The Best Golf Bag Just Got Even Better | Vessel Lux Cart II & Lux Pro Cart II Review

Vessel’s new Lux Cart II and Lux Pro Cart II golf bags have arrived, and they’re unreal.

In this Embers Golf review, Trevor and Tayte compare the latest generation of Vessel’s flagship cart bags to the original Lux Pro Cart (Gen 1) that Tayte has trusted for years.

We break down every detail — the materials, pockets, club organization, and new design improvements — to show why these are the best golf bags in our shop and why it’s nearly impossible for us to switch to anything else.
If you care about premium quality, tour-level organization, and looks that match performance, this review is for you.

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Our most popular selling golf bag, Vessel Pro Carts. Brand new versions of them. I haven’t seen them yet. I’m excited. Let’s get them opened up. Let’s talk golf bags. What happened to your face? Oh, I know what you’re thinking. I lost the uh the white. Is that could be it? Yeah. I forgot I didn’t have a beard till you just reminded me. Yeah. I mean, it’s like like I’m walking past your bedroom again and I’m 10 and you’re 19 and I’m like, “What the heck?” You’re playing Guitar Hero, pounded Mountain Dew. Yeah. Uh, Doritos. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Big Doritos guy. Cool. Ranch or nacho cheese? Horse spicy nacho. Wow. I’m used to dabble with a bunch of flavors. Now I’m just back to my roots. Nacho cheese. Nacho cheese. But you go to somebody’s house and it’s Sunday football and they’re bowl. I’ll eat the whole bowl. Brand new vessel bags in the building. We have our current gamer for myself. Let’s see what kind of upgrades we have in the box to this bag. We’re going to go over pricing, a full breakdown, what we like, what we don’t like, what we didn’t like about this one that’s improved. Let’s roll, brother. Okay, Navy. So, that should be um your bag. So, what which model is this? That is the Lux Cart bag right there. And what is your old one? The Lux Cart Pro Gen one. Is this the exact same? It’s the exact same bag. Now, this is the Pro. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Wait a second. Why is the only Pro model in your color? Well, let’s break them down. Maybe I’m going to like the regular one. Maybe the biggest telltale sign you can see in the brand new ones is these new magnet pouches on the top. Look at those luxury pouches. Trevor, you’re a big watch guy. You need a nice valuables pouch when you’re golfing. And what is You got a little extra guy here. What is that? Oh my gosh. I’m so excited. But if this is full, what are you fitting in here? A yardage book. No, maybe not. So, this is like versus what you got going. Yes. So, this was the old pro. This is Mach 1. This is the Lux Cart XV, I think is what it used to be called. Okay. Right. Yeah. With the organizer. For the audience at home, walk me through the two the 2.0 bag. What’s different about them? And then what are the actual upgrades you get for the money with the Pro? Yeah. So your your your cart bag here. I love the branding. This is the same as the other bag, but look at this. That steel vessel there. The magnet pouches that you have on this really good. This one’s nice and deep. And that rangefinder goes a little bit back. The nice thing I like about this compared to mine, too, is if you look, mine has that pocket right here that goes down. That’s not very functional. And then the Well, the problem is if you overpack that pouch, then your magnet pouch gets ballooned out. Oh, yeah. So, this has you you have so much more dedicated space right here without having that pouch on top. Huge ball pouch if you want it. You have your two valuable pouches on the sides. You got a little hidden pouch inside of your big pouch. Mhm. That’s where my Well, I can’t say, but that’s where I keep stuff in my hidden pouch. Your hidden items. Yep. What are you hiding on the golf course? It depends. If like there’s a caddy service and stuff. Oh, like cashoe. Could be. This one has the waterproof liner. Mhm. Mhm. So, if you want to do want to throw drinks and stuff in there, you do. Okay. And so, what do we get to the pro? We get the two two bat wings. We just call those bat wings. Two magnet bat wings. Now, this this is nice. Like really simple, quick stuff like cart 2 is 9.3 lb. Okay. The pro cart Mhm. which is mine is 8.4 lb. So, you went up up almost a pound between these two. Okay. And the Lux Cart 2 is 8.3 lb. So, you get almost a full pound difference between these two. I’ll be honest, though, these although are nice, I don’t know. I use those a ton. And can I tell you something? Aesthetically, I don’t know if I like the busyiness of this little double pouch. You I love it. The busy. I think it’s a little busy. Well, that’s the thing. This one you won’t use this a ton. This is going to be the one that you use for but aesthetically just the lines. I almost prefer the cleaner look of this one. What about you? I kind of like the clean look. I kind of like this one. Maybe I’m just talking myself into this one since this is mine anyway. Maybe right here, this just looks like an ordinary vessel tag, but in the back it is got a slot. So when you’re flying with your bags, all of that stuff for travel, you can slide an air tag right in that little pocket there. On the new Pro model, you not only have this little airtake pocket we mentioned on the other bag up in here, but if you look in here in this Velcro, you have your keys that you can hook on, but also this probably could be used for an air tag. It could be used for a wedding ring. All of that stuff. Another little hidden valuables pouch. Same thing on this side. Another little hidden pouch. This is the kind of bag that you have for a year and you’re still finding little hidden compartments on like and you’re like, “Oh, let me clean out my golf bag.” You’re like, “Oh, I forgot I even had this spot.” I love it. This thing is going to get used and abused. I have a tea time tomorrow. Should start loading it up, huh? Trev, you got a new shirt on. Where can we pick that up? So, I have our just can’t hit him today shirt uh that we had designed. So, we got this in two different colors. Tate is wearing I’m a toe guy. This is also in two different colors. More of a retro vibe. These are sayings that we’ve come up with in in the YouTube channel. Oh, they both happen to be your sayings. Yep. And then we have our embers melon hats. If you want your ember swag, hit us up. We’ll be coming on the website soon as well. So, talk to me about on the originals. What do what do we like about the original? What makes why is Vessels our most popular selling bag? Talk me through that. The number one reason I liked this bag, one is quality. The feel and look of this bag is second to none. Yeah. And two, the amount of storage and pockets you had here. That kind of flipped for me as a con. That’s my chapstick. You don’t want to get your lips sunburnt. Trust me. Yeah, you got multiple chapsticks in there. There are so many pockets on this thing. This bad boy could get heavy. It could get real heavy. Vessel, what else we like is these these separators go all the way down to the bottom so the grips don’t catch. You can do the club organizer if you want. I use the club organizer for a while. I’m cooling off on it a little bit. But you still like it, don’t you, T? I love it. Yeah. Yeah. But I’m kind of OCD with where my clubs go. And it does help them from getting dinged up if you got like soft forged irons. Yeah, that’s definitely helpful. Okay, so it’s the same club organizer. That’s good to know. Yep. And then all the interior pockets and everything are all velvet lined. I’m not seeing a reinvention of the wheel here, just more some refinements, like a revision. Yeah, this the regular one is pretty similar to the old Pro. You got the divider. I personally use this all the time for my rangefinder. My rangefinder goes right in there. Yep. Got our two water bottle holders, golf ball holder, pen holder. I’m not seeing a whole lot different now. This pocket’s gone away even on the standard ones and the Pro, right? Yes. So, the biggest benefit on the Pro is you get this little extra guy. Man, that doesn’t do much for me. And real quick, before you jump too deep into this one, between these two bags, the one on your left hand is 469. Okay. The one on the right is $479. So, it’s only a $10 difference between the two. But you think this one’s going to go away, right? I would imagine they’re obsolete with this big dog coming into the picture. My biggest pet peeve with manufacturers and when we got too many products going on, what does that do? It’s to me it stops people. I I don’t want to answer the question that I already asked. I didn’t even let you answer it. It confuses the consumer which halts sales. Sales. It makes them think about it too much. makes you overthink because you’ve given too many options. Vessel, no doubt, undoubtedly is a victim of too many models. Yeah, way too many. The Sunday 3 bag. Yes, that’s what I was thinking of. You got the cart bags, you have the cart 2.0, you have the Lux cart, you have the Luxe Pro 2.0 cart. It’s like, what are we doing? What are we doing? It’s a lot of skews. If I’m confused when I’m trying to figure out how to review a product, we got problems. This is all the same card sleeve. I never really was big on the cart sleeve myself. Oh, I know. Tate uses it religiously. Did you see a difference? My bag is nice. I mean, this bag has been used and abused for two full years. This bad boy has been in the truck, out of the truck. You can see it went to Prairie Club in Nebraska, the planes, so it’s covered in dust and dirt. But a quick wipe down of a rag, this bag is going to look fantastic. There’s no wears, no chafing. I keep this just in the shop now cuz I actually switch bags. But this is the white. This was the master’s edition and it held up really nice. I mean, I keep all the slots wide open. This is one of my favorite things about Vessel is all of these special edition colorways they come out with. I didn’t get any wearing though from not using that sleeve. So, I think the sleeves overrated personally. This is game changer for me. I know I’ve already talked about this. The what do you call this? The bat wings. Yeah. These pockets are I’m super excited about these pockets. Already a great bag. Looks like they just made some small improvements to it. Well, if you look at it’s the same size bag, right? So, it’s the same size. What are you sacrificing by going to the big one? Is it too big compared to this one? Or is there a reason to buy this one or just price? These look identical. What about these two? So, the top is the same. This one is definitely deeper, little beefier. Yeah. So, I guess if you wanted something more compact, you go with this one. And then the only other reason to go with this one would be budget, right? Save some money. And there’s no doubt Vessel is becoming the industry standard. You’re seeing them make a lot of private label bags for other brands. And they make a lot of the staff bags. Sunday Red For the tour guys, the tour guys staff bags like that big beautiful Mirror bag up there. That’s a Vessel bag. Yeah. Mirror bags. Sunday Red. I’m probably forgetting a few brands, but you know what else for everyone with with Vessel making the quality product that they are, everybody else is having to raise. What are you doing? High fives. I was about to I was about to get into my Yeah, but you’re just talking like my gestures. They elevated the entire process. So, all these other brands are having to elevate Mhm. their quality to match this because this is what people are after. Looks different. You think so? The inside material. Oh, yeah. Look at that. I didn’t even notice that. Oh, it’s definitely different. This is like more velvet lined. What would you call that? Like a waffle material. A waffle. It’s like a mesh thing. It’s It’s cheap junk is what it is. This is silk velvety, I think. This is Yeah, that’s the silk velvet. Is that Do you put those two words together? That’s nicer. Let’s count magnet pouches. One, two, three, four. Four magnet pouches as opposed to one, two. So, you have two additional magnet pouches. Guys, magnet pouches are game changer to get in and out of, to seal your stuff up. I love magnet pouches. I’m gonna have to see if my panel can come off of this, my Ember’s golf panel, and stick onto this bad boy. My only complaint with the cart bags is even though they’re the most functional for a cart is you always and you can’t, if you got the club organizer on, it’s hard to grab right here, but you always have to carry it like this. Always. You can’t just grab it by the handle. The Player Five, what I love about it is it goes in and out of the car a lot easier. And it’s just got the one handle. I can just grab it. Yeah. You can’t just grab it by No. Oh my gosh. That went all the way to the bottom. What was that? What was that? Was that my chapstick? One of your ball markers. I don’t even hear it. Oh. Oh, that’s a whole bunch of them. Oh, is this what went in there? Yeah. Well, that’s my Dude, that’s my Cray Golf Society from Scotland. Yeah, I think that’s the handle, bro. Brother. Yeah, you’re right. I’m partial to the stand bag. That’s just me, though. Do you like a cart bag or a stand bag? What about you? car pack. But, you know, when I take the boys out just for nine holes after work, I do move it into my pencil bag. Why? Get in and out of the car with a kid. Taking two kids out of a car seat. Yeah. What about you, Alex? I like standags. Stand back. Yeah. Range session’s big. That’s true. Like, so like where we play sometimes you have to walk 80 yards to get to the hitting bay, depending on how far up the range is. You’re not taking this whole bag off the off the cart. Let us know if you guys want to see the player the player five stand bag is their nicest bag, right? Yeah. Stand bag. Stand bag versus their nicest cart bag. We should do a versus. Great idea. Final thoughts, Trev. Vessel bags. They’ve already made improvements on what is a fantastic product, probably the best bag in our golf shop. Um, again, minor improvements, but there really wasn’t much to improve in their defense. Correct. Um, I kind of like that they came I’m talking on both sides of my mouth because I want less SKUs, but I kind of like that they came out with a little bit more affordable option. Um, but you know what? It’s like we said earlier, eventually this will be gone. I would imagine. That’s true. I can’t imagine they’re going to massproduce continue to produce both of these. So, I think in the cart lineup, cart bag lineup, I would imagine you’re just going to have these two guys. Yep, I agree. Otherwise, they would have named it something else instead of 2.0. So, there’s the Vessel’s new bags. If you already have the first one, would you spend the money and upgrade? I would give it some time. Yeah, I would give it unless you just love the Pro or you beat yours up so much. But here’s why I would. If you have this bag, you love this bag, you abuse this bag, I would wait until you see a color way you just can’t live without. That’s true. There’s no point in upgrading for the exact same color and everything. If if your bag is pretty new, if you’ve already been abusing this for a few years, it might be time for the upgrade. Yeah, but let’s say they drop this in the M’s color again. Let’s say they come out with a cool open colorway this year. Yeah, that might be the time to upgrade. Yep. All right, see you guys next