Since it started designing some of the best golf shoes in 2016, Under Armour has always cast itself as a the 'performance' brand in the market, delivering grip and support through the foot on the golf course. It's a position it should rightly cast itself in with its most recent iterations, including the outgoing Hovr Drive 2 SL, all coming out on top from and out and out performance perspective in our testing.
So, how was the brand going to go about bettering itself in 2024? Well, the all-new Drive Pro SL - and its sister model spiked Drive Pro - have been redesigned from the ground up with extensive help from world renowned biomechanist JJ Rivet as well as the brand’s most high profile Tour player Jordan Spieth. Two years of research and development led to what it's calling a Swing Support System - otherwise known as S3. S3 covers everything from traction and the midsole all the way up to a new lacing system developed by the Under Armour team. It's a comprehensive system, one I'll briefly touch on as I go through this review, but the topline news is that I simply cannot fault the performance and feel of these golf shoes on the course. The S3 system works faultlessly to keep the foot planted on the ground while offering the foot the support it needs to move in the shoe while also supporting it in key areas you need to. It’s a sensation I’ve felt in few spikeless golf shoes like it.
