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Eager is new owner of two local businesses
Golf Cart Whisperer is not
exactly a title that Cody Eager
would chose for himself, but it
fits well. He simply has a knack
for understanding golf carts
and their motors that even he
cannot explain.
This year life has certainly
gotten quite interesting for
Eager. Back in 2007 when he
graduated from Madelia High
School, if you had told him that
in January of 2019 he would
buy a golf cart business and a
motor shop, plus be sworn in
as a member of the Madelia
City Council he would not have
believed it. But, that is exactly
how Eager’s year began and
so far he is really loving it. He
named his new businesses
Minnesota Golf Carts and Eager
Electric Motor Company; be-
coming a councilman is some-
thing that he has been wanting
to do for a few years. It was
never his plan to do all that
at once, he wanted to be sure
he could commit the time and
energy they deserve to each of
those things.
Over the years, Eager has
worked construction, in truck-
ing, and for Arlen and Matt
Maloney since 2011. Maloney’s
have a towing company, but
also owned a golf cart busi-
ness. That is when Eager dis-
covered his gift of understand-
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ing golf carts, knowing when
something is wrong with them
and how to fix it, plus an affin-
ity for and enjoyment of the
business of selling them. “At
first I was not very interested in
the cart side of the business,”
Eager said. “Then it progressed
more and more and I got really
passionate about the golf cart
business; it got to where peo-
ple would call and ask for me.
Maloney’s did a good job of
letting me do my thing and I
learned a lot that way; I got to
make a lot of decisions and
they made me feel like it was
my own. Believe me, I never
thought I’d be interested in
working for, much less owning,
a golf cart shop.” Eager had
been managing the golf cart
business for about five years,
so buying it was a natural suc-
cession. “One day, we talked
about it and a couple weeks
later we were drawing up pa-
pers for Maloney’s to sell it to
me,” Eager said. “It
worked out really
well. And it hap-
pened faster than
I thought.”
Eager cannot even
place his finger
on exactly what
it is that speaks
to him so much
about the golf
carts; people think
golf carts are so simple, but the
motors can be complex. “It is
just something that clicked with
me and I went with it,” Eager
said. “They are their own motor
you cannot compare golf cart
motors to some other motor
because they are unique.”
Just by looking at a cart, hear-
ing it live or over the phone or
people explaining him what is
happening, Eager can usually
tell what is wrong. But, he has a
sophisticated computer sys-
tem that tells him exactly what
is wrong so, even though his
instincts tell him what the trou-
ble is, the computer takes any
guess work out of it. He would
take no chances on making
sure he is giving his customers
100 percent satisfaction.
CONTACT
www.minnesotagolfcarts.com
507-642-3100