Life is full of mysterious ponderables. Like, why do so many people willingly work in dehumanizing offices that force them to use programs with names like PowerPoint and Excel; why doesn’t anyone every comment on my blog posts?
The greatest mysteries are obviously those that are most difficult to answer.
One thing that has perplexed me for years is why golf footwear is so persistently, so indescribably hideous? The shoes all have incredibly high insteps, thick soles, and impossibly long, beakish looking toes. You would really be hard pressed to make them any uglier. I can’t believe that Nike, or Adidas, or somebody hasn’t done a better job of incorporating good sneaker design into their golf shoes. Puma has made an admirable attempt, but like many Puma sneakers, they are clearly going after the Eurotrash. What? Germany has golfers, too.
There’s a huge gulf to be filled in American golf shoe design. I don’t see any options that would appeal to your average 18 year old golf nerd. For them, it must be a battle, and ultimate resignation, of choosing the option that is least ugly.
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