Abstract: A hand held golf ball pick-up device allowing a golfer in a golf cart to pick up a golf ball from a golf cart. The device has a handle long enough for a golfer sitting in the cart to reach the ball on the ground next to the cart. The device also has a receptacle that receives the ball while the ball is sitting on the ground. The receptacle has a lip from which projections project toward an interior of the receptacle. The receptacle can have the shape of the bottom of a golf club. The projections are of a flexible material, such as rubber. The tips of the projections form an opening space through which the ball is pushed into the receptacle. Opposing projections have a distance there between, across the opening, of less than a diameter of the golf ball. The projections hold the golf ball in the receptacle but allow one or more fingers to reach into the receptacle to remove the ball.