The Best Golf Shoes at the Wyndham Championship
The 2021-2022 PGA Tour season is winding down, but the golf shoe game is just starting to heat up! This week my golf shoe endeavors took me (virtually) to the Wyndham Championship, where a few players caught my attention right from the jump.
Let’s just say I was very impressed with the amount of note-worthy shoes this week considering the strength of the field. If it were up to me, each of the golfers on this list would earn enough Fedex Cup points for their shoes alone to put them into the the Top-125.
Maybe one day I’ll have that kind of pull. I need some Tour guy giving out post-round interviews about how he was more worried about making the Spy Kicks top 5 instead of actually playing decent golf!
Here are the best golf shoes I saw this week at the Wyndham Championship in North Carolina.
Harold Varner III in the French Blue Air Jordan 12 Low G
Technically we can call the French Blue Air Jordan 12 Low G and unreleased shoe because it’s not yet available at retail. The keyword being “yet.” In all of my research my findings have been consistent: this shoe will most likely get a general release to the public on August 12 with a retail price of $220. Sneakerheads rejoice! Anytime a shoe this sweet makes its way to retail, you know the Golf Gods are blessing us for some reason or another.
Too often we see players wearing unreleased colorways or models with no hopes of them ever making their way to the general population. In fact, last week I wrote about a different color of the Air Jordan 12 Low G that was spotted at the Rocket Mortgage, and we still haven’t heard any more details on that specific pair.
I will say this, if Varner is wearing it, I want it. That man wears nothing but heat! Give me every shoe we’ve seen HV-3 in over the last year or two, and I’ll be set for life.
Kevin Chappell in the Air Jordan 1 Low G Wolf Grey
Are you tired of the Air Jordan 1 Low G yet? You know I’m not, especially because Kevin Chappell was spotted in one of the more rare pairs, the Wolf Grey variant. Funny story: when NIKE released the first three colors of the Air Jordan 1 Low G, I got up early that Saturday morning to try my luck at my local Golf Galaxy. I just missed out on grabbing the Wolf Grey pair, but was lucky enough to find the Shadow pair in my size.
You couldn’t find the Wolf Grey Air Jordan 1 Low G anywhere, and I think I know why. The shoe and colorway is eerily similar to that of the Air Jordan 1 Dior, a shoe that fetches a pretty penny on the resale market. Why spend the money to design a new color when you can use similar color-blocking and sell out of every pair?
If anyone has a pair in a size 11 or 11.5 and wants to give me the hookup for retail, I’d have a hard time saying no! Maybe Kevin and I are the same size?
Matthew NeSmith in the NIKE Air Zoom Infinity Tour NXT%
I love bright colors, especially when it comes to golf footwear. Tour pros love to stick with white shoes, which is almost too boring to bear. You mean to tell me that you have access to any shoe, any color that (insert shoe brand) makes, and you chose to go with a plain white shoe? That’s why I’m giving props to Matthew NeSmith this week for his sick pair of the NIKE Air Zoom Infinity Tour NXT%.
The neon blue and pink are giving me some serious Miami Vice vibes that I’m really digging. I’m all about finding those seldom worn colorways and giving them they love they deserve. Life is too short to pick the boring pair of golf shoes…NeSmith definitely has the right idea here.
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Mackenzie Hughes in the FootJoy Tour Alpha
FootJoy claims that the Tour Alpha contains the most advanced stability system they’ve ever created…but who really cares about stability when the shoe looks this cool? Something about the Tour Alpha from FootJoy just looks so futuristic.
Okay, I know plenty of you (Mackenzie included) care about performance, so here’s your plug: the FootJoy Tour Alpha was MyGolfSpy’s best spiked golf shoe of 2022. Killer looks and killer performance? These aren’t your dad’s saddle-style FootJoys of old…when FootJoy puts out something like the Tour Alpha, you know they mean business.
Should I grab a pair and give them a go? Never been much of a FootJoy guy, but I could see myself getting along with these really well!
Rickie Fowler in the PUMA IGNITE Articulate
You probably saw that Rickie Fowler switched back to his trusty Scotty Cameron putter this last week, but he also made a shoe switch. Today was the first time that I saw Fowler wearing something other than the PUMA PROADAPT Alphacat. I just wrote 100 words to rant and rave about how cool Fowler’s custom pair was last week, and this week he just throws a wrench in things by breaking out a totally different model, the PUMA IGNITE Articulate.
Look, I wouldn’t write about Fowler so much if he wasn’t giving me so much good content. You really don’t see Tour players switch shoes during a season so that fact that Fowler decided to give this pair a go must be a testament to how good they are, right? Or, he’s just looking for something to spark a good finish to the Wyndham Championship to get him off of the bubble and solidify his spot in the FedEx Cup Playoffs.
That’s a Wrap
Thanks for joining me today on this journey through the ever-changing world of golf shoes out on Tour. Did you have a favorite pair? Be sure to let me know down below. And, if you’d like, you can send me some photos of what you’re rocking on course this week over on Instagram.
Tip for the day: clean your shoes like you clean your clubs. If you want consistent performance out of your wedges, you clean the groove between shots, right? Doing the same for your golf shoes can promote more consistent traction across the board.
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