ProActive Sports, Player Select Super-Lite Golf Ball Retriever, 9ft, Lightweight Fiberglass Telescopic Shaft, Securely Picks Golf Ball With Easy To Use Push Release, Golf Ball Grabber

It’s great to carry a ball retriever, but you don’t want some big thing sticking out of your bag getting in the way of your clubs and signaling to everyone that you’re probably going to dump a few in the water today. That’s why the ProActive Sports Player Select Super-Lite is the way to go. Fits in the large apparel pocket of your golf bag and really doesn’t add any weight for us walkers. The trade-off to the light weight and telescoping design is you will need to be a little gentle with opening and closing for it to last. Well worth it for the performance and functionality.

My buddies are jealous at just how compact and effective this little gem is. It is truly compact...fits in one of the pockets on the side of my golf bag. This is the second one I have bought...I lost the first one. See, I'd buy it again! Stay in the fairway and you will rarely use it, but help your buddies when they put their ball in the water.

so light!received quickly!Thanks

I bought this to fit in my bag and be hidden which it does perfectly. It will not break and a bag gets thrown around loading and unloading onto a golf cart. Until I realized you had to real it in the proper way, I wasn't a big fan but since then I like it a lot. The neon colors make it easy to place over a ball in unclear water and one pull the ball is yours. One small negative, I had to glue the end on soon after my first use. Hope I don't ever need to remove it. I have shown it to my golf partners and I'm sure there will be more in our circle.

I had my last retriever(same model) for about 3 years until it finally wore out. I have probably used it 500 times and never had a problem. Very lightweight and folds up for easy storage. Reaches about 8 feet which is usually enough

It very light and works pretty well in many situations (water, bushes, etc). But, it is a bit difficult to open and close - you must pull or yank all of the sections fully out or back in until they lock. You can only use it when it is fully extended. It easily grabs balls that are sitting in the open. It is hard to grab balls that are embedded in mud or bushes. It is easy to break -- the smallest sections are really thin plastic tubes. if you catch it in a bush or reeds when fully extended, it will likely break (mine did).

I've bought this 2 times now, and both times it worked like a charm for retrieving golf balls. I would go so far as to say this might be a top design for a golf ball retriever. However, I have now broken both retrievers prior to getting my money's worth out of them.The first time it happened, it snapped when I used a lot of force to close it. I felt this was my fault, so I bought another, thinking that I needed to be careful when collapsing it.First use with the new one, I was very careful to not put too much force on it, but was then unable to collapse the final segment. Remembering how easy I broke the last one, this time I gingerly tried to tap it loose on the ground, not too hard as I was afraid to snap it. in this process, the butt end cap came off, which I was prepared to superglue back on, but it broke again with the basket snapping clean off...So now I would like to warn everyone, this is a great design, and functionally, for retrieving golf balls, it might be one of the best. There is a major design flaw with collapsing this product, which is really the main reason I went with this over a more robust system. I saw someone comment about using WD40 or a similar lubricant on theirs, which may work, but I'm not willing to spend any more money on this to test it myself.TL:DR This product has major issues with longevity and might cost more than it's worth in that regard.

Honestly the best ball retriever on the market. This is my second one as I mishandled the first. Not even a question if I'd buy it again.