Demystifying The Ball Picker
Golf Magazine|October 2019
What Is It About These Machines, Like The Wittek Range Rover, That Turns Us Into Complete Basket Cases?
Demystifying The Ball Picker

GOLFERS HAVE ALMOST A PRIMAL need to try to hit a ball picker in motion. It’s juvenile, sure, but about as automatic as Tiger closing with a 54-hole lead. Why? For the same reason boys and girls make fun of each other: because we have a huge crush on it. That beguiling machine, rattling along over the terrain, still somehow pulling in all those striped orbs. Really, who can resist trying to get its attention? —Evan Rothman

1. MOUNTING BRACKET

This bracket secures the picker to the front of the motorized cart (not pictured) that propels it. The picker can be easily detached when the cart is needed for other jobs.

This story is from the October 2019 edition of Golf Magazine.

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