Why do golfers buy white shoes?

[oleinone]

My golfing circle of players comes to about 15 in total. I think that the majority favour white shoes. White is something of a misnomer. Without exception the shoes have become a grubby mess of ingrained muck. If you are playing in a climate where mud is a given, why buy white shoes?
For info, I have a pair of brown FJ Stratos that I have just cleaned and treated and they have come up just like new.
PS I played yesterday in a cool damp breeze which was slowly beginning to make me feel chilly. One press of the button on my heated gilet - toasty.

 

[Orikoru]

Black shoes look absolutely awful with shorts. Granted you're not often wearing shorts in winter, but when in Spring or Autumn it could be damp from rain (so you want your waterproof winter shoes on) but you want to wear shorts because the temperature is fine, so you need white ones really. That's why I always get white ones now anyway.

 

[theoneandonly]

I get around this by owning several pairs of shoes.

 

[Jensen]

I ALWAYS buy black, because of the reason you state.
In terms of wearing with shorts, not an issue black is a neutral colour and goes with anything!!!! Blue shorts certainly look better with black than white ?

 

[Deleted member 1147]

I got the grey Adidas Code Chaos shoes - best of both worlds.
They're light enough colour, and wipe off dirt easily.

 

[Tashyboy]

I have some white ECCO shoes. Goretex and Yak leather. After every round they get a clean and re seal. They still look well and feel like carpet slippers. Look at most young uns and they wear white trainers. The colour just transfers to golf And clothing. Re most of your mates shoes, have a look at there gear as well. The fiddle I play golf with, a similar number to yours. The lads that keep there shoes clean, keep there gear clean as well

 

[Blue in Munich]

I ALWAYS buy black, because of the reason you state.
In terms of wearing with shorts, not an issue black is a neutral colour and goes with anything!!!! Blue shorts certainly look better with black than white ?

They go with anything, other than the white socks that are worn with shorts.

 

[rulefan]

Please don't wear shorts with black socks and shoes. Yuck.

 

[HomerJSimpson]

18 pairs of shoes of various colours is the future. Plenty of darker colours for winter golf and more white based colourful designs for the summer

 

[Orikoru]

I ALWAYS buy black, because of the reason you state.
In terms of wearing with shorts, not an issue black is a neutral colour and goes with anything!!!! Blue shorts certainly look better with black than white ?

Nah, honestly, when I had plain black shoes before and then wore them with white socks and shorts it looked like I was wearing school shoes. Angus Young springs to mind.

 

[IanM]

Black Dryjoys in the winter.

White spikeless on the summer.

Its in the Rules.

 

[Backsticks]

Sporting Whites tradition legacy, like cricket or athletics.
Golf attire and colours went down a wormhole of bad taste with men wearing pink and yellow shirts or whatever and white trousers and so on. Transpose to the real world and its hideousness is exposed fully. The bright blue panels on midlayers, windshirts, and waterproofs has become an obscene and embarrassing golfing cliche.
White shoes are low grade offenders in comparison.

 

[pokerjoke]

Purely because white goes with all coloured clothes

 

[need_my_wedge]

I just don't like black shoes. I do have an old pair of black Tour360's that I use when it's really muddy, otherwise it's white with primarily a blue or yellow accent.

Sporting Whites tradition legacy, like cricket or athletics.
Golf attire and colours went down a wormhole of bad taste with men wearing pink and yellow shirts or whatever and white trousers and so on. Transpose to the real world and its hideousness is exposed fully. The bright blue panels on midlayers, windshirts, and waterproofs has become an obscene and embarrassing golfing cliche.
White shoes are low grade offenders in comparison.

No problem at all with yellow shirts, or pink if it comes to that. I'm not good enough for white trousers, but don't really care if you want to wear them. I don't really understand what you mean here though

Transpose to the real world and its hideousness is exposed fully. The bright blue panels on midlayers, windshirts, and waterproofs has become an obscene and embarrassing golfing cliche.

Not sure about colours, but I don't like some of the designs with panels on so don't buy or wear them. Even then, not sure how that has become an "obscene and embarrassing golfing cliche" though?

 

[Bamberdele21]

Got a few pairs

Will wear my white ones 90% of time during summer. Goes with pretty much everything I wear, mainly shorts.

 

[RichA]

I've got 4 pairs.
Grey and blue for summer.
White Footjoy and Puma for winter.
The white ones are easier to clean because you can see where the mud is.

 

[rksquire]

I always think black golf shoes looks like you've just nipped out to play golf wearing your work shoes - and is particularly odd if wearing shorts! Some of the more recent 'summer' golf shoes look more like trainers, think these are passable but clumpy golf shoes should be white!

 

[HarrogateHacker]

Black Dryjoys in the winter.

White spikeless on the summer.

Its in the Rules.

that is my set up too

 

[IanM]

With white shoes, sticking the laces in the washing machine makes a big difference.

 

[HeftyHacker]

Blue shorts certainly look better with black than white ?

They don't. they just don't.