
I'm not getting into this debate again!
If I feel like wearing soft spikes I will - I will be a judge of the underfoot conditions - I will not have some jumped up idiot of a greens committee chairman who is more likely to be playing off a 28 handicap telling me what is best for his greens when the rest of the course is probably like a bog.
I wear metal spikes where ever and when ever I like, if the course where I want to play don't like it then they lose a green fee - there are plenty of other courses and clubs about who do not have that misguided veiw!
The tendency/trend is now going back to the safer metal spike - thank the lord common sense is starting re-assert itself.
We all know that most Health & Safety laws (H&S) are by and large over the top but due consideration must be given to the safety and security of the stance during the golf swing and the general walking conditions of the course. If the course demands a better more secure grip then I say to hell with the greens - most of us have to go to work the next day and can't afford to be off injured.
Metal golf spikes have been in use for decades. I have always felt that there is more to the desire to ban them than just a few spike marks.
If spike marks due to metal spikes are that much of a problem, then the R&A and the USGA should be lobbied to allow you to tamp the damn things down - now wouldn't that solve a few problems, (although I think the greedy manufacturers would have something to say about that!)