FootJoy Golf Shoes: Nothing But The Best
Posted on Tue, Jan 17, 2012 @ 08:27 AM
It was back in the late 1960's and I was playing in the Scottish Boys Championship at North Berwick. I reached the quarter finals, much against expectation and did so wearing a pair of rubber waterproof golf shoes. It did not seem to bother me much in the earlier rounds wearing these, but I was going to soon be under the glare of publicity over the weekend and my parents were kind enough to offer to buy a new pair, prior to my big day.
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I went into David Huish's Golf Shop, that is like a sunken bunker next to the first tee at that great course. That's when I first saw them. Before me, a wondrous display of FootJoy Golf Shoes. I really wanted the Classics. These FootJoy shoes were heavy by todays standards, with leather soles that needed oiling regularly and fitted with metal spikes. The pair I lusted after was in red/white and blue patent shiny leather. The cost of these shoes was, however, way beyond our agreed budget and I left with a more reasonably priced pair. I didn’t reach the final by the way. Coincidence..maybe? Just saying.
These Classic FootJoy Golf Shoes remained on my wish list and having won the East Kilbride club championship later in the year, a pair of these wonderful iconic Footjoy Golf Shoes were ordered. They were, at the time, pretty expensive. They lasted me over eight years and it was a sorry day when I let them go to the great FootJoy Shoe heaven in the sky. Maybe one of the saints tried them for a game or two--should you believe in that kind of thing.
FootJoy Golf Shoes have been the leading brand of golf shoe for many years now with great players striding famous fairways in beautifully designed and wearable shoes.
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Padraig Harrington at the seventeenth at Royal Birkdale looked so stable in his FootJoy Golf Shoes as he hit one of the best five woods ever to ten feet and onward to victory.
Louis Oosthuizen hit a fabulous driver to twenty feet at the ninth on The Old Course. He sunk the putt in his FootJoy Golf Shoes on his way to an emphatic victory in The Open at St Andrews.
Rory was comfortable and very stylish as he won The US Open wearing his FootJoy Golf Shoes.
Tom Lehman won The Charles Schwab Cup having had a great year on the senior tour again wearing FootJoy Golf Shoes.
As you can see, there are many stories of players winning in FootJoy Golf Shoes and it is no coincidence that they remain to date the leading brand of shoe across the golf tours of the world.
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You can find me still wearing my beloved FootJoy's.
-Nigel
