How to Make a Golf Ball Retriever
Updated January 17, 2022
Golf balls are expensive, some costing about $4 each, so you hate to lose them. A golf ball can end up in the water where the only way to retrieve it is either to wade out to where it's located or have a trusty ball retriever in your golf bag. Or it finds itself in the bushes and sometimes in a tree, where it would be handy to have a ball retriever instead of either shinnying up the tree or rooting around a thorny bush to find it. Golfers are loathe to spend money on such things as ball retrievers, but you can make one for only a few dollars.
Instructions
Difficulty: Easy
- Find both the glue and the telescoping handle at a "dollar store." The telescoping handle is attached to a ceiling duster, and the head can either be easily removed or it can be broken or sawed off. Also, look for a tube of glue, ideally one containing an epoxy.
- Go to a kitchen outlet store and buy a small tea strainer whose handle can be removed, exposing the wire or metal rod holding the strainer together.
- Fill the hole of the telescoping handle with the glue, up to about an inch from the tip, then wipe the excess from the outside of the handle.
- Put the wire or metal rod of the tea strainer inside the telescoping handle.
- Allow about 24 hours for the glue to dry and the tea strainer to be permanently affixed to the telescoping handle.
- Put your new ball retriever either in your golf bag with your clubs, or in a pocket if, when it is collapsed, it fits there.
- Use your new ball retriever the next time your golf ball find its way into a shallow lake, trees or bushes. In fact, sometimes a golf ball find its way into the gutter of a roof, and you'll find that your new equipment will come in handy to get it back.