Walk Right Golf Shoes: Update News

I said I’d Find These Golf Shoes…

A few days ago I got excited about the idea that there were some new golf shoes and I did see a picture of some new sole design.  They were definitely called WALK RIGHT and they said they were being launched this month. So I’m on the trail…

First stop www.walk-right.com a site from Mark Farid, (C.Ped.), owner & operator of Walk Right who is a Board Certified Pedorthist with an engineering background.  But no sign of the golf shoes – just offers of foot treatment.

Second & Third & Fourth stops: Walk Rite – kids shoes in New Jersey. Walk Right Shoes Ohio. Shoe shop refits in Clacton & Banbury UK.

Getting nowhere fast… Then more luck, deep in a search was a new online article with the picture that I’d seen.  I just made out the name on the shoe – APOS and from there I was more lucky. I waded through article to artcicle about how modern feet need animal action (vs. sitting at desks and walking on flat surfaces) and learnéd (and analytical) orthopaedics until I could put some meat on the bone… so to speak.

The shoes that result from all the research and development are the APOS footwear system, that “involves the use of semispherical, individually calibrated bio-mechanical units that are placed on the soles of the shoes at the hindfoot and forefoot”. (Called APOS from All Phases of Step Cycle.)  But now the bad news, their website is in Hebrew (I can’t find a translate button) and worse it seems that there is no shoe as such because it’s a kind of measurement, custom fit process (that cost thousands).  This may be of interest to you if you need this type of shoe/treatment but there doesn’t seem to be  golf shoe in sight.  How did I get in this blind alley?

It’s because in the article that I’d read in The Mail Online (shoes save operation?) the guy who was reviewing them was playing golf in them.   An honest mistake.  But maybe they’ll start to promote them as golf shoes for the bone-needy.