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Joe Leenheer

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You had to be there...PART 2
« on: November 06, 2012, 09:53:05 PM »
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Matthew Essig

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #1 on: November 07, 2012, 01:31:31 AM »
Are those spike marks?
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RDecker

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #2 on: November 07, 2012, 07:10:10 AM »
You can almost smell the clubman talc and barbasol.
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Bill_McBride

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #3 on: November 07, 2012, 07:45:58 AM »
I really miss the sound of metal spikes on pavement.  In 1995 I showed up at a private club in Ponte Vedra with metal spikes on my favorite Foot-Joys.  The club was proud of their bent grass greens and made me switch to soft spikes, which the clubhouse attendant changed at no charge.  I still miss spikes but have accepted the change.  More or less. 
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Mark McKeever

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2012, 07:48:22 AM »
Thats what the benches in our locker rooms look like.  Classic.

Being a younger player, I never used metal spikes.  I'd like to try them someday.  Do many (if any) clubs still allow them?

Mark
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Bill_McBride

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #5 on: November 07, 2012, 07:57:08 AM »
Quote from: Mark McKeever on November 07, 2012, 07:48:22 AM
Thats what the benches in our locker rooms look like.  Classic.

Being a younger player, I never used metal spikes.  I'd like to try them someday.  Do many (if any) clubs still allow them?

Mark

Not that I'm aware of. 
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John McCarthy

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #6 on: November 07, 2012, 09:52:32 AM »
The adoption of soft spikes are one of the things that have really improved public course conditions over the last 20 or so years.  It used to be every other green used to have drag marks from a lazy golfer not picking up their feet (or being too dumb to realize what they are doing). 

I also assume that pro shop carpets don't get replaced as often as they used to be replaced. 

As stated above, the sound that spikes make on concrete is one of those things that I will never forget.  I think Nancy Lopez has said it was the sound of her father's metal spikes is one of the things that drew her toward the game as a young girl.   
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Mark Pearce

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #7 on: November 07, 2012, 10:03:49 AM »
I turned up at Windermere before BUDA in spikes (bought by mistake, I thought I was buying Soft Spikes to replace my worn ones).  The pro and his assistant were delighted, as much by the sound of them as anything else, I think.
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Niall C

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #8 on: November 07, 2012, 02:28:03 PM »
I've just read a newsletter from the course manager at Moray GC warning members of the danger of softspikes during winter. Indeed I recall the then headgreenkeeper on the Old Course at St Andrews, when asked by me whether he was in favour of softspikes say he thought there might be safety issues with some of the contours at St Andrews. I took it from his answer that he didn't consider them to have any bearing on the condition of the course either way.

I would suggest that the majority of golfers in the UK wear softspikes, and probably mainly due to the fact thats simply what they are sold by the manufacturers.

Niall
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Joe Leenheer

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #9 on: November 07, 2012, 02:52:08 PM »
Any ideas on where this bench resides?
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Brad Tufts

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #10 on: November 07, 2012, 03:28:22 PM »
Oakmont?
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Howard Riefs

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #11 on: November 07, 2012, 03:32:59 PM »
I loved the sound of metal spikes in the morning.
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Pete_Pittock

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #12 on: November 07, 2012, 04:01:45 PM »
Not Oakmont. Not TCC. Decor is wrong.

Doh, I was in the upstairs locker room.
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Dean DiBerardino

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #13 on: November 07, 2012, 04:38:32 PM »
Could it be Allegheny?
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Bill McKinley

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #14 on: November 07, 2012, 04:54:51 PM »
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Joe Leenheer

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #15 on: November 08, 2012, 03:38:46 PM »
Yes...Oakmont CC is correct.

There are a few neat things about Oakmont (and by few, I mean everything) including the benches in the locker room which are just classic.  To think some of those spike marks were made by the greatest golfers to ever walk the planet (as well as some non-Oakmont members as well).  There are not many place where you can touch, let alone sit on history like that with out being reprimanded (don't ask me how I know).

The course is pretty nice too.  ;-)
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Bill_McBride

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Re: You had to be there...PART 2
« Reply #16 on: November 08, 2012, 07:00:35 PM »
I recognize the mesh front lockers, which may have arrived in Pittsburg by Conestaga wagon!

My host was really proud of that locker room, and also the "center cut" popcorn and ICL next door in the grill room.  Except for the speed of the greens, it's a very welcoming club!   ;D
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