Re: The REAL Fiasco at the PGA - Fans wearing Golf Shoes!
Originally Posted by
PooN 
My Puma PG GTX's are the most comfortable shoes I've ever had... golf or otherwise.
I definitely

this. Although I have two pairs of the Adidas Tour 360 LTD's from last year. They are by far the most comfortable shoe I have ever worn. If you consider your golf shoes to be the most uncomfortable and "fugly" shoes you own, then you haven't gotten a good pair yet. Golf shoes are by far one of the most overlooked piece of equipment in the sport. I walk nearly every time I play so a comfortable pair of shoes is super important, the $35.00 Footjoy Greenjoy's I could buy at work are great for the weekend warrior who plays only a few rounds a year, or rides 98% of the time, or is on
that tight of a budget (and I mean absolutely no offense to anyone in that situation, I used to be in it until I found my current shoes :P) But having played both the irish/straits courses out there, I knew spikes were going to be almost mandatory for getting around as a spectator, especially after it rained on wednesday and I wore normal tennis shoes...that was a slip and slide, only not on purpose. It was actually kind of funny, come sunday my friend and I were cutting across a very steep hill where there were probably 15'sh other people sitting at the crest looking down onto 18. I just walk on my toes and just cut right across it, I swear people thought I was defying gravity or something....I just pointed to my shoes and said "spikes :)" whereas my friend in tennis shoes had to scramble in a few places cuz those dunes are pretty gnarly in some spots. Even sitting down to the left side of 11 next to the big trap he was sliding towards/inside the ropes and would have to periodically back up. As someone else said I think it comes down to the geography of the course, "flat" courses like Pinehurst, Pebble Beach, Cog Hill...etc yeah you can just wear any old pair of shoes or flip flops. Up at straits...flip flops would get you killed :P For some reason though, I just find golf shoes to be super comfortable on anything but flat hard surfaces, like the long walk from the tournament to the parking lots, THAT made my knees hurt....but they aren't designed for cement/cartpaths anyway :P