Ball retrieving device

Abstract

A golf ball retrieval device includes an annular collar sized for a snug friction fit onto a conventional golf ball. The collar in use is removable mounted on the grip end of a golf club and the collar tapped onto a golf ball so that the golf ball becomes frictionally lodged within the collar. The collar holds the golf ball in the manner of an egg sitting in an egg cup.

1 . A practice putting device comprising: 
 an annular rigid cylindrical collar having a ball-receiving bore defining opposite rims of said collar and having a corresponding bore axis of symmetry, wherein said collar has a height dimension parallel to said bore axis which is less than the diameter of the collar measured perpendicular to said bore axis, and wherein a radially inner edge, radially inner relative to said bore axis of symmetry, of each of said rims is chamfered with a chamfer,    and wherein said collar has a substantially cylindrical outside surface disposed radially outwardly of said bore axis,    and wherein said bore and said chamfer are sized to snugly receive the golf ball in frictional engagement in said bore and said chamfer,    and wherein said bore has at least a smooth-bore opening and has a diameter sufficient for a snug friction fit of said collar onto the entire outer circumference of the golf ball without the maximum girth of the golf ball fitting into said bore.    
   
   
       2 . The device of  claim 1  wherein an outside diameter of said collar forms a ratio of substantially 2:1 with said height dimension.  
   
   
       3 . The device of  claim 2  wherein said collar is of metal.  
   
   
       4 . The device of  claim 2  wherein said outside diameter is substantially two inches and said height dimension is substantially one inch.  
   
   
       5 . The device of  claim 1  wherein an aperture is formed in a side wall of said collar and further comprising an elongate spike mountable into said aperture so as to extend outwardly of said collar.  
   
   
       6 . The device of  claim 5  wherein said aperture is threaded and one end of said spike correspondingly threaded for threaded mating in said aperture.  
   
   
       7 . The device of  claim 5  wherein said spike is sized to fit into snug sliding frictional engagement in an aperture in a distal end of a golf club grip.  
   
   
       8 . The device of  claim 1  wherein each said chamfer is a forty-five degree chamfer.  
   
   
       9 . The device of  claim 4  wherein each said chamfers is a forty-five degree chamfer.  
   
   
       10 . The device of  claim 8  wherein said each said chamfer has a depth of substantially ten thousandths of an inch from a corresponding outside-most edge of said rim.  
   
   
       11 . The device of  claim 9  wherein said each said chamfer has a depth of substantially ten thousandths of an inch from a corresponding outside-most edge of said rim.  
   
   
       12 . The device of  claim 1  wherein said bore is entirely smooth-bored.  
   
   
       13 . The device of  claim 1  wherein said bore is a cylinder.  
   
   
       14 . The device of  claim 13  wherein said bore is entirely smooth-bored.