Actually, let me correct myself. I did not meant to say the technology is bad, as I did get the sales guy try to push these to me. He did say a lot of tech was in the shoe.
However, in my opinion, the shoe isn't very well designed. It's designed off of a street shoe concept. Fashion, yet, it does not give me the balance that i look for in my shoes. When i first started golf, I had the Footjoy Contours and they were by far the most comfortable pair of shoes I have ever owned. It props you forward so that you're leaning towards the shot, and the materials were definitely more superior than the pumas. I bought the Nike SP-6 and these are at the same price range as the puma PG GTX, and it by far supercedes the pumas again, with the leather quality and the overall comfort. It's built to provide me a stable stance, and zoom air is wonders on the golf course.
The puma PG GTX is really in essence, a lot of technology (I agree), but not a well thought out shoe. It still has too much inspiration of a street shoe, which is more esthetics than function. I didn't like the soft spike placements on the puma, and had subpar grip on the artifical turf Golftown had in their test range.
For the dollar value, yes, you get goretex, and some other value-added material, but it just didn't do it for me. I hope that's more elaborative on why I didn't think this was a well thought-out GOLF shoe.
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