ASICS GEL-ACE PRO M Standard Golf Shoes

ASICS GEL-ACE PRO M Commonplace Golf Sneakers – Key Takeaways

• Hideki Matsuyama’s shoe involves North America.
• Light-weight spiked shoe with waterproof artificial higher
• Two colorways: white with black trim and black with pure silver trim
• $199.99. Obtainable beginning at present.

The brand new ASICS GEL-ACE PRO M Commonplace golf shoe is, to place it kindly, a mouthful. It additionally represents a number of firsts for the ASICS-Srixon North American partnership.

The primary first? It’s ASICS’ first PGA TOUR-validated shoe launched to the North American market. Yep, these are Hideki’s sneakers.

The second first: it’s the primary product launched underneath the brand new Dunlop Sports activities Americas umbrella. Dunlop Sports activities is the brand new North American subsidiary of Sumitomo Rubber Industries.

And the third first is that the ASICS GEL-ACE PRO M Standard is the primary ASICS golf providing in North America that maybe-kinda-sorta might be thought of a “conventional” fashion golf shoe. It’s no modified wing-tip, but it surely’s undoubtedly not an athletic-style golf shoe, both.

And, not for nothing, it might very effectively be the most effective golf shoe ASICS has launched in North America. Given ASICS’ middle-of-the-road performance in our Purchaser’s Guides, which will sound like a left-handed praise. However after two rounds, we will safely say this can be a beginning lineup-level piece of footwear.

ASICS GEL-ACE PRO M Commonplace: Conventional?

It might be a stretch to name any ASICS golf shoe “conventional.” Till now, the ASICS North American lineup has had the identical appear and feel as ASICS trainers. That’s not a foul factor should you like athletic-looking sneakers.

And “conventional” is, undoubtedly, within the eye of the beholder.

However the GEL-ACE PRO M Standard (critically ASICS, can we shorten the identify?), whereas carrying loads of ASICS DNA, does no less than resemble a conventional golf shoe. No less than it’s traditional-enough in search of Hideki Matsuyama.

Whereas the remainder of the ASICS lineup encompasses a mesh-type higher with a water-proof polyurethane coating, the GEL-ACE PRO M Commonplace has a gentle, waterproof artificial leather-based higher. It’s a lot cleaner and fewer busy-looking than the remainder of the ASICS lineup. Even the ASICS emblem is modest. Comparatively.

A Golf-Particular Trusstic™

ASICS says the GEL-ACE PRO M Standard is designed for really feel and stability. To that finish it encompasses a golf-specific iteration of a proprietary ASICS expertise: the Trusstic™.

Simply what, pray inform, is a Trusstic?

Properly, the basis of the phrase ought to offer you an thought.

Developed by the ASICS Institute of Sports activities Science, the Trusstic™ is sports-specific carbon-reinforced assist within the arch of the shoe. It’s a truss on your arch. In response to ASICS, Trusstic™ shapes are designed to strengthen the center of the shoe for enhanced assist and lowered twisting, primarily based on a sport’s distinctive movement traits.

A tennis Trusstic™, for instance, could be very completely different from a basketball Trusstic™. The golf-specific Trusstic™ within the GEL-ACE PRO M Commonplace is an X-shaped assist extending from the rearfoot to the forefoot. I’ve discovered ASICS spikeless sneakers missing in arch assist (inserts have been a should) however give Trusstic™ its due. It gives loads of stability and eliminates the necessity for an arch assist insert.

Nevertheless, you pay for that added stability and assist with weight. To offset that, the GEL-ACE PRO M Commonplace makes use of ASICS’ patented FlyteFoam® midsole. In response to ASICS, it’s 55-percent lighter than the trade customary ethylene-viny-acetate (EVA) midsole. The shock-absorbing GEL™ within the heel gives further cushioning.

Strolling 18 in these infants isn’t any drawback.

Value and Availability

The sorta-kinda traditional-looking ASICS GEL-ACE PRO M Standard (I get drained simply typing it) is obtainable beginning at present at retail and on-line. It is available in two colorways: an aesthetic white with black trim and an equally elegant black with silver trim.

At launch, it will likely be out there in males’s fashions solely. It will likely be supplied in full and half sizes in seven by means of 12 in addition to full sizes 13 and 14. You probably have a large foot, nonetheless, this most likely isn’t the shoe for you because it comes solely in customary width.

The ASICS GEL-ACE PRO M Commonplace retails for $199.99.

For extra info, visit Srixon.com.

ASICS GEL-COURSE DUO BOA – Laces Are For Suckers

To not be misplaced within the GEL-ACE PRO M Commonplace whoop-de-doo, ASICS can be updating its different spiked shoe, the GEL-COURSE DUO BOA.

If, after all, by “updating,” you imply changing previous colorways with new colorways.

The GEL-COURSE DUO BOA was a part of the primary ASICS-Srixon North American launch in late 2019. It’s a extra athletic-looking shoe than the GEL-ACE PRO M Commonplace and it eschews laces for BOA as a result of, as Tony Covey says, laces are for suckers.

The brand new colorways are white with minimal black trim and black with minimal white trim. Aside from styling, there’s no perceivable improve to the middle-of-the-road Buyer’s Guide performer.

The brand new GEL-COURSE DUO BOA shoes are additionally out there beginning at present at retail and on-line. They’ll even be out there in males’s solely to start out, in full and half sizes from seven by means of 12 and in full sizes 13 and 14, all in customary width.

They retail for $179.99. Srixon is discounting the older models at $129.99.

And One Extra Factor …

As talked about, the brand new ASICS choices are the primary merchandise launched underneath the brand new Dunlop Sports activities Americas umbrella. Earlier this spring, Srixon-Cleveland-XXIO introduced its North American operation was being rebranded as Dunlop Sports activities Americas. For you historical past buffs, that’s the identical Dunlop as the unique British Dunlop golf and tennis firm, originator of the Maxfli and Dunlop 65 balls.

Sumitomo Rubber Industries (the “SRI” in Srixon) first partnered with the Dunlop Tire model in 1999. In 2016, Sumitomo acquired the trademark rights to Dunlop in 86 nations (Goodyear holds the Dunlop tire rights within the U.S.). In early 2017, Sumitomo established the Dunlop Sports activities Firm Ltd. to run its golf and tennis operations.

The brand new Dunlop Sports activities Americas is now the umbrella firm overseeing operations for Srixon, Cleveland and XXIO, and Dunlop tennis for all of North America. That’s why you’re seeing Dunlop branding on the hats and golf luggage of Srixon staffers on Tour.

Srixon, Cleveland and XXIO branding will clearly stay in place. We did, nonetheless, ask if this implies we’d see Dunlop-branded golf balls returning to North America. The query was met with a noncommittal, “We’ll see.”

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