If Not: Do You Need Golf Shoes?
Two golf shoe things are coming together in my Golf Shoes Blog mind today… One is the fact that some golf clubs (I’ve read about these in The States, not in the UK) are dropping their dress codes. Public courses have been informal for some time but clubs have had dress codes from time immemorial (well since they started 1X0 years ago or so). This code includes golf shoes. They say that people need to just drop in for a game or turn up when they feel like it and the gear including golf shoes stops this. They then say you don’t need golf shoes just trainers.
Two… is the fact that golf shoe makers do make golf shoes without spikes. Look at these FootJoy Spikeless Golf Shoes (Classics Dry Premieres to be precise). I can’t find anything that FootJoy say directly about these spikeless golf shoes. I’d think it were a bit like cutting off your nose to spite your face, to go on about them too much. What about all the other blurb about grip and design torsion and cleats and so on. Someone else* said “Unless you are going to play in the rain, or are prone to slicing and landing in bunkers” you don’t need golf shoes to have spikes. Personally I don’t agree.
But if you do agree, then surely just wear trainers. SO do golf shoes need spikes because if they don’t nedd them [a] then you don’t need golf shoes and [b] no-one will buy them (but they do buy them in the million). Any views out there?
*Apologies, I lost the reference…
