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AssigneeFalcon Golf, LLC
InventorsJames Evan Johnson, James T. Hegedus, Douglas J. Christensen, Peter R. Johnson
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A ball lifting device having an elevator is attachable to a flagstick for enabling easy removal of a golf ball that is holed while putting with the flagstick in place in the cup. The elevator may be attached to a handle portion that extends up along the pole portion of the flagstick allowing the elevator to be raised by way of the handle portion. The handle portion may have a hook portion for hooking up with a golf club so that hand contact with the device is eliminated. The handle portion may be a thin member. The handle portion may be a tubular portion. The elevator may be spring loaded with the spring manually loaded by a golfer and released to eject the golf ball from the cup.
A lifting device for lifting balls out of a golf hole in combination with a flagstick, the flagstick having a pole portion with an outside diameter of 0.50 to 0.55 inches and a length of at least about seven feet, the flagstick further having a metal ferrule at the bottom end of the pole portion for seating the flagstick in a socket in a cup defining a golf hole and having a flag at a top portion of the pole portion, the lifting device comprising a disk shaped elevator portion loosely positioned about the pole, the disk shaped elevator having seating position on or just above the ferrule and vertically slidable on the pole, the lifting device further having a handle connection to the disk shaped elevator and extending upwardly along the pole portion, the handle having a hook at an upper end of the handle, whereby when the flagstick is in the cup and a golf ball is on the elevator in the seating position, the elevator is raisable out of and above the golf hole with the golf ball thereon.
A method of removing a golf ball from the annular space between a wall of a metal cup of a golf hole and the flagstick, the golf hole having a diameter of about 4 and ¼ inches, an upper edge of a the cup being recessed from a green surface at least about an inch, the cup having a central socket at a lower end of the cup, the flagstick having a pole portion with an outside diameter of 0.50 to 0.55 inches and a length of at least about seven feet, a lower end of the pole portion fixed in a ferrule, the ferrule seated in the central socket of the cup, the golf ball resting on a disk shaped elevator slidingly engaged with flagstick, the elevator with a diameter less than a diameter of the cup, a thin member connecting to the disk shaped elevator and extending upwardly along the flagstick and having a hook positioned above the green level, the method comprising:
A method of allowing the removal of golf balls from a golf hole with a conventional flagstick therein without removing the flagstick, the conventional flagstick having a pole portion having a diameter of 0.50 to 0.55 inches, a length of at least about seven feet, a flag at the upper end of the pole portion, a ferrule at a lower end of the pole portion, the ferrule sized to be received in a metal cup in the golf hole, the method comprising:
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