There may be lots of cool gear within the golf tools world that doesn’t all the time match neatly into Most Wished Exams or Purchaser’s Guides. You continue to need to know the way it performs. In our We Tried It sequence, we put gear to the take a look at and allow you to know if it really works as marketed.

What We Tried:

The adidas MC80, the latest golf shoe from the Model with Three Stripes. First launched as part of the adidas x Bogey Boys collaboration, the MC80 golf shoe appears to grow to be a mainstay (dare I say flagship?) mannequin in adidas’s spikeless golf shoe lineup.

Who Tried It:

Connor. Director of Smooth Items Testing and resident sneakerhead. I consider golf is best with a pair of cool footwear and cozy joggers. My neighbors are beginning to get involved in regards to the quantity of golf footwear that present up at my door.

Must Know

• Obtainable now at adidas
• Retails at $180
• Obtainable in 4 colours (for now)
• Premium leather-based building
• BOOST midsole
• TORSION bar for added stability

Fashionable Magnificence

First impressions are every part. The MC80 is a far departure from the prototypical adidas golf shoe. It’s conventional but sporty. The whole lot in regards to the adidas MC80 is about as far-off from the Codechaos line as you will get. As a substitute of a polarizing, love-or-hate-it design, the MC80 is simply cool.

I’m an enormous fan of the basic look, one thing that has been lacking from the adidas golf shoe lineup. Sufficient about how the MC80 appears. That’s removed from my favourite factor (oh, the adidas MC80 will get a lot better).

A New Consolation King?

Neglect every part you assume about conventional golf footwear. The adidas MC80 units a brand new customary for a way a classic-looking golf shoe ought to really feel.

Let’s begin with the higher. There’s not a lot I wouldn’t do for a leather-based higher just like the one discovered on the MC80. It’s critically smooth and supple. We’re speaking Charmin smooth (sorry, please don’t sue me).

In addition to being smooth and supple, the leather-based higher breaks in fantastically as nicely. As with all good leather-based shoe, it begins to crease in a method that conforms to your foot. To the cow whose nice cover made its method onto my pair of MC80s … thanks (sorry, PETA).

What’s the one option to make me overlook a couple of supple leather-based higher? A BOOST midsole is a fairly good begin. The MC80 feels wonderful underfoot because of the BOOST pucks within the forefoot and heel areas. These could be seen via teeny-tiny home windows within the outsole (not that you just have been questioning, and even care, however these are the small print I like to see).

The mix of the springy BOOST and the included INSITE sockliner (which may be very comfy by itself) make for a heavenly strolling expertise. Fatigue? By no means heard of her.

Traction and Torsion

Positive, it’s comfy … however it could actually’t have good traction, can it? That’d be too good to be true, proper?

Mistaken.

The traction on the adidas MC80 was up there with the highest spikeless golf footwear I’ve examined. In each moist and dry situations, I didn’t expertise any slippage. The traction sample is made from a sturdy TPU that has simply sufficient give with out being overly smooth.

Not every part could be good, although. Regardless of the unbelievable spikeless traction efficiency, I discovered that the added TORSION system didn’t add sufficient stability for my liking. I nonetheless skilled some twisting of the shoe when making a full swing. I’d have favored for the midsection TORSION bar to be just a little stiffer for an added layer of safety towards instability and ankle rolls.

Chief within the Clubhouse

Colour me impressed. adidas went out on a limb with the MC80; a traditional-style golf shoe is fairly far out of their wheelhouse. I’m blissful to report that the gamble paid massive efficiency dividends.

For my cash, the adidas MC80 is each bit nearly as good as the highest spikeless golf footwear available on the market and it darned certain earned a spot in my golf shoe rotation. My emotions are that it ought to earn one in yours, too.