Best golf cart floor mats: rubber and fitted mats by body

Golf cart floor mats do one job well: they keep sand, grass and wet shoes from wearing the paint off the steel floor pan, which is where most carts over ten years old show rust first. A fitted rubber mat for your body is about $90 to $150 and drops in; a trim-to-fit rubber mat is about $40 to $70 and takes twenty minutes with a knife. Carpet and aluminum are for carts that stay dry. This page covers the floor for the seats and interior section.

Rubber, carpet or aluminum

Rubber is the default. It does not care about water, sand or sun, it hoses off, and the fitted versions have a raised lip that keeps everything on top of the mat rather than under it. It is also the quietest option on a cart with a rattly floor pan, because the weight damps it.

Carpet is marine carpet with a rubber back, the same material as a boat deck. It is cooler on bare feet and looks finished with a nice seat set. It holds sand and grass seed and takes a day to dry after a soaking. Right for a garaged cart that stays on pavement.

Aluminum diamond plate matches aluminum wheels and a diamond-plate rear bed on a lifted cart. It never wears out. It is hot in the sun, loud, and slick under a wet sandal, which rules it out for most beach carts. If you want the look, the lift kit page is probably already open on another tab.

Fitted or trim-to-fit

A fitted mat is molded for one body. The accelerator, brake, parking brake and the hump down the middle are already cut out, the edges are raised, and it is heavy enough to stay put. Buy it when you know your body and want to be done in a minute.

A trim-to-fit mat is flat ribbed rubber with cut lines printed for the common layouts. Lay it in, mark the pedals with chalk, pull it out and cut on a board with a fresh utility blade. It takes about twenty minutes and the result is a good fit with no lip. Buy it when the cart is an older or unusual body, when the budget is tight, or when you want to cover the passenger side only.

Both come out for cleaning. Neither should ever be glued down fully, because water trapped under a mat is worse for the floor than no mat at all.

By body: what differs

The floor pan is not the same shape on every cart, which is why the fitted mats are model-specific.

Club Car DS has a flat floor with the pedals close together and a tall hump. Precedent, Onward and Tempo share a floor with the pedals spread wider and a lower hump; a DS mat will not fit.

EZGO TXT and Medalist share a floor. RXV has a different pedal cluster and a smaller brake pedal because of the electric park brake, so TXT mats do not fit. The Express S4 and L4 use the TXT or RXV floor depending on which platform they were built on.

Yamaha G14 through G22 share a floor. Drive and Drive2 share a different one, and most Drive mats are listed for both.

If you are not sure which you have, the fitment finder will sort it from make, model and year.

Which one for your cart

Cart	Buy	Note
Club Car Precedent, Onward, Tempo (2004 on)	Xtreme Mats (Precedent)	Most common body; every brand makes one
Club Car DS (1982 to 2013)	Xtreme Mats (DS) or trim-to-fit	Tall hump; measure before buying a flat mat
EZGO TXT (1996 on), Medalist	Xtreme Mats (TXT)	TXT-based Express uses the TXT mat
EZGO RXV (2008 on)	Xtreme Mats (RXV)	Different pedals from TXT; do not swap
Yamaha Drive, Drive2 (2007 on)	Xtreme Mats (Drive)	One mat covers both on most listings
Yamaha G14 to G22 (1995 to 2007)	Trim-to-fit	Few fitted mats are made for this body

The fitment pages for Club Car, EZGO and Yamaha explain how to find the model year on the serial plate.

Install: ten minutes, or twenty with a knife

Sweep the floor and let it dry. If there is surface rust, now is the time to sand it, hit it with a rust-converting primer and a coat of paint, because the mat will hide it for years and you want it stopped, not sealed in.

Drop a fitted mat in and press the pedal cutouts down around the pedal arms. Check the accelerator returns fully and the brake pedal does not catch the lip; if either does, the mat is for the wrong body.

For a trim-to-fit mat, lay it in, mark the pedals and the hump with chalk, cut it on a board outside the cart, and trim in small bites until it lies flat. Fix the corners with the supplied tabs or a few dabs of outdoor adhesive so it cannot creep toward the pedals.

Keeping the floor dry

Pull the mat once a month in wet weather and let the pan dry. Sand under a mat holds water against the paint; the mat is there to catch the sand, not to hide it. If you are fitting new seats or a dash kit at the same time, do the floor last so the dust from the other jobs is not under it.