Golf clubs are an expensive item, and traveling with golf clubs can result in easy breakage of your clubs, or even loss of your clubs or the other contents of your bag by theft.

A regular golf bag is not secure and not made for anything other than for putting onto your golf buggy for a round, and a golf bag is not the ideal way to transport your clubs on, say, an international flight.

Baggage handlers these days can be extremely rough, if you've ever had a chance to see them in action you'll be surprised at how careless they are handling your baggage. Bags are thrown around wantonly and if this is your golf bag then there's good chance that the clubs can be scratched or damaged. They need to be packed better for air travel.

As any golf professional will tell you, you need a good golf travel case, otherwise called a golf travel bag. These are designed to withstand the rigours of travel and are also designed with security and protection for your golf clubs.

There are basically 2 types of golf travel cases. The soft travel case and the hard travel case. The soft travel cases are usually cheaper, and offer less protection, and are more useful for easy travel like a vacation in the car. They are, as the name suggests, made of a soft material but still should offer inner padding and much better protection for your golf clubs than just throwing your golf bag into the trunk.

Hard golf traveling cases are more expensive, but are designed to offer total protection and security for air travel, and are used exclusively by golf professionals. They are made of a solid material such as molded polyethylene and are virtually indestructible.

You put your golf bag inside and pack it all in well inside padding, and it is highly unlikely that your clubs are damaged even by the roughest handling.

Security would usually include locks to a high standard so light fingered handlers can't help themselves to your driver.

So if you travel, and love golf, and love to try out some of those international courses that you find when you're away overseas, invest in a good golf travel case. Your golf clubs will love you for it.