Golfers spend hours and thousands of dollars ensuring their golf clubs and ball are perfectly dialed. So, why don’t they devote the same care and thought to a piece of equipment they use on every single shot?
We’re talking about your golf shoes.
On this week’s episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped, co-host Jake Morrow sat down with Arccos CEO Sal Syed and discussed the possibility that the shot-tracking app could soon be able to offer you analytical guidance on which type of shoes you perform best in.
“Consciously or subconsciously, there’s a performance angle to everything in golf, which I actually didn’t recognize, either,” Syed said.
That could mean your choice of outerwear, pants or, yes, shoes — with the Arccos app potentially tracking if a piece of apparel is affecting your game.
Syed said he tested five rounds using spiked shoes versus five rounds with spikeless shoes. In the spiked shoes, he said, he saw an 0.8 strokes-gained improvement in his driving.
“They’re less comfortable with some of the other cushiony shoes that I wear, but I always put them on when I know I have to perform,” he said.
Being able to isolate strokes gained for golf shoes isn’t yet a feature Arccos has made available, but it shows the possibilities for the technology. It also show how something seemingly as insignificant as shoe choice can, in fact, make a difference in your game.
For more from Morrow and Syed, listen to the full episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped here, or watch it below.
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