I just bought myself a pair of Lotto turf shoes. The shoe has a uniform sole with 85 studs, all of equal length at about 6mm. They're very light and I find them very comfortable (YMMV on this one). The sole has a slight slope to it. The multitude of golf shoes I've seen anywhere have either a high heel, a heavily sloped sole or both. Few are comfortable to any degree let alone for 5 hours of walking on grass.
The Lotto shoes I bought is a football boot. In America, we call that sport soccer for some reason. Anyway I don't see why I'd have a problem with them except perhaps because of the cleats for some reason. Even then I checked my golf shoes' cleats and those are about 12mm and much fewer in number. If there's an argument about how much my soccer shoes can damage the greens, I'll try the reasonable physics argument.
My golf shoes have 7 removable cleats, each with 6 individual cleats. They have very little cleat profile elsewhere so the brunt of the weight will rest on those 42 individual cleats. I weigh about 200 so that would come up to about 4.7lbs per cleat.
My soccer shoes have 85 cleats and all are in contact with the ground. They are also shorter than my golf shoes' cleats so they wouldn't dig in as deeply in any case. For the same weight, each cleat would be loaded with about 2.3lbs. About half that of my golf shoes. A much better weight distribution across twice the number of cleats, don't you think? It would reduce any potential damage I could do to any golf green.
An argument that those shoes could damage the greens more than "golf" shoes has no weight, so to speak.
My golf shoes: 4.7lbs per cleat.
My futbol boots: 2.3lbs per cleat.
Now this discussion would take quite a different turn if my soccer shoes were 6 stud Copa's.
Do you play with cleated shoes not intended for golf and what problem, if any, have you encountered at the clubs you play at?
The Lotto shoes I bought is a football boot. In America, we call that sport soccer for some reason. Anyway I don't see why I'd have a problem with them except perhaps because of the cleats for some reason. Even then I checked my golf shoes' cleats and those are about 12mm and much fewer in number. If there's an argument about how much my soccer shoes can damage the greens, I'll try the reasonable physics argument.
My golf shoes have 7 removable cleats, each with 6 individual cleats. They have very little cleat profile elsewhere so the brunt of the weight will rest on those 42 individual cleats. I weigh about 200 so that would come up to about 4.7lbs per cleat.
My soccer shoes have 85 cleats and all are in contact with the ground. They are also shorter than my golf shoes' cleats so they wouldn't dig in as deeply in any case. For the same weight, each cleat would be loaded with about 2.3lbs. About half that of my golf shoes. A much better weight distribution across twice the number of cleats, don't you think? It would reduce any potential damage I could do to any golf green.
An argument that those shoes could damage the greens more than "golf" shoes has no weight, so to speak.
My golf shoes: 4.7lbs per cleat.
My futbol boots: 2.3lbs per cleat.
Now this discussion would take quite a different turn if my soccer shoes were 6 stud Copa's.
Do you play with cleated shoes not intended for golf and what problem, if any, have you encountered at the clubs you play at?
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