Wait Until You See What These Golf Shoes Can Do

The year of PAYNTR Golf rolls on.

Another day, another jaw-dropping collab that’s built on the notion that function and form can coexist. Some golf shoes are built for performance. Others are built to turn heads.

The new Students x PAYNTR Golf collaboration somehow manages to do both.

The collection features two completely different shoes, each telling its own story.

The first is the Students by PAYNTR PT, and it has one feature we haven’t seen before.

Built into the shoe is a magnetic, removable ball marker. The idea is simple: collect markers from the courses that mean something to you and swap them in whenever you play. Instead of another logo or flashy design element, your shoes become a scrapbook of the places you’ve been. It’s a clever idea that feels personal rather than gimmicky.

You’d better believe I’ve got a few favorite markers that I’m throwing on here immediately.

The second model, the Students by PAYNTR WT, takes inspiration from childhood trips to aquariums and tide pools. Premium faux stingray leather and textured details create one of the more distinctive golf shoe designs you’ll see this year. Love it or hate it, nobody is going to mistake these for another white leather golf shoe.

Even the packaging gets special treatment.

Each pair arrives inside what’s called The Field Guide to Golf, a collector’s box designed like an old field manual. It’s meant to celebrate the traditions, etiquette and lifelong learning that define the game, tying directly into the collaboration’s theme that golf is something you study.

Whether that message resonates is up to you, but there’s no denying the execution. In a market flooded with retro saddle shoes and predictable tour-inspired designs, this collaboration feels genuinely fresh.

The Students x PAYNTR Golf collection launches today.