Adidas' Codechaos shoe is a real 'if you know, you know' shoe. If I see people wearing a pair, I know they know ball. The three previous iterations of the franchise have perfectly encapsulated everything about the best adidas golf shoes, combining high levels of performance, genuine comfort and a more esoteric design language that never crossed over into silliness. The fourth generation 2027 version has arrived with a lot to live up to.
Taking them out of the box, I couldn't help but feel that the design language has gone back into its shell. On previous iterations - namely the Codechaos 23 - we've seen outsole nubs bleeding onto the upper and patterns and materials that evoked the sort of chaos that the name demands.
