Definition: "Cart jockey" is a term applied to certain members of a golf course's staff whose job it is to look after the course's fleet of golf carts, including assisting customers with cart service.
A cart jockey is much more likely to be encountered at a more upscale course than at, for example, a municipal golf course.
A cart jockey's duties may include any or all of the following:
- Driving a golf cart out to the parking lot to greet arriving golfers;
- Offering to assist those golfers in removing golf bags from their car and placing them onto the golf cart;
- Ferrying the golfers and their bags from the parking lot to the clubhouse;
- Greeting those golfers again at the conclusion of the round;
- Giving those golfers' clubs a quick wipe-down;
- Removing the golf bags from the cart; or driving the golfers back to the parking lot and then removing the bags from the cart;
- Cleaning up the empty golf cart and returning it to the course's cart barn (or cart storage area).
Common Misspellings: Cart jocky
