Mante2
Newbie
Having seen Freddie Couples and others using trendier spikeless shoes I wondered how they would manage over here in what has been a wet summer.
I bought the Footjoy Contour shoes in a fetching brown with a tasteful splash of orange around the soles. The weather was pretty dire with puddles appearing on the fairways and gereens so I wasn't too hopeful.
The first surprise was on the very first tee when I felt totally anchored on the tee shot. A couple of holes later and a couple of my playing partners were struggling to clean the soles for their shoes with the soft spikes being clogged with mud and grass, but absolutely no problem with mine. I carried on for the whole round and though the outside looked to be getting damp nothing soaked through to my socks, and boy did they feel comfortable.
A week or so later and the course was dry and the fairways closely mown and the shoes went out for a dry round and they were fabulous, so comfortable and lightweight almost like slippers.
I can't fault them apart perhaps from letting me get even lazier and driving to and from the course wearing them!
So good in the wet and good in the dry. But I suspect not so good when it gets icy, but I'll know that in about 4 months time.
I bought the Footjoy Contour shoes in a fetching brown with a tasteful splash of orange around the soles. The weather was pretty dire with puddles appearing on the fairways and gereens so I wasn't too hopeful.
The first surprise was on the very first tee when I felt totally anchored on the tee shot. A couple of holes later and a couple of my playing partners were struggling to clean the soles for their shoes with the soft spikes being clogged with mud and grass, but absolutely no problem with mine. I carried on for the whole round and though the outside looked to be getting damp nothing soaked through to my socks, and boy did they feel comfortable.
A week or so later and the course was dry and the fairways closely mown and the shoes went out for a dry round and they were fabulous, so comfortable and lightweight almost like slippers.
I can't fault them apart perhaps from letting me get even lazier and driving to and from the course wearing them!
So good in the wet and good in the dry. But I suspect not so good when it gets icy, but I'll know that in about 4 months time.
