They are the golf shoe equivalent of wearing pants versus shorts, tie versus no tie, or tuxedo versus sports coat. The shoes really are casual… I wouldn’t wear them for a round at Augusta National or Muirfield. I personally like the look of the shoes, but others have held nothing back when telling me they don’t like the look. Opinions on the style of the shoes seem to lie on the far ends of the spectrum. The saddle and seams of the shoe are perfectly watertight, although moisture seems to sneak in through the laces and tongue more than my FootJoy Classics, likely because of the looser, “relaxed” fit. Prior to writing this review, I took the shoes into a bathtub to give them the full test. My number of rounds in the rain has been cut drastically since moving back to the US from Scotland, but as any golfer who loves early morning tee times will know, dewy grass can soak shoes just as quickly as a rain storm. My second concern with the shoes was the waterproofness. My brother pointed out during one of our recent rounds that the spikeless shoes still leave “spike” (pip?) marks in wet or soft greens – clearly something is gripping the turf. I have found the spikeless shoes to provide great stability and have had very minimal problems with slipping. I had never worn a spikeless shoe before, and was concerned about slipping in wet conditions or in bunkers. My first concern with the FootJoy Contour Casual shoe was the stability provided by the DuraMax rubber outsole. I slipped the shoes on just before walking to the first tee, and I was walking on a cloud the rest of the day. The uncomfortable “break in” period found with my Classics was non-existent. I shelled out a skeptical $90 for this pair of waterproof golf shoes, and I was immediately impressed. It took forgetting my FootJoy Classics on a golf trip to play Boone Golf Club to make me break down and buy a pair of the FootJoy Contour Casuals. I considered my high school pair of Adidas Tour 360 shoes to be a radical departure from the my typical line of FootJoy Classics. Combine that devotion to traditional golf shoes with four years of rainy links golf in St Andrews, Scotland, and you can imagine my skepticism of casual, spikeless shoes, many of which are not waterproof. I have always been a fan of “classic” style golf shoes.
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