Rules Question for you

[Toby_LeRhone]

Shoe soles are supposed to be grippy to the extent that any unintended movement is cancelled out. The worth of any directional extent of grippiness is surely questionable.

I'd rather have a nice looking, comfortable pair of shoes that have soles that are easy to clean. I would challenge industry to come up with a pair of performance golf shoes, the soles of which can be freed of mud, leaves and other course clag in as few a movements as possible and without having to take them off to do so.

 

[surefire]

Shoe soles are supposed to be grippy to the extent that any unintended movement is cancelled out. The worth of any directional extent of grippiness is surely questionable.

Surely no more questionable than say, moving 11g of weight on a driver?

 

[MashieNiblick]

Good point dB. It seems to me that a lot of gear, shoes included, is designed with the assumption that you play in Florida week in week out. Shoes with all kinds of nobbles and bobbles on the sole for perfectly dry manicured fairways that just pick up clag and are a nightmare to clean.

My otherwise excellent DryJoys pick up so much mud on our clay based course that they weigh twice as much at the end of the round and have vitually no grip - defeating the object of the design.

And don't get me started on all those thin synthetic shirts to keep you "cool". No wonder we now need "base layers".

I too would like to see some gear that is designed for the type of conditions we actually play in most of the time.

 

[viscount17]

surely the old spikes were automatically adjustable to draw, fade, thin or knob?

 

[Leftie]

Quite right. Mine could produce any of those at any time.

They could help play any of the shots, but not necessarily in the right order.