There’s a whole lot of cool gear within the golf gear world that doesn’t at all times match neatly into Most Needed Exams or Purchaser’s Guides. You continue to wish to know the way it performs. In our We Tried It collection, 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 most recent golf shoe from the Model with Three Stripes. First launched as part of the adidas x Bogey Boys collaboration, the MC80 golf shoe seems to be to develop into a mainstay (dare I say flagship?) mannequin in adidas’s spikeless golf shoe lineup.
Who Tried It:
Connor. Director of Mushy 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 concerning the quantity of golf footwear that present up at my door.
Must Know
Out there now at adidas
Retails at $180
Out there in 4 colours (for now)
Premium leather-based building
BOOST midsole
TORSION bar for added stability
Trendy 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 concerning the adidas MC80 is about as far-off from the Codechaos line as you may get. As a substitute of a polarizing, love-or-hate-it design, the MC80 is simply cool.
I’m an enormous fan of the traditional look, one thing that has been lacking from the adidas golf shoe lineup. Sufficient about how the MC80 seems to be. That’s removed from my favourite factor (oh, the adidas MC80 will get a lot better).
A New Consolation King?
Overlook every part you assume you realize about conventional golf footwear. The adidas MC80 units a brand new commonplace for the 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 significantly gentle and supple. We’re speaking Charmin gentle (sorry, please don’t sue me).
In addition to being gentle and supple, the leather-based higher breaks in superbly as effectively. As with all good leather-based shoe, it begins to crease in a manner that conforms to your foot. To the cow whose high-quality conceal made its manner onto my pair of MC80s … thanks (sorry, PETA).
What’s the one strategy to make me overlook a couple of supple leather-based higher? A BOOST midsole is a reasonably good begin. The MC80 feels superb underfoot due to 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 main points 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 may’t have good traction, can it? That’d be too good to be true, proper?
Improper.
The traction on the adidas MC80 was up there with the highest spikeless golf footwear I’ve examined. In each moist and dry circumstances, I didn’t expertise any slippage. The traction sample is product of a sturdy TPU that has simply sufficient give with out being overly gentle.
Not every part could be excellent, although. Regardless of the improbable 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 might have preferred for the midsection TORSION bar to be slightly stiffer for an added layer of safety towards instability and ankle rolls.
Chief within the Clubhouse
Coloration 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 completely satisfied to report that the gamble paid huge 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.
