After three years of design and construction, True Linkswear delivers its first foray into spike golf shoes that fit the True pursuit of comfort and performance with the Lux2 Maven and Player models.
The Lux2 models offer tour players and amateurs options for additional traction in a spiked outsole on shoes built to withstand varying weather and course conditions. The Lux2 spiked shoes both feature removable soft spikes in a mountaineering-inspired tread pattern.
“The Lux2 is a performance shoe like we’ve never offered before,” said Jason Moore, co-founder of True Linkswear. “Our roster of Team True tour players has had a really keen interest in seeing what a True Linkswear spiked golf shoe built for the ultra-high-performance athlete would look like. We knew from tour player feedback, this release had to be a comfortable, low profile, flexible, but stable shoe that incorporates a spiked sole that supports their movement when it matters on the golf course.”
The Lux2 Maven ($319) is packed with technology, incorporating an outsole that features “FlexBolt” – a lightning-bolt cutout that provides greater flexibility and enhances lateral loading and stability during the swing while removing a portion of the midsole to help reduce the weight of the overall shoe.
Maven’s flexible carbon-fiber ground force reaction plate, which is used in long-distance running shoes, amplifies each step on the golf course to provide energy return and performance.
“With a stable, low-profile base, that you can actually drive your power into and have it return from the ground, adding the carbon fiber plate adds propulsion to that movement,” Moore said.
The new Wanderlux2 midsole compound is the lightest of its kind, combining increased rebound for greater comfort.
The Lux2 Player ($219) – available in June – is designed to deliver a high-performance, spiked golf shoe that loses none of the comfort in a naturally wide shoe. Its FlexBolt outsole provides stability medially and laterally, but can flex with the foot’s natural movement.
Developed specifically for the Player model, the laminated upper is supple, durable and waterproof.
“A round of golf can be seven miles walking up and down hills, sometimes in wet conditions,” said Moore. “So the mountaineering side of our tread is definitely something that helps you with uphill and downhill ascent as you’re walking.”
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