How many golfers consider their shoe to be a piece of performance equipment like a golf club? Probably not many, but when you consider your shoes are your only points of contact with the ground, it should probably be an investment golfers take more seriously. The rise of more casual, spikeless golf shoes has been a great thing for the game, reintroducing fashion and versatility back into the sport. But are these the right types of shoes to help performance-driven golfers get the most from their games? This was the question Under Armour was asking itself as it went back to the drawing board to design its next family of tour-level shoes – the new Drive Pro and Drive Pro SL.
These shoes have been designed from the ground up, with the brand’s new Swing Support System – known as S3 – the crowning jewel in its new spiked and spikeless shoes. This system has been in development for two years through close work with world-renowned biomechanist JJ Rivet and long-term tour staffer Jordan Spieth and has led the brand to a traction, comfort and lacing system on both its spiked and spikeless shoes that it is rightly very proud of.
