Kith x adidas Samba Spikeless Golf 'White Gum'
Colorway: White Tint/Gum · Style code: IG5709 · Release date: August 7, 2023 · Price: $348 · Availability: Available now
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White leather over gum is the Samba's most familiar dress, and that is precisely why it works on a golf shoe. This Kith version uses the spikeless build, where moulded traction replaces removable cleats, under an upper adidas lists as White Tint with Gum. Leather is the giveaway that the pair is meant for a course rather than a pavement: it wipes down after a wet round in a way suede never would. Everything above the sole holds the model's proportions, so the shoe passes for a standard Samba until it is turned over.
It released on 7 August 2023 at 130 dollars in the United States. Ronnie Fieg, who founded Kith, had been working with adidas across several lines by then, and golf was one of the odder places that partnership went. The colour choice is the tell. Rather than treat a golf release as licence for something garish, Kith picked the most conservative scheme in the model's history and let the category supply the surprise. Buyers split accordingly: golfers got a course shoe with no visible sports-equipment styling, and everyone else got a white leather Samba with unusually good grip on wet ground.