Article: A city where golf carts are a teen status symbol.(USA)

Byline: Patrik Jonsson Special to The Christian Science Monitor

PEACHTREE CITY, GA. -- With over 9,000 registered golf carts and nearly 100 miles of tar paths, Peachtree City, Ga., can now claim the title of the "golf-cart capital of the world." Which city did it recently overtake? No surprise, really: Sun City, Ariz.

But there's a difference between the preferred transport of Arizona's retired Sansabelt crowd and the commuter culture of this expanding suburb 30 miles outside Atlanta. "In Sun City they've got all the old golfers, but this is where the youth dominate the golf-cart world," says sophomore Josh Riedel, exiting a four-wheeler.

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