HoosierGolfer

For me four is the number a couple of times but I have never been able to hit five.

I really don't appreciate the personal attack. I am entitled to my opinion as is the course owner. You don't have to like it or agree, but the personal attacks are unwarranted and uncalled for. I NEVER ONCE disputed any of the information posted by others.

Lesson with a LIVE PGA Teaching Professional. The only way to learn. You can not get better by reading a book or artical, advice from friends or internet golf forums. A live qualified human is the only way.

I agree with some of this......they won't get dark in the car but I wear mine on the course and they get super dark in the sun and work just fine for ME. I also bought a second pair of prescription polarized sunglasses but don't wear them that often on the course.

I'm guessing he will slice a shot a mile right, slam the club in the ground, drop a bunch of GD bombs, blame it on Hank and WD a couple holes later with a sore throat or something. Off topic.....I did hear the other day that Tiger said he has just been following his late fathers advice the past couple of years, which was "to just play golf to the best of your ability, win everything you can and screw everything else" He did all three pretty well.

I think Golfsmith bought the brand? I know the Golfsmith store in Indy is loaded with the brand right now. Hard to believe they ever fell so far having been so big back when.

I really don't have the desire for any sort of debate on this subject and I have been around the game for nearly thirty five years and I remember the whole debate back when soft spikes first came out. The PGA Pro at our course, as I stated in a couple of prior posts, has been a PGA professional almost as long as I have been alive (48) and he mows the greens almost everyday as he has done since the course opened in 59' and his observation does not support this "actual research". Our greens right now are disease and fungus free. As he and I talked about this subject once again just this morning he pointed out that there have been several "old timers" at the course that have in fact never made the switch to solf spikes which was his reason for continuing to stock them. He noted also that they have become harder to find in some cases but he has always been able to stock them and while not really encouraging their use to everyone, he has always allowed their use and he intends to continue to do so. We are also keeping in mind that this course is not Pebble Beach in terms of number of rounds played per day or per year but it does see its fair share of play day in and day out for a very rural country course. As the owner also pointed out to me, this is another reason why it is nice to live in America. If you own the course, you get to make the rules and in fifty one years in the golf business, he has never received a single complaint about the use of metal spikes on the course. The clubhouse is another story and one must suffer the wife of the owners raft for wearing them inside. Like I said before, I respect everyones opinion and both myself and our pro/owner have enjoyed following this thread and it has served its purpose, which was to hear the thoughts of others. Thanks to those that posted and kept the bashing/bad mouthing to a minimal. It was much appreciated. This pretty well sums it up from me and my thoughts have been made as well as your thoughts. Thank you!

I agree. Links all the way. I'm very lucky to have a links course as my home course here in the states and I love the place. Traditional golf for sure.

That is the route I took some time ago. I also tried tubes but you end up pulling them as well most of the time so I just went with a cart style bag as I use a push cart. Works great.

I clean my clubs after every round with Windex and an old tooth brush. I also have a club/ball washer mounted in my garage that I use to clean my irons. One observation I have made at my home course is that I hear many guys while playing talking about the new groove rule and how much they hate it yet a couple of them never clean their clubs and their grooves are packed full of dirt, so they are hitting shots whit clubs with no grooves at all. I find that kind of funny.

I played yesterday evening and I wish I had taken my camera. My playing partner and I were making some observations while on the green's, which were damp from all the rain we have been receiving and he was actually leaving much deeper marks with his "soft" spikes. Nice round quarter sized marks or indentations everywhere he stepped versus my little holes from the metal spikes. After just a couple of minutes, both sets of marks would disappear almost entirely. Just to note also; I change my shoes at the first tee when I play and anyone that would walk inside the clubhouse with steel spikes should get thrown out. Bottom line for me is that they are allowed where I play so I will wear them for now. There is about 100 rounds a day played at my home course and with a couple of dozen people wearing steel there is nothing noticable happening on the greens and many of these players have been wearing steel much longer than I have. Everyone has the right to their opinion on this topic and I respect everyones. Thanks for the replies.

I think these "reviews" are way over rated. The only things that matters is how the clubs work in your hands and not in the hands of others. That being said, I think Ping makes very good quality equipment and I have demo'ed several of their clubs this spring and I give them very high marks.

I thank everyone for sharing their thoughts on this topic. Like normal, a few of you found it hard to address the topic without making it personal but that is human nature in todays internet world. I have no problem whats so ever not wearing steel anywhere but at home but for now I will continue to wear them at my home course. I beleive that golf carts have done far more damage to the courses than spikes could ever do.

I recently hit a tee shot in league play that everyone (the four of us) agreed may have landed out of bounds. When I went to the bag for another ball for the provisional, I clearly stated to everyone what brand of ball I was playing and how it was marked and showed everyone the ball I was about to hit so everyone would be clear when we looked for my first ball, which lucky for me was found to be in play. If everyone would do this, there would be few problems like the one here.

Metal spikes will be allowed this summer in all three of the remaining majors as they were at the Masters and every PGA stop this year. Phil Mickelson has always worn metal and I'm sure he will continue to do so.