Adidas Samba OG Spikeless Golf LE 'White Black Gum'
Colorway: Cloud White/Core Black/Gum · Style code: HP7879 · Release date: November 3, 2022 · Price: $89 · Availability: Available now
Take the most familiar Samba colourway and put a golf outsole under it, and this is the result. adidas lists Cloud White, Core Black and Gum, and the upper is leather, the sensible material for a shoe that will spend its working life on wet grass. Spikeless construction means moulded traction rather than removable cleats, which keeps the pair wearable off the course and avoids the damage a spiked sole does to a green. The LE designation marks it as a limited make inside the golf range.
It released on 3 November 2022 at 120 dollars in the United States, twenty above the standard adult Samba OG and the same figure adidas charged for the pale blue golf version that came out six weeks earlier. Golf has been one of the more successful extensions this model has been given, and the reason is structural rather than cosmetic. The Samba's last is flat, wide through the forefoot and very stable, which is close to what a golfer wants when standing over a ball. The shoe was built for firm indoor pitches, a surface asking for a similar kind of grounded footing, so the translation needed a new outsole and very little else.