Traveling with golf clubs? Don’t take this unnecessary risk

Travel By: Shaun Tolson May 1, 2026 Packing your golf clubs for the airplane? Don’t forget to keep your clubs safe with this often-forgotten item. Getty Images At the start of a media trip only a few years into my career as a traveling golf journalist, I was hanging out with a few veteran golf writers by one of the baggage claim carousels inside Missouri’s Springfield-Branson National Airport, waiting for everyone’s clubs to arrive. When details of my sticks came up in conversation, I opened my travel bag to pull out an iron. That’s when one of the more experienced…