The best spikeless shoe TRUE Linkswear has ever made finished second on a three-shoe list, behind a $170 Nike and ahead of a toe shoe.
That list comes from a MyGolfSpy tester's 2026 roundup of shoes that missed the best-overall cut but earned a repeat purchase. Nike's Pegasus 1 took the top slot on traction and price. The Peluva Apollo landed third on comfort despite waterproofing that gave out around the ninth hole. In between sat the TRUE Linkswear Antigravity, praised for a PEBAX midsole, a toe box described as wide but not too wide, and breathability good enough to recommend on its own. Then the same verdict TRUE has been collecting for a decade: the traction is below average.
Why Does TRUE Linkswear Keep Losing on Traction?
TRUE built its entire identity on the premise that golf shoes had been designed for a foot nobody actually has. Zero drop, natural toe splay, walk-first construction. It was a correct read, and the industry eventually copied the comfortable parts. What TRUE never solved is the one function that justifies a golf shoe existing as a separate product category. Uppers, midsoles and breathability are solved problems borrowed from running. The outsole is the only component that has to answer to wet poa at 7 a.m. on a side-hill lie.
The PEBAX midsole in the Antigravity is genuinely premium tooling, the same foam family that running brands charge $180 for, and the tester's comparison to a basketball shoe is the right one. But a bouncy ride on a shoe that slips is a sneaker with a logo problem. The heel-strike fatigue note is a fair knock on any zero-drop platform, and TRUE has always been honest that its shoe asks for a different gait. Grip is not a philosophy. It either holds or it does not.
Is the Antigravity Pro an Upsell or a Fix?
The most revealing detail in the review is that the Antigravity Pro, by the same tester, has solid traction. TRUE knows how to build the outsole. It chose to put it on the more expensive model. That is a defensible merchandising decision in a category where OEMs tier everything, and it is also a structural admission: the base Antigravity ships with a known deficiency the brand has already engineered around.
For a brand that spent years telling golfers the big companies were overcharging for things they did not need, selling the fix as a trade-up is a tough look. Independent retailers carrying TRUE have to explain why the entry shoe grips worse than the one next to it, which is the hardest sentence in footwear retail.
How Does the Nike Pegasus 1 Pressure TRUE Linkswear's Comfort Pitch?
Nike spent a few years essentially absent from golf footwear and has returned with the Victory Pro 4, the Victory Tour 4 and now the Pegasus 1 at $170 with traction the tester called sensational. That price point is the problem. TRUE's pitch was never value, it was fit philosophy, and the philosophy is no longer proprietary. Peluva, a brand that puts individual toe pockets on a golf shoe, now delivers the most comfortable zero-drop walk this tester has found.
Squeezed from above by a reactivated Nike and from below by minimalist upstarts, TRUE sits 69th of 215 brands in our global index and dropped 18.2 percent month over month. The brand is not in trouble on product quality. It is in trouble on differentiation.
The path forward is unglamorous and obvious: make the Pro outsole standard, eat the margin, and stop shipping a shoe that reviewers have to apologize for in the same paragraph they praise it. TRUE spent a decade convincing golfers that comfort was worth reorganizing a shoe around and then watched everyone else arrive at the same conclusion with better rubber. The next Antigravity does not need a new story. It needs to hold on a wet tee box.
