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DO YOU MISS METAL SPIKES?

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ROD MORRI

Golf Australia columnist & The Thing About Golf podcast host

Sure, we all loved the sound of metal spikes on concrete. But is sentiment really a trustworthy barometer of what’s good?

Metal spikes might have been great for gripping the ground, but they were even better at ripping it up.

For every whimsical memory of the clack of metal on concrete exists a damaged mower blade from

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