We can underestimate how essential golf shoes can be for our game and our general health and wellbeing.
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What shoe brand do you recommend
Interesting information. Its been my experience that just like other shoes, golf shoes have different levels of quality for as you say taking the unique forces of golf. I have personally found non-golf shoes in the cross trainer design have the same if not better stability laterally than golf shoes without sacrificing support or longitudinal stability and come in many more options to fit comfortably and affordably. In terms of turf grip there are also several options. They also come in water proof to breathable designs suiting different conditions on the course and folks can usually afford the higher quality options vs. mid to low quality golf branded shoes. You also did not discuss shoes in terms of the type of golfer. I would argue that golfers that walk the course need shoes designed for walking comfortably to optimize injury prevention and reduce fatigue. Golf is exercise to me, I walk. This can be 6-7 miles of walking for 18 holes. Cart riders frankly can use a very stiff spiky shoe in comparison, as all they do is ride to the ball location and need the shoe primarily for the swing stability. The last thing that might be considered is the ability to release pressure especially on the lead foot. Spiky shoes may not be the best option especially for those with previous injury (and there are a lot of us). The torque on the hip, knee and ankle in particular can be damaging with no release especially in individuals that already have previous injury to those areas. Many pro golfers have suffered injury because of this and have learned to release, lifting the ball of the foot and pivoting on the heal. So the ability to have some grip to the surface but release the lead foot after contact to rotate toward the target is important especially in the driver swing. Without that you will see golfers open the lead foot at address to avoid pain or injury but changes swing mechanics before ball contact.. Now I would agree from a swing performance standpoint that less traction for ease of release is not optimal for distance or even control, but to prevent further injury and to swing pain free typically is better. And lets face it, most of us are not pros competing for a couple million each round willing to look like Tiger in our 40s.. Optimize for longevity and sacrifice some swing performance to continue enjoying the game for years to come. I am also not a pediatrist but I play golf weekly and do have some human performance and biomechanics experience. Most importantly, I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express. 🙂
Just picked up a pair of the Adidas Tour 360's a few days back, night and day difference over the cheap Slazenger shoes I've played since I started playing. Had my lesson too, opened my eyes to some swing flaws. My grip was too much in the palm even though it was something I was consciously trying to work on and where I thought I had a problem with a slice, actually he said my left to right trajectory was likely caused by too much of an in to out path with an open face. So close to breaking 100, if I didn't have a couple of blow up holes like 8's n 9's per round I'd have broke 100 this week.