It is Payntr's own mission statement.
It is also the reason we represent them.
"We think about golf footwear as equipment. Inspired by creating new, solution-based, crafted product, our design methodology is deeply grounded in the biomechanics of the golf swing."— Payntr Golf, Portland, Oregon
It is the wrong end. Every swing begins at the ground — with two feet pressing, braking and rotating against the turf. The club is the end of the chain. The shoe is the beginning.
Payntr are the first footwear brand we have encountered who take that premise seriously. Not as marketing. As a design principle. That is why we represent them.
Payntr were not founded in a marketing department. They were founded in a shared conviction between a former professional cricketer and one of golf's most experienced footwear designers.
David Paynter was a player first. He modified his own running shoes to play cricket and saw the industry's largest blind spot: performance footwear was being designed without a biomechanical starting point. In 2017 he founded Payntr to change that — first in cricket, then in golf.
Mike Forsey came from the opposite direction. Thirty years in golf footwear design: signature models for Greg Norman at FootJoy, Tiger Woods at Nike Golf, Jordan Spieth at Under Armour. He left the establishment to build something from first principles. In 2019 the two met in Portland, Oregon. The rest is Payntr Golf.
Michael Glancy joined in 2020 as the third partner. Eight years at Reebok developing athletic footwear for baseball, soccer and track. Together they form a founding team with four decades of combined performance-footwear experience — a rare combination in a category more often driven by marketing than by construction.
David Paynter launches Payntr's first cricket shoe after eighteen months of development. Within a year it stands alongside Puma, Adidas and Asics in global press.
David meets Mike Forsey. Two veterans with forty combined years in performance footwear agree on the same diagnosis: golf shoes need to be rebuilt from the ground up, with biomechanics as the starting point.
The company is established in Portland, Oregon. Michael Glancy joins as the third partner. Development of the X 001 F begins.
On 1 March 2021, the X 001 F launches. Within two years it wins MyGolfSpy's test for best spikeless golf shoe. The first tour players begin wearing Payntr without sponsorship agreements.
Eighty Seven SC — named after Day's birth year — launches after ten months of wear-testing. It sells out in 90 minutes. The first successful signature model in golf since Tiger Woods.
All Day takes first place and Match Day second in the spikeless category. Payntr Golf emerges as the fastest-growing footwear brand in North American golf.
Traditional golf footwear has optimised for the round. Payntr broke that tradition. They design first for the 1.5 seconds where clubhead speed is actually generated — and construct the comfort around that.
It is an inverted hierarchy. And it is the foundation the entire shoe is built on.
Ground reaction force acts in three dimensions. Payntr's technical framework answers each with a specific construction detail.
The outsole is engineered to brake, post and rotate at once. Zoned traction nodes — hexagonal and arrow-shaped — are placed exactly where tour players empirically produce peak force. Aggressive traction sits under the medial forefoot and lateral heel. A dual-durometer midsole keeps the foot in contact with the ground throughout the downswing.
A carbon-fibre plate embedded in the midsole with directional stiffness — the plate becomes stiffer as more force is applied. When you press down at the posting moment, that energy is stored and returned upward. The principle is related to elite marathon "super shoes", adapted to the specific force profile of the golf swing.
Nitrogen-infused foam in both midsole and footbed — maximum energy return per gram. The same generation of midsole technology that drives elite running's Vaporfly category, adapted to golf's specific weight transfer. Underfoot should feel responsive, not damped.
The PMX Fit Heel locks the heel in place without pressure points. Clarino microfibre upper with Waterproof+ membrane. A 90-day blister guarantee — a commercial marker rarely seen in golf footwear, and one that signals construction confidence rather than marketing promise.
Every golfer uses the ground. But not in the same way. BioSwing Dynamics — developed by Mike Adams and Dr Scott Lynn — classifies players by their dominant force source. We match each profile to the correct Payntr model.
Payntr make the shoe. We measure what it does for your swing. Here is the protocol — the same every time, for every client.
Payntr have built a shoe designed from biomechanical first principles. The construction is solid. The proposition is intellectually honest. That is why we represent them.
But we are also aware that no peer-reviewed study has shown Payntr's outsole delivers measurably greater clubhead speed than other premium footwear. What research does exist suggests the differences between good shoes are small. We do not hide that.
Where others sell promises, we measure effects. Every Payntr fitting with us adds data that, over time, can answer the question no shoemaker can answer alone: do the shoes matter, and for whom?
That is what the Payntr partnership means in practice. We do not carry a logo. We measure a hypothesis.
A Blueprint session includes full BioSwing profiling, a Smart2Move baseline and a Payntr match based on your individual force data.