Visiting TRUE Linkswear At The PGA Show 2025

Visiting TRUE Linkswear At The PGA Show 2025

Loyal readers of this blog know of my affection for TRUE Linkswear’s shoes and apparel. Not only are TRUE shoes my principal on-course wear, over the last several years of teaching, they also became my at-work choice. As it turns out, True’s soft, lightweight uppers and flexible, shock-absorbent soles were the perfect formula for standing all day on unforgiving hard tile floors.

I’ve gotten some TRUE shoes free for review; I have purchased a bunch more on my own dime over the years.

It was therefore fun to be able to visit TRUE at the PGA show to put faces to the names of the folk who have sent me so much footwear and apparel over the years for review.

It turns out they are even nicer in person than they are online. I had the pleasure of being invited to hang out with them after hours at the show.

TRUE has a lot of new products coming out this year, furthering their expansion from a “shoe company” to a “full line apparel” company.

Still, the things that most caught my attention were still the shoes:

TRUE’s evolving footwear lineup now includes shoes with traditional spikes, such as the LUX 2 Maven. These will no doubt appeal to TRUE’s staff players, including the recently signed Andrew Putnam.

Putnam, a native of Tacoma, Washington, surely knows about sketchy golf weather. He’s a PGA TOUR winner who joins company co-founder Ryan Moore, Joel Dahmen, Chris Kirk, Mark Hubbard, Taylor Montromery, Oliver Wilson, Dylan Wu, Christina Kim, Madelene Sagstrom and Sophia Popov as tour players donning TRUE gear.

The Lux 2 Maven, to launch this spring features

• TRUE FlexBolt Spiked Outsole
• Flexible, Full-Length Carbon-Fiber Ground Force
• Reaction Plate
• Wanderlux2 High Rebound, Low Compression
• Superfoam Midsole
• Supple, Top Grain Napa Leather Upper
• Waterproof Bootie Construction (2 Year Waterproof Warranty)
• TRUE Breezeway Heel Lock System

Spikeless fans need not worry, though. TRUE has lots of spikeless designs in their current and future catalogs; some with more aggressive treats than others.

For my part, I prefer spikeless designs; I think they are more amenable to walking. Folk with higher swing speeds, however, may prefer spikes.

The OG3 Pro is the latest iteration of the company’s original barefoot platform. I have a pair of the original True shoes from 2010 or therebouts. At that point, they honestly looked a bit like mocassins — especially because my pair was brown. Extremely comfortable moccasins, but moccasins nonetheless. That original pair is in the garage at the cottage in “Up North” Michigan, or I’d show a photo.

In recent years, TRUE shoes have evolved to maintain the same walking comfort with much more stylish looks.

The OG3 Pro is the follow-up to the OG Cush, which I reviewed last year (OG Cush review). The Pro features:

• Wide, cushioned, zero drop construction
• Aggressive new TPU spikeless outsole
• Next generation pebbled engineered leather upper
• Waterproof bootie construction (2-year waterproof warranty)
• Naturally flexible for enhanced comfort and feel
• New, easy-on tongue system for improved entry and exit

The Ascent PNWPROOF is another of TRUE’s shoes designed for “weather.” The PNW is “Pacific Northwest,” so it’s “proof” against the Pacific Northwest weather.

That means it’ll be good to go in Michigan as well.

I like the direction that TRUE’s growing apparel collection is headed. The lines are classic, and the colors earthy: greys, greens, off-white, blues and blacks. The pieces remind me of the outdoor apparel one finds at REI: designed for, and ready for, outdoor adventure. Golf is nothing if not an outdoor adventure, particularly for us walkers.

True branding is tastefully understated on most of the pieces. I can’t stand apparel that turns me into a walking billboard for a designer. The now-iconic “Dead Golfer” logo pieces are a little more obvious, but not by much.

There are of course some hoodies and t-shirts that have some more boldly printed graphics, but one expects that sort of thing on such.

In addition to trousers, TRUE has shorts that boast gussets for mobility, stretch fabric and water resistance. More golf apparel should have gussets — additional fabric sewn along a seam — for mobility without going up a size and adding bagginess. The eight and three quarters inseam is for me (an average size human) a great length for shorts.

Finally, there’s the shoe I am most looking forward to: the OG High. It seems, however, that it won’t be released until later this year, or early next.

The OG High looks like a hiking boot, but is designed for golf. It has a midsole EVA construction and is waterproof.

To me, the OG High looks like absolutely the perfect golf shoe for Michigan in the late winter, early spring, late fall and early winter “shoulder seasons.” Those are times here in Michigan when one never knows exactly what one will find: ground that’s hard as a rock, damp, cold, muddy, or some combination of all three in the same round.

The joke is: if you don’t like Michigan’s weather, wait fifteen minutes, or drive fifteen miles.

In the most unpredictable of weather, I have worn a pair of Oregon Mudders golf shoes, but those are heavy and stiff. The OG High is undoubtedly light and easy to get around in like all TRUE Linkswear shoes.

All of the aforementioned is great, but here’s how I know the TRUE gang is really out to win my heart: They have their own “Pursuit” branded bourbon.

The bourbon is excellent.

I picked up one of their Dead Golfer tumblers to fill out an order last year. As a guy who was born Halloween night, I’m all about the Dead Golfer imagery.

Below, you’ll find a selection of TRUE Linkswear gear I’ve reviewed in the past:

• TRUE Zero Drop OG Cush
• True Linkswear Dead Golfer Hoodie
• TRUE FS-01 Shoe
• TRUE Lux Polo
• TRUE All Day Knit III