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Author Topic: Serious Question Tim Behle Administrator MacNeal Sector Member # 209 posted February 20, 2005 04:14 PM                       Now that this site is attracting the likes of top quality Sportsmen such as Gerald Stewart. I finally feel comfortable in asking this question, sure that I will get a quality answer. Which spike is better to have on my shoes? Steel? or those plastic soft ones? The local Golf course just became public, and they no longer allow my steel spikes. Should I find a new course, or buy the plastic ones? [ February 20, 2005, 04:31 PM: Message edited by: Tim Behle ] -------------------- Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass kickin'. Posts: 3160 | From: Five Miles East of Vic, AZ | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged Jack Roberts Knows what it's all about Member # 13 posted February 20, 2005 04:50 PM                    More and more courses are banning steel spikes. In a few more years I doubt if you will find any courses that allow them. Jack Posts: 499 | From: Elko NV formerly MD | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Jay Nistetter Legalize Weed, Free the Dixie Chicks Member # 140 posted February 20, 2005 06:25 PM                    Some don't even allow the plastic ones Tim. And many of them don't allow jeans and T-shirts either. Shirts must have a collar and that doesn't mean Tritronics either. -------------------- Understanding the coyote is not as important as knowing where they are. I usually let the fur prime up before I leave 'em lay. Posts: 1006 | From: Arizona | Registered: Feb 2003  |  IP: Logged Yellerdog Knows what it's all about Member # 356 posted February 20, 2005 06:55 PM                    I would recommend you do what I did. Quit playing golf! -------------------- Lee Smith Remember, we meet at dawn. Posts: 59 | From: Southeastern Michigan | Registered: Jul 2004  |  IP: Logged Tim Behle Administrator MacNeal Sector Member # 209 posted February 21, 2005 03:57 AM                       I've played several courses that don't allow T-shirts. Never bothered me much as I don't often wear them. No one has ever mentioned me wearing jeans. Do those soft spikes grip as well? Do they use the same sized stud, or am I going to have to buy new shoes as well? -------------------- Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass kickin'. Posts: 3160 | From: Five Miles East of Vic, AZ | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted February 21, 2005 09:00 AM                       It's nice to get current on these developments. Thanks. Had I not given up golf years ago, I might have been arrested, showing up in my spikes...or did I toss them, I don't remember? Do we need a golf forum, or what? Good hunting. LB edit: but it's nice to know somebody besides Bill O'Reilly is looking out for us. I didn't realize those spikes were such a threat? This is right up there with the plastic knives on airplanes; I'll sleep easier knowing the spike police are doing their job! (not to mention stamping out Tee shirts) [ February 21, 2005, 09:22 AM: Message edited by: Leonard ] -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 31460 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged varmit hunter Knows what it's all about Member # 37 posted February 21, 2005 11:25 AM                    GOLF, Did you really say stinking GOLF on the finest predator board there is????????????????. Sorry Leonard I got carried away and forgot it is you're board. I guess you can even say bowling if you won't to. I cant help but think how much good Coyote cover it takes to build a stinking GOLF course. Sorry Ronnie -------------------- Make them pay for the wind. Posts: 932 | From: Orange,TX | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged R.Shaw Peanut Butter Man, da da da da DAH! Member # 73 posted February 21, 2005 01:28 PM                   Leonard, I am not a golfer,but I think the plastic spikes are to prevent transmission of grass diseases from one green to the next. Randy Posts: 545 | From: Nebraska | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted February 21, 2005 01:32 PM                       I couldn't agree more, Ronnie. We are in need of a seven step program. It's sad, you do everything possible, and then this is the way they pay us back. Where did we go wrong? Good hunting. LB edit: thanks for the info, Randy. What, plastic kills disease? [ February 21, 2005, 01:35 PM: Message edited by: Leonard ] -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 31460 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Tim Behle Administrator MacNeal Sector Member # 209 posted February 21, 2005 01:46 PM                       Ronnie, The wife doesn't allow me to chase fat chicks around the local Honky tonks any more. So when It's too hot or too windy to go calling, I play golf. Sunday, the wind wouldn't let up, so I took the boys to the local course. -------------------- Personally, I carry a gun because I'm too young to die and too old to take an ass kickin'. Posts: 3160 | From: Five Miles East of Vic, AZ | Registered: Jun 2003  |  IP: Logged R.Shaw Peanut Butter Man, da da da da DAH! Member # 73 posted February 21, 2005 02:42 PM                   No expert here. But have been told the fungi/disease does not attach itself as easily to plastic as it does steel. Thus less likely to be spread to the next green. Just violated one of my own self- imposed rules. I made a post based on someone elses opinion instead of my own personal experience. At least it did not pertain to calling. Randy Posts: 545 | From: Nebraska | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Leonard HMFIC Member # 2 posted February 21, 2005 03:14 PM                       Yeah, but. Randy, this place is like the Outback. There's no rules, check the registration page, if you don't believe me. Good hunting. LB -------------------- EL BEE Knows It All and Done It All. Don't piss me off! Posts: 31460 | From: Upland, CA | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged Jack Roberts Knows what it's all about Member # 13 posted February 21, 2005 05:13 PM                    The main reason for outlawing all spikes is to limit damage to the greens, mostly compaction but also some people drag their feet. The replacement looks sort of like a round rubber pad and they will fit your old shoes. No, I don't play golf, but have built quite a few golf courses. Also leased a golf course for 10 years. Jack Posts: 499 | From: Elko NV formerly MD | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged R.Shaw Peanut Butter Man, da da da da DAH! Member # 73 posted February 21, 2005 05:51 PM                   And Jack's answer just reenforced my rule. Randy Posts: 545 | From: Nebraska | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged RayG Knows what it's all about Member # 9 posted February 21, 2005 07:42 PM                    I think this is OUTRAGEOUS. Everyone here should know that steel spikes do a much better when we need to aerate the soil. Stand up for you Rights. I say you should Quit playing golf. That will teach those uppity golf nuts a lesson for sure. -------------------- RG If you don't vote, don't offer your opinions about the outcome. Posts: 34 | From: Corvallis, MT | Registered: Jan 2003  |  IP: Logged GUTPILE Knows what it's all about Member # 448 posted February 21, 2005 07:53 PM                   Play pool at the local tavern instead. I don't know why any grown man would want to hit his balls around a perfectly groomed gun range ! -------------------- Guns have two enemies: RUST & POLITICIANS. TOO FEW PEOPLE MAKE TOO MANY DECISIONS FOR TOO MANY PEOPLE Posts: 132 | From: Curlew Wa | Registered: Nov 2004  |  IP: Logged

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