a new opinion in Sports about Masters Golf Scoop Retriever

Don't get me wrong. I like a good giggle as well as the next man and I'm not beyond a bit of smutty innuendo from time to time. But. let's face it, losing your balls is no laughing matter.

It isn't so much the money - although golf balls can cost a pretty penny. It's the pride. When I started out a ball that survived the full eighteen holes with me went straight in the trophy cabinet. Admittedly, we're unlikely to hear Tiger Woods boast that he came back with the same ball he started with, but then he's probably given truck loads every week ....and anyway he has people out on the course who search for him (for his balls, that is).

The truth is that this is a fact of life for golfers. You're going to lose balls. You'll lose them in neighbouring fields and gardens, through windows, in ponds and rivers and deep, dark gorse bushes; I've even known large birds to abscond with them.

The Masters Golf Ball Scoop is a very handy way of retrieving your balls from tricky situations, although probably less successful with the large bird scenario and something the RSPB would frown upon, given the relative sizes of the scoop and a bird's gullet.

O________What Is This Thing? ________O

The scoop retriever is one of several ball retrieval systems that the golfer could carry in his bag. Nearly all of them have one feature in common, which is a telescopic pole. These can be as long as fifteen feet, but my version of the Masters Scoop extends to nine feet, which in my view is a good length to get into most awkward spots, while still giving you control. Those fifteen feet chaps can be a little bit wobbly when fully extended. I think most of us feel a little bit wobbly when fully extended, don't we? It's understandable. To make them stiffer would mean adding weight, and none of us wants extra weight in the bag, especially when carrying.

The pole has a plastic grip and lower section, with two further metal sections that twist to unlock and extend. The metal cage/scoop tilts backwards and forwards and there is a prong that will hold a golf ball in place if the scoop is turned upside down.

This kind of retriever is especially useful in water. Some retrievers need to press against a ball and a firmer surface to engage. In water, where the ball is possibly lying on very soft silt this becomes very difficult, whereas the scoop will pick up the ball quite easily, the water and silt quickly running away through the cage.

That doesn't mean to say that the scoop isn't just as effective in a gorse bush, or through a barbed wire fence into a field. It's a very handy instrument.

O_________ Cost and Value _________O

This cost me ?8.99 online, which is terrific value when you consider that most golf balls cost at least ?1.00 each. I've only to retrieve nine golf balls (and they need not necessarily have been mine in the first place) and I've made my money back. I can tell you that I shall retrieve many more than that in the lifetime of the scoop.

Another advantage is not to do with money, but with safety. Sometimes a golfer will pursue his ball down a slippery river bank, struggling for a foothold and clinging precariously to bits of bush and tree. With the scoop he might not have to do that. He might not have to venture into the field with the bull, and as for gorse...please....it's too painful.

There may be sturdier, longer and certainly more expensive retrievers out there, but this one, at the price, will do very nicely for me, thank you.

Summary: An essential part of a golfer's kit.

Source: http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/golf/masters-golf-scoop-retriever/1710732/

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