Turn Your Golf Cart from a Two-Seater to a Four-Seater in Less Than an Hour

Remember the days when the only time you saw an electric golf cart was on the golf course? You’d eye them with envy, because your high school golf coach forbade them. Lucky golfers not under the edicts of your coach (and on the weekends, the coach, too!) would make quick work of 18 holes as they sped from shot to shot, tee to green, and hole to hole on carts rented by the round.

If your family had their own golf cart, the only way to get it to the course and back was via a trailer hooked up to your car or truck. A select few golfers paid to store their carts in the course’s cart barn.

One thing you never, ever saw was a golf cart being driven down the street. That’s not the case anymore. These days, you’re nearly as likely to spot a golf cart at the grocery store as on the golf course.

Add Passenger Space to Your Golf Cart

As carts move off the golf course, they’re used for all kinds of short trips in a neighborhood. Limited passenger seating became an immediate challenge. Therefore, one of the most popular alterations people make to the original equipment on a golf cart is the addition of a rear seat. It’s pretty simple to make this modification to your own golf cart when you buy a DIY rear seat kit.

DIY with Golf Cart Rear Seat Kits

There are several rear seat kits on the market, but Madjax Genesis 150 was the first overwhelming favorite on the market. It has a variety of optional accessories, and comes with solid color seats or two-tone seats. No matter if you have a Club Car, Yamaha, or EZGO golf cart, this modification kit will work. All the rear seat kits also have the capability of flipping the seats over to morph into cargo hauling beds.

More recently, Madjax introduced their upgraded Genesis 250 and G300 versions, which dominate the top spots. Improvements include a folding footrest and grab bar, integrated cup holders in the arm rails, seat belt mounting brackets, an adjustable height backrest, reflective stickers, and a patented latch on the grab bar for ease of installation and removal of accessories.As with the original Genesis 150, rear seat kits fit Club Car, Yamaha, and EZGO carts.

How to Install a Genesis Rear Seat Kit at Home

Remove the golf cart canopy, front lean-back cushion, and rear struts from your golf cart and set them aside with all the original factory hardware. This is where your Genesis rear seat installation begins. Line up the parts in your new kit to be sure you have everything you need before you get started. The DIY kit comes with a horizontal seat back bracket, bag well bracket, two footrest brackets, two lean-back brackets, two rear strut brackets, two armrests, six hardware packets, a strap, a main seat frame, and a footrest, lean-back cushion, and seat bottom cushion.

Start with swapping out the two rear strut brackets with the new ones that come with the Genesis rear seat installation kit and drop them into place where you removed the original rear strut brackets. Attach the new rear strut brackets and reinstall the original struts you removed earlier. If you’re a visual person, there is a handy step-by-step video on YouTube that goes through these installation details for E-Z GO golf carts. Next, install the bag well bracket, then the main seat frame. Attach the horizontal seat back bracket and two armrests, followed by the footrest brackets and footrest. Add the lean-back brackets, lean-back cushion, and seat bottom cushion. Voila! The whole process shouldn’t take much more than an hour.

Madjax has made helpful DIY videos of Genesis 150 and 250 rear seat installation kits for Club Car and for rear seat kits for Yamaha golf carts, too.

Golf with Your Modified Cart

Now that you’ve added your Genesis rear seat kit to your golf cart, you have an additional two rear facing seats on your cart, and you’ve successfully converted it from a two-seater to a four-seater. If that isn’t awesome all by itself, the seat also folds out into a cargo bed. You’ve started down the addictive path of tricking out your golf cart. It only gets more interesting from here, and it only took you an hour.

But, wait. What about golfing? Now that you’ve converted your cart, there are no longer two accessible bag wells. No problem. You can add the detachable rear seat golf bag accessory in just a few minutes. Follow the simple instructions on YouTube, and it will be ready to go in a few minutes. The easy on/off accessory takes seconds to set up each time you golf. Other versions for the Genesis 250 and 300 golf bag accessory are available, too.