When Jason Day appeared at last year’s Masters in a pair of as-then-unreleased Payntr golf shoes, my interest was piqued. Up to now, Panytr’s Tour presence has been rather understated with the brand instead of focussing its investments on R&D as a fairly new player. Until today, that decision has been working in Payntr's favor and the brand, young though it is, has been developing some of the best golf shoes that go toe-to-toe (pardon the pun) with golf shoe brands twice its size.
With Jason Day on board, however, the brand has taken everything up a notch with the introduction of the Eight Seven SC. The Eighty Seven is named as such as it’s the Australian’s lucky number and you’ll notice the perforated section around the heel and tongue is made up of 87 holes specifically. A small detail though this is, it tells the story of a golf shoe where every minor detail has been carefully considered. Day was walking into a manufacturer already renowned for making high-level performance shoes like the Payntr X 004 RS and X 003 F spikeless and the Eighty Seven SC has built on what was already a platform designed for elite performance.
