where a moulded dome, a wheel housing or an internal cradle is involved, with sample fees of USD 50–150 credited against the first bulk order. Terms are T/T 30/70 against FOB Xiamen, with EXW, CIF and DDP offered under Incoterms 2020, and pricing is returned within 24–48 hours. Transit is 25–35 days by sea, 5–8 by air and 3–5 by courier. These are bulky items: cube planning uses 28 CBM per 20GP, 56 CBM per 40GP and 68 CBM per 40HQ.

Quality gates and acceptance criteria

Final inspection runs to AQL 2.5 under ISO 2859-1, with Critical 0, Major 2.5 and Minor 4.0, and AQL 1.5 available on request. Reports are issued from our 4,950 m² SGS-verified production floor before loading, and reorders are reported in the same format so one shipment can be compared with the last.

For a protective product the functional tests are impact, transit simulation and wheel endurance. An appearance pass tells you nothing about whether a driver head survives a conveyor, which is why the tests below are run at sample stage as well as at final inspection.

Airline handling, transit testing and damage claims

Damage claims in this category are almost always concentrated at the crown and at the base wheels, and they are frequently caused by packing rather than by the bag. A cover packed with club heads at the top of the bag, rather than distributed, concentrates the impact at exactly the point the padding is designed for. We supply an internal packing recommendation with the sample.

ISTA 3A is a carton-level test and it has to be run with the production carton, the production packing material and the production packing method. Running it with a substitute carton produces a pass that does not survive contact with an airline.

Ordering path for travel cover programmes

The six steps below take a travel cover from brief to shipment, with first programmes typically at 12–16 weeks. Luggage-format options are set out under custom travel bags, and certification detail sits on bag quality and certification.