Totes Blue Line Golf Size Auto Open/Close Umbrella, Water Repellent Canopy, Black

We bought for our daughter for college and we just moved her home and I asked her about it and she said it never would open up correctly so she never used it. Such a bummer.

This Tote Auto Open - Auto Close Umbrella works really well. I have tried many umbrellas claiming open/close features that only opened. This does both well and has held up for months. It is perfect for one person and good for two people. It can store in a briefcase.

It isn’t exactly golf size as it was advertised so I was a bit surprised. It’s a good umbrella, but it said golf sized. Instead this is a good smallish umbrella that is portable and easy to store in your car. If you’re ant a golf size umbrella, you need to buy one and the type that’s the size of a cane.

Difficult to close with wet hands on a rainy day. Also a hazard is opens too quickly.

Just what my wife needed when she takes her mother out in the rain. Great purchase.

I once had a Totes-branded golf-sized stick umbrella long ago. I loved the coverage that offered plus the auto-open/close; I wanted something similar. I was surprised to find folding golf umbrellas. I took the plunge with this one. As of this writing, Ive had it for over a full year. I keep this umbrella on my daily backpack. Slips into the side pocket without standing out too much. Plenty of coverage when opened. One hand operation is very useful when entering/exiting trains, buses, or buildings. However, I have to be careful in heavy winds around here. This umbrella has flipped on me several times. Each time that happened, I find myself with a section of it ripped loose from its rib at a folding point. The canopy is attached there with basic thread. The thread just breaks with stress of being flipped open. Ive had to repair two breaks. A third is still extant because there is no residual thread for me to tie back. (I think this was a previous break, so that might be why the thread is completely gone.) If I could without affecting the integrity of the canopy (i.e. put holes in it thatll let water through), Id reinforce/replace the threads with something stronger, like a couple of loops of fishing line or some Kevlar threads. For the cost, I expected a bit more resiliency in the materials. Still, even with this problem, I find this umbrella quite useful. I just have to be a bit careful when rolling it up for storage. Everything else is working fine. On the flip-side (pun not intended), Ill be looking at the Titan-series umbrellas if/when I need to replace this one in the future.

I bought this umbrella because it seems to be large enough to cover both my wife and I while walking in the rain, but folds down compact enough to not be a bother when it isnt raining. It does exactly what it should. Opens big, closes small. A solid tool. I havent been in a super windy rainstorm yet so I cannot comment on its durability on that front, but based on current performance I would replace it should it get lost or stolen.

I bought this to replace a similar auto open/close Totes umbrella I bought 10 years ago. They used to have soft foam on the handles, but the handle on this one is coated with rubberized soft-touch material that was sticky right out of the box -- not enough to leave goop on your hands, but enough to feel gross and unpleasant. I was able to scrub all the sticky soft touch stuff off with a toothbrush and lots of isopropyl alcohol, and now its a regular plastic handle which is fine. Handle aside, this umbrella umbrellas just fine, and the auto up/auto down work as intended (and are nice to have!) That said though, if I had known about the handle situation before buying I wouldve bought something different.

This umbrella is great - Ive orders about 4 of these over the years and they last a long time and are wind resistant!

It allows me not to get wet in the rain