PA-PLAYA
Ah, great idea, the old mans rubber cup to retrieve golf balls. I hate digging balls out of the cup with the putter, it can easily damage the cup no matter how hard you try to be careful.

Someone mentioned that only regret will be not having it done sooner, well the two guys who I have been talking too said the same thing, why did they wait so long,

      PA-PLAYA I'm guessing that will be fine to do, especially if I have one of those rubber ball retrievers at the end of my putter grip.

      Do you have one?

          LBlack14 Do you have one?

          I do. If you're self conscious about it they make some that are smaller and less obvious. At times the only other way for me to get the ball out of the cup was to get down on both knees, and sometimes I couldn't get back up.

              Martee , great idea, the old mans rubber cup to retrieve golf balls.

              Heck, I'm thinking about getting one, and I'm still a pup!! I view it more as a lazy man's way to get the ball out of the cup, short of having someone else do it for you.....

                Martee
                Have to diverge from the OP's thread for just a moment.

                " .....it can easily damage the cup no matter how hard you try to be careful." It can also damage your putter.

                Many yrs ago I picked up a used-but-perfect YES! Callie putter, not a mark on it. A "friend" asked if he could try it, so ...
                I handed it to him. He usually digs the ball out of the cup with the putter head but I thought he'd never do that with my new-to-me 100% perfect putter. I didn't even think it was necessary to say don't do it.

                He did.

                And scratched the top of the head so the scratch cannot be ignored. I bitched. I was fuming. He said it's going to get marked up sooner or later so so what. If someone in our foursome leaves a wedge next to the green or needs their cart pushed along the fairway as they navigate a shot from the rough, I'll do that for anyone but I won't do it for him.

                Fuck 'em.'

                  garyt1957 I do. If you're self conscious about it they make some that are smaller and less obvious. At times the only other way for me to get the ball out of the cup was to get down on both knees, and sometimes I couldn't get back up.

                  I was just making sure you 2 had one. I have one here somewhere, but never used it. My hip has never given me one single issue or pain since recovery from replacement. Now if I can just get these knees squared away.

                  You guys may not realize this, but it does me good seeing others have my same experience.

                    a month later

                    LBlack14 4 weeks post surgery and truer words were never spoken....wished I would have done this sooner, like 3 years.

                    Those who have posted about hip replacement are spot on. PT, Walk, follow the instructions. All great advice