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A golf cart, known also as a golf car, is a small four-wheeled electric- or gas-powered vehicle designed originally to carry two golfers and their clubs, bags, and attendant accessories around a golf course; as a replacement for walking, riding in a golf cart permits players to traverse a golf course more quickly and with less physical exertion. Carts designed principally for golf-related uses are most often four feet wide, eight feet long, and six feet high and weigh between 900 and 1000 pounds. The use of carts is proscribed on most major men's and women's professional golf tours, although the Champions Tour allows carts in many events, and is restricted to non-disruptive purposes under the principles of golf etiquette. American Casey Martin, afflicted in his right leg with Klippel Trenaunay syndrome, a degenerative birth defect, sued the PGA Tour to win the right to use a cart on course; his case eventually reached the United States Supreme Court, where he prevailed. In many small communities, golf carts serve as neighborhood electric vehicles and are specially designed for non-golf usage; prominent manufacturers of the latter include Ingersoll Rand's Club Car division and Lamborghini (fabrication pictured).
