Photo caption Many golfers are replacing the metal cleats in their golf shoes with nonmetal or alternative cleats, like the ones shown here. More than 1,500 U.S. golf courses have banned metal spikes ...

As for the number of players still using metal spikes at the professional level, it's roughly 15 percent of the field during a given tournament week. That's not a significant number. As you might ...

Metal spikes continue to have a presence on the PGA Tour. GOLF's Jonathan Wall discusses the topic in the latest Fully Equipped mailbag.

In all, about 80 of the 2- to 3-foot-long spikes have been found, some with a U-shaped bend at the end. On Friday, divers also began to speculate that the spikes had been used for weed control.

Earlier this month, someone tweeted a picture of a series of metal spikes built into the ground outside a London apartment building. It has been encouraging to see the outrage over the London ...