For golfers, the inconvenience of replacing metal spikes in golf shoes will be offset by improved course conditions, Reicher says. "Traditional golf shoes leave spike marks. Late in the day, the ...

And so the spiked golf shoe was born. Although today’s spikes – or ‘cleats’ for our American readers – are unrecognisable from those of the past and they are now soft plastic rather than ...

The shoe features a robust composite plate that serves dual roles as a spike plate and a biomechanical lever. Its stiff, ...

Question: I went to a PGA Tour event recently and swore I heard the crunch of metal spikes when some players walked across the cart paths. Weren't metal spikes banned a long time ago? Answer ...

In the late 1890s a British company called J.W. Foster and Sons (now known as Reebok) developed some of the earliest known running shoes with spikes in them. The company's founder, Joseph William ...

Top Japanese sprinter Yoshihide Kiryu scoffed when he first saw Asics Corp.'s spikeless track shoes, featuring a honeycombed carbon fiber outer sole, eschewing metal spikes. “Did you really ...