Gozo Golf Caddy Review: I Think I Just Found My Favorite Electric Push Cart

I bought an MGI. With my own money. After reviewing it, I liked it enough that when the rep emailed asking when I’d be shipping the demo unit back, I asked him who I needed to talk to about buying one instead.

I tell you that so you understand the weight of what I’m about to say.

The Gozo Auto-Follow Golf Caddy might be my favorite electric caddie I’ve tested.

Not the MGI I paid for. Or the other one from that brand that I reviewed. Or the follow-me cart from Navee that I also reviewed and really like. This one. A cart from a brand I’d never heard of, that costs less than the carts I already owned and loved, that I came into fully expecting to nitpick.

This Gozo cart made a serious impression on me. And it did so in a category where I’m about as hard to sell as they come.

This is my fourth electric caddie review for Breaking Eighty, so I’ve got some perspective and a garage that’s getting crowded. Let me walk you through how a cart I really didn’t expect much from worked its way to the top of my list.

Let’s Start With the Price

$1,399.

That’s the Gozo. A cart that follows you around the course, hands-free, for $1,399.

The other follow carts I’ve spent time with start at $1,699 and run past three grand for the Stewart Q-Follow. In fact, the Gozo price undercuts carts that don’t follow you at all.

So right away, the price got my attention. Which naturally led to some skepticism. You don’t usually get the marquee feature and the low price.

I went looking for what gives. And I gotta say, mostly I didn’t find it. Keep reading.

Love at First Sight

Of all things, the packaging with this Gozo cart made a strong first impression. Ten-some layers of precisely cut padding, everything seated so snugly that nothing shifted even a bit in transit. It’s a small thing, but also exactly the kind of small thing that tells you a company cares about the details.

Then there’s the assembly.  Or the lack of it.

Easiest setup I’ve encountered in this category, and it’s not even close.

With the MGI carts, you slide on four wheels and install a fifth stabilizing wheel. Pretty much the same thing with the Navee Birdie 3X.

With the Gozo? Nothing. The mainframe shows up fully built. No wheels to attach. No fifth wheel to mess with, because there isn’t one. Charge the battery, clip on the accessories if you want, and go play. I mean, it really could not be any simpler.

Unfolding and folding the cart is likewise simple. There’s a latch to fold the handle, and the pull of a pin to collapse the mainframe. That’s the whole process.

And when you fold the Gozo cart, the rear wheels tuck themselves in toward the frame automatically. No inverting wheels to make it more narrow like with the MGI carts. This one just gets narrow on its own. In fact, as I’ll talk about in just a minute, it gets even more narrow than any electric caddie I’ve tested.

Then there’s the build quality of this thing. It’s a totally solid metal frame with no flex or rattle. Even the cup holder is metal instead of the flimsy plastic that carts usually come with.

Plus, I just think this Gozo cart looks cool. All-black frame with pops of yellow and gold throughout. Clean.

I did have one out-of-the-box issue. The phone holder that ships with the cart was cracked and not usable. Not a huge deal for me as I’m perfectly fine to keep my phone in my bag. And getting a replacement shouldn’t be a big deal.

How the Gozo Compares by Size and Weight

Electric caddies are heavy. And bulky. That’s just the deal and the tradeoff for enjoying this kind of luxury.

With the battery, the Gozo is right around 36 pounds. That puts it right in line with the Navee at 38 pounds and the MGI Zip Navigator AT at 37.

The battery alone is a good 10 pounds, and the way this cart is designed, you have to pull the battery for the cart to fully fold. So, once you pull that out, it’s actually a pretty manageable lift in or out of a car trunk.

I measured all three of the electric carts I have folded, and came up with:

• MGI Zip Navigator AT: 23 5/16″ wide (with the rear wheels inverted) x 28″ long
• Navee Birdie 3X: 22 3/16″ wide x 21.5″ long
• Gozo Auto-Follow: 21″ wide x 29.5″ long

So, the Gozo is the narrowest of the three but also the longest. Honestly, they’re all pretty close and take up about the same amount of storage space.

Three Ways to Drive It

Before I get into stuff like what type of golf bag is compatible and the associated app experience, let’s talk about what it’s actually like to navigate this thing around a golf course.

The Gozo runs in three modes: manual and assisted push, by remote control, or follow-me. The controls click into place fast once you find the rhythm.

Push down the dial on the console for a couple of seconds to wake it up, and it always powers on locked. One tap unlocks it to roll free. A double tap drops you into assisted push. The remote handles the rest.

Manual and assisted push. Unlocked, the Gozo pushes like any cart, which can come in handy when you’re in a parking lot or trying to work around really tight spaces, or if you ever run out of battery.

By the way, the battery is rated for a full 36 holes before recharging is needed. Additionally, the remote control is USB-C rechargeable.

In assisted push, you set a speed using the dial on the console, and your speed setting pops up on the built-in screen just above the dial. After that, the cart powers itself along while you walk behind it. Basically, like a self-propelled lawnmower.

I’ll give the Navee its due here. That cart’s handle is still my favorite manual control because it’s got twin triggers built right into the grip that you squeeze to make the cart go.

The Gozo’s assisted push is fine, but kicking it on means turning a dial rather than just grabbing the handle.

One small quirk: On the console dial, you turn it counterclockwise to increase the speed and clockwise to lower the speed. Feels backwards to me.

The remote. The remote is a single joystick dial. Push it where you want the cart to go. Forward, back, left, right. It’s a different animal from the four-arrow pads on the MGI and Navee remotes, and I came around to it quickly. It’s very smooth to operate, and you can tune the steering sensitivity in the app to suit you.

You can also kick the Gozo into cruise control. You nudge the joystick forward twice and the cart holds its speed and its line until you steer or stop it via the remote.

That remote-driven, set-the-speed-and-let-it-ride-out-front approach has for a couple of years now been my preferred way to run any electric caddie.

Which brings me to the feature I came in fully expecting to wave off.

The Auto-Follow Feature: Consider Me Converted

I came into this as someone who kind of looked at follow-me features on most electric push carts as almost like a gimmick.

I’ve just never bought it. I tried it on the Navee and drifted right back to the remote. My take on auto-follow was that it just wasn’t as practical as it was made out to be. Without geo-fencing where the cart would know the areas to avoid, it just felt like too much babysitting to be worth it. Why not just stick with the remote?

Well, using the Gozo cart has changed my mind. I think it’s because the feature works so seamlessly. You click the little dog icon on the remote, you put the remote in your back pocket (or you can clip it to your belt, and they do include the clip), and then you just walk, and the cart follows you. It worked every single time, and in my experience, it worked perfectly.

Gozo claims that the UWB tracking tech they use for the cart to follow the remote control is the secret sauce.

In wide-open space, there’s just no less cumbersome way to walk a golf course than with auto-follow. You don’t steer. You don’t touch a thing. Your bag just trails you down the fairway. It’s exactly like playing with a caddie.

Now, it’s still not entirely hands-off. When you reach your ball, the cart stops behind you. You can set the distance from which it trails you and stops in the app. I had mine set to stop a few feet behind me. But that means that when you want to grab your club, you have to walk back to the cart.  So I just pull out the remote at that point and nudge it up those few feet until it’s next to me. So that’s not totally hands-free, but it really is extremely close.

Of course, you also have to use the remote once you get to the green. Because there’s no geo-fencing, the cart has no idea where the greens and hazards are. So again, auto-follow doesn’t mean you don’t ever touch the remote.

Still, this is now my favorite way to walk. It’s absolute luxury.

And the cart follows very reliably. Even when I walk through areas with trees, unless the trees are so close together that you can’t comfortably walk between them, the cart will follow your path and avoid any collisions. It’s pretty awesome.

So, yeah, I didn’t think the auto-follow part of this cart, which is of course what’s supposed to be the main feature, was going to really do it for me. I was totally wrong. I’m now completely all-in on this way of operating.

Will It Work With the Bag You Already Own?

More good news.

The problem with a lot of electric caddies is that they are only compatible with cart bags. You’re already spending a lot of money on an electric push cart. The last thing you want is to also need to buy a new cart bag if you don’t already own one.

When I reviewed the MGI Navigator AT and Ai Navigator GPS+, using a stand bag was a headache. It kind of worked, but not very securely and not without a lot of constant maintenance.

So I tested the Gozo using Sunday Golf’s new Ryder Lefty bag, which is actually a fairly narrow stand bag.

And it worked just fine. There’s a little fussing to get a stand bag aligned, since the legs keep it from sitting quite as flat as a dedicated cart bag would. But once I cinched down the straps, it stayed put. I’d say I’d have to mildly re-adjust maybe once every six holes, depending on terrain. And I’m just talking about a slight repositioning; nothing super critical.

A cart bag is still the ideal solution. For one thing, because there’s no on-board storage on this Gozo cart, a cart bag affords you all that extra space. But it is also the best and most natural fit.

But, if all you’ve got is a stand or carry bag, the Gozo can still be an option for you.

Gozo Electric Cart Stability With no Fifth Wheel

This is one of the biggest differences from every other electric caddie I’ve used. Every other model leans on a fifth wheel for stability on steep or sidehill terrain.

I once failed to fully lock it in place the first time I used the Zip Navigator AT, and my cart ended up flipped upside down with the wheels spinning and my buddy laughing at me. Basically, the fifth wheel is critical to the cart staying upright.

But the Gozo doesn’t have one at all. Instead, it has a wide rear wheelbase, a lower center of gravity, and balanced weight distribution that keeps the cart planted.

And I’m telling you, it works flawlessly. I tested it on the steep uphills, downhills, and sidehills, and I didn’t have a single fail.

It’s also got an auto-braking system so that the cart won’t run away on steep downhills.

I will say that the Zip Navigator AT is the best electric cart I’ve used at maintaining its straight line on sidehills. With the Gozo, I did need to nudge the remote more in whatever direction when I was using the remote. But in auto-follow mode, it follows along regardless.

The Gozo App

There’s a companion app with the cart. You can use it to actually drive in lieu of the remote control, but I honestly can’t figure out why you’d want to do that unless you lost the remote.

But what is cool about the app is that it lets you fine-tune all of the settings on the cart. The follow distance, steering sensitivity, cruise speed, miles or metric. It all lives in the app, and I think it’s cool that it gives you so many opportunities to dial everything to your own customized specs.

My One Real Gripe

I really wish this cart had some kind of storage. A small pouch, a clip for the remote, a pocket for a rangefinder, just something. But there’s none of that.

The nowhere-to-stash-the-remote thing is particularly annoying. I feel like it’s only a matter of time before I lose it.

This is one spot where the MGI carts flat-out do it better. The MGI tucks its remote into a discreet little clip. On the Zip Navigator, it’s hidden so well under the handle that on day one, I was convinced they’d forgotten to include one at all. I wish there was a similar solution on this Gozo cart.

So, Is the Gozo Auto-Follow My Favorite Electric Push Cart?

To me, the Gozo sets a new standard. And the fact that it’s the least expensive of the carts I’ve tried makes it, to me, a very easy recommendation.

The fact that it comes assembled and that the fold/unfold exercise is easy. The fact that it’s narrower than other carts and potentially easier to store. The overall build quality. That there’s no fifth wheel to have to fold and unfold or remove and re-attach. That the follow-me feature is so good that I’m now fully converted on that feature. This thing is just impressive.

And again, for less money. That’s what’s wild.

The Navee Birdie 3X still has a better manual handle if hands-on operation is your priority.

And there’s a real case for MGI that has nothing to do with any single feature. They’re the established, proven name with a track record that Gozo can’t claim yet. If buying from a proven manufacturer matters to you, that’s a fair reason to lean MGI.

But the Gozo is the real deal. And for a lot of reasons combined, it’s my new favorite.

My new favorite electric caddie, and the least expensive one I've tested.

9.6 Fantastic

The Gozo Auto-Follow Golf Caddy does almost everything right and does it for less money than any electric caddie I've tested. It arrives essentially assembled, folds down narrow without any issues, holds a stand bag, and stays planted on all terrain without a fifth wheel. Best of all, its auto-follow is so seamless it converted a longtime skeptic.

The Good

1. Arrives fully assembled
2. Excellent build quality and a clean look
3. Narrowest folded width of any electric cart I've tested
4. Auto-follow feature a joy to use
5. Stable on all terrain with no fifth wheel
6. Least expensive electric caddie I've tested

The Bad

1. No onboard storage and nowhere to stash the remote
2. Assisted push isn't as intuitive as the Navee's trigger handle

• Presentation 9.5
• Performance 9.5
• Price 10
• Personal Affinity 9.5