adidas Adipower Golf Shoe Review: The best value golf shoe of 2026?

Golf shoes are getting increasingly expensive as the years pass by. With competition as fierce as ever and the technological arms race continuing unabated, the best golf shoes now routinely exceed £150, putting them well out of the reach of everyday golfers.

As such, it's refreshing when a brand decides to throw a genuine value proposition at budget conscious golfers, and this is very much what adidas have set out to achieve with its latest shoe, the Adipower. Despite being the brand's biggest shoe release of the year so far, it's also notably affordable, clocking in significantly cheaper than models like Nike's Victory Pro 4 or the Under Armour Drive Pro Clone.

Traditionally, the trade-off with more affordable shoes has always been that they skimp on tech and durability in the name of frugality. The Adipower, however, is slightly different, packing in plenty of tech that, while not quite on the level as flagship models like the Adizero ZG, CodeChaos or the Tour360, deliver truly high-end performance at a more accessible price point. Naturally, we had to get it on foot to see how it performed.

Looks and features

The Adipower very much follows the DNA of previous performance-oriented adidas golf shoes to come before it, adopting the vague silhouette of its running and tennis shoes to cut a more athletic profile. It probably won't win any awards for its sheer looks alone, but it's certainly distinctive enough to look at thanks to its prominent outsole, full-leather upper. 

It's not particularly sleek in the manner of the Adizero ZG, and isn't quite as robust as the Tour360, but thanks to its full-grain leather upper, looks and feels premium nonetheless. The Adipower actually reminds me of a tennis shoe, which is to say you probably wouldn't wear it down the pub, but it'll blend in well with your outfit whether you want to cut a more formal look or play a more casual round.

Looks aren't really the focus of the Adipower, however, and the new shoe draws on the heritage of prior Adipower golf shoe models (the last of which came out in 2022) to deliver an experience underfoot that's assured, stable and gives you the best platform possible to generate – you guessed it – power.

Key to this is the debut of a midsole material previously unused in adidas golf shoes. Named REPETITOR, it's derived from the brand's running and tennis shoes, and delivers a fairly stable, responsive ride underfoot that's cushioned enough to keep you going for a full 18 holes.

The REPETITOR midsole sits over a pretty aggressive traction platform, which combines sections of rubber spikes with a TPU shank that adidas has dubbed POWER PLANE. This performs two duties, stretching from the lateral forefoot to the medial heel not only to provide more traction and durability in the areas of the highest wear underfoot, but stabilise the underside of the foot for greater power. 

Notably for a shoe of its price point, the Adipower also comes in a spiked option for £10 more, using Thintech Max Cleats adidas developed in collaboration with CHAMP/MacNeill (the Adipower will also fit aftermarket spikes). As such, it instantly enters the conversation among the cheapest high-performance spiked shoes in its category.

Performance

The Adipower feels like a shoe that's designed to be rock solid in pretty much every category, and it fulfils its duty perfectly as a dependable all-round golf shoe for the more budget-conscious golfer. 

The adipower not entirely spectacular in any particular aspect compared to its more expensive cousins. The lightweight, running-derived foam on the Adizero is bouncier and more dynamic underfoot, while the Tour360's stability and support simply can't be beaten. The job of the adipower, however, is to bridge these two worlds in a more accessible way, and it does this really well.

The Repetitor foam, while a little firmer than adidas's Lightstrike or Boost foams, is comfortable and responsive. The outsole is very grippy in both its spiked and spikeless variants, while the TPU power plate gives you a wonderfully solid, stable platform on which to swing with all your might.

Should you buy the adidas Adipower golf shoes?

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The real selling point of adidas's new Adipower shoes is, of course, the price point. At £110 for the spikeless variant and £120 for the spiked version, these come in significantly cheaper than the top-end models we've tested this year from the likes of FootJoy and Under Armour. 

Yet despite this, thanks to considered touches like the genuine leather upper and adjustable heel pad, the adipower has that slightly more premium air over its rivals at this price point. 

Put altogether, we think that makes for one of golf's most compelling value propositions, and if there's a more fully-featured golf shoe out there for the same price as the Adipower right now, we're yet to see it. 

Sure, they're not the sexiest things in the world. But if you still have to operate within a slightly tighter budget but still want to feel all the trappings of a truly premium shoe, the adidas Adipower will prove a perfect fit for your needs.