Ball retriever attachment

Claim 1

In combination, a golf ball retriever and a golf club having a shaft, a head on the free end portion of said shaft having a hosel fitting about the free end portion of said shaft, and a tapered metal blade extending from said hosel with a front striking face and a rear face, having a sole adapted to lie parallel to the ground, a top surface tapering outwardly with respect to the sole as it extends from the hosel, and a blade tapering to converge from the sole to the top surface thereof, a foldable plastic cup molded of flexible plastic material having a flat bottom of the general diameter of a golf ball and an annular side wall tapering upwardly from said bottom and terminating into an opening of a size to accommodate the ready scooping of a golf ball from water and the like, said side wall having a plurality of slots extending therealong for the drainage of water from the cup, and having an integral clip extending radially outwardly of said side wall at the angle of taper thereof, said clip being in the form of an open loop having a bottom surface extending along the outside of said side wall and having generally plane surfaces converging relative to said bottom surface from opposite sides of said bottom surface as they extend outwardly therefrom and having a rounded outer end portion tapering outwardly from the upper end of said clip to the lower end thereof to correspondingly mate with said top surface of the blade of the golf club, and with said bottom surface engaging said sole of the club head, said open loop being formed by one of said converging plane surfaces, said one converging plane surface having a top flange portion extending from said rounded outer end portion, a slot extending along its entire surface, and a bottom inturned flange portion extending from said bottom surface, wherein said top and bottom flange portions engage one of said faces of said blade, said inturned portion forming a face adapted to be engaged by the shaft of a golf club and accommodating said clip to be depressed by pressing against the shaft of a golf club and fit said clip over the shaft to be slidably moved along said shaft and hosel to fit along the blade of the golf club and support said cup to be positively retained to depend from the blade of the golf club in relatively rigid relation with respect thereto by the form of said clip and the elasticity of the material from which said cup is made, to position said cup to scoop up a ball by movement of the club head with the hosel leading the blade of the club head, the foldability of said cup enabling said cup to be readily carried in the pocket of a golf bag.