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ASSOCIATES GOLF CAR EXPANDING TO NEW SITE
The best golf car company in the Hudson Valley
is on the move.
After 26 years at its location on Taft Ave. in
Poughkeepsie, Associates Golf Car is in the midst
of expanding to a space on Route 9 in Hyde
Park that will quadruple its current size to 4,800
square feet.
“It’s time,” says Ann-Marie Kania, who owns the
company with her family. “We actually have
owned the property in Hyde Park since 2002, and
this was always our intention.”
Associates Golf Car has the most extensive selec-
tion in the area, doing business with numerous
golf courses, high schools, colleges, and even
private clients. And it’s well beyond what your
perception of a golf car is.
Here’s what it isn’t – a simple little cart with two
seats in the front and room for golf clubs in the
back. Oh, sure, there are plenty of those.
But there’s more. Way more. Since becoming
a distributor of Club Car, the manufacturer of
some of the best golf cars in the world, Associ-
ates Golf Car has been a dealer of the brand and
they come in all shapes and sizes.
“Many of what we sell to high schools and col-
leges are used for equipment and for Gatorade
jugs and, especially, for AED,” Kania said, re-
ferring to the Automated External Defibrillator
device so necessary at athletic events.
Associates, which covers Dutchess, Ulster, Or-
ange, Putnam, Rockland and Westchester coun-
ties, as well as Fairfield County in Connecticut, of-
fers such extensive golf cars that feature doors,
heat and snowplows – just ask Vassar College,
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which bout a dozen of them last year.
On the consumer side, the Club Car ‘Onward’
is a golf car vehicle that can be customized to
whatever the client wants and can range from
$10,000 to $18,000 after the client chooses any-
thing and everything from the color, tires, cup
holders, even the stereo system.
“That one has been a home run,” Kania said.
Associates Golf Car advertises on HudsonVal-
leySportsReport.com as well as traditional news-
paper ads, radio, social media and more, and is
heavily invested in the community, with a pres-
ence at trade shows, fairs and more.
And it doesn’t hurt that Kania herself is a terrific
golfer. “Nothing like networking on the course,”
she said with a laugh. Kania says she expects to
be in the new space before the next golf season
in the spring of 2020.
CONTACT
69 Taft Ave, Poughkeepsie, NY 12603
(845) 471-5225
www.associatesgolfcar.com