Equipment

Puma takes crown for lightest shoe with Faas Lite Mesh

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13 years ago

May 15, 2013

There’s a new champ in the race to have the lightest golf shoe on the market.

Starting in June, Puma Golf’s newest shoe, the 6.5-ounce Faas Lite Mesh, will be available for purchase. The launch date for these shoes — which will be sold for $90 — is June 5, and they will be the lightest footwear option on the market.

“The new, spikeless footwear style is designed to take you from the street to the course in lightweight, maximum comfort and trend-setting style,” said Tom Manthe, global marketing manager for Puma Golf.

The Faas Lite Mesh embraces the barefoot movement, something that has been a driving force in a number of releases in 2013. It got started back in January with Adidas announcing its 10.6-ounce adiZero shoe (full review can be found here) and continued later that month with Oakley’s 9.2-ounce Cipher 2 (full story can be found here).

Since then, barefoot golf shoe originator True linskwear released its new PROTO (full story can be found here) and FootJoy went minimal with its M:Project golf shoe (Full story can be found here).

Puma will also start selling its slightly heavier, but still incredibly light, Faas Lite waterproof shoes which check in at 8.7 ounces. The waterproof versions contain all the same barefoot benefits as the Mesh version and will sell for $100.

The benefits of a barefoot shoe include a zero-degree drop from the heel to the toe, keeping the foot level in the shoe. That is supposed to give a more natural stride and promote better posture while swinging.

Puma is also promoting its use of corrugated flex grooves that move with the foot for a more natural movement, provide optimal flexibility and more ground contact while swinging.

There will be a women’s version of Faas Lite Mesh ($80) and the Faas Lite waterproof ($90) starting June 5 as well.

A new Puma release wouldn’t seem complete without a Rickie Fowler-inspired edition, and the Faas Lite comes through with one. Taking inspiration from Fowler’s 2010 “Golf Art,” a special-edition shoe, the Faas Lite Splatter ($110), will feature a paint splatter design on a white outsole with an orange (no surprise there) foam stripe.

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Andrew Prezioso is a freelance sports reporter and photographer (http://amprezioso.smugmug.com/). You can follow him on Twitter @AMPrezioso. He currently lives in Atlanta, Georgia, after graduating from the University of Richmond in 2012.

6 Comments

Dustyn

Sep 4, 2013 at 10:13 pm

There light and comfy till you swing, No protection on the front of toes and no grip!!

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Santiago

Aug 5, 2013 at 1:03 am

These shoes are awful. I love how confortable they are but durability is a big issue. I am on my second pair and both lasted 3 rounds until the sole separates from the shoe in the left side of left foot (right handed golfer), exactly where they get most do the stress. My second pair lasted a week and is going back to the store tomorrow. Really bad quality!!!!!

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Chad

May 28, 2013 at 8:05 pm

I run in Puma Faas shoes and they are the most comfortable shoes I have ever worn. So much so that I bought a few pairs for running and a few for casual wear. Puma already has a Faas golf shoe, I believe, but it was leather and only came in white/black and black/orange. These new ones may make it into my lineup, depending on the color selection.

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Eagle006

May 28, 2013 at 4:45 am

Golf shoes are now running shoes. The two things have essentially merged and are barely indistinguishable from each other. If someone had suggested this 15 years ago, they’d have been rightly ridiculed.

I welcome increasing comfort and decreasing weight in golf shoes, but it seems to be being done at the expense of grip. Sorry, but a few small knobbles on the sole isn’t really going to cut it. Surely it’s not beyond these companies to produce a light shoe which still offers exceptional grip and traction? Either way it’s a far cry from Hogan ordering shoes with extra metal spikes, because he gripped the ground so much through his swing.

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Justin Quirke

May 20, 2013 at 11:30 am

This article deserves a good proof reading before it got publicized. In graph 3, barefoot movement got started by adidas? then the next sentence says barefoot originator True Linkswear? Which is it, was the barefoot movement originated by the adidas or by the true? And Faas Lite waterproof are listed as $100, then $90? University of Richmond must not have taiught how to outline a story. This is awful.

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- Zak Kozuchowski
  
  May 20, 2013 at 2:15 pm
  
  Justin,
  
  Adidas launched its adizero shoe in January 2013, which was extremely light and had barefoot elements. Then we learned of Oakley’s Cipher at the 2013 PGA Merchandise show, which was even lighter.
  
  Now Puma has gotten into the mix with its Faas Lite Mesh, which is even lighter than that. But the first company to bring barefoot to golf was True, which is why they are mentioned.
  
  The mesh version of the Faas Lite (6.5 ounces) is $90, while 8.7-ounce waterproof version of it is $100. In women’s, the prices are $80 and $90, as Andrew states in the ninth paragraph.
  
  It’s not Andrew’s fault, or the fault of his university, that you chose not to comprehend the information he provided.
  
  – Zak
  
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Equipment

Slab city on the Korn Ferry Tour — Lead Tape Report

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9 hours ago

Jun 10, 2026

Andrew Von Lossow

This week, we have our Tour Photographer, Greg Moore, on the ground at the OccuNet Classic at Tascosa Golf Club in Amarillo, Texas, for the 14th event of the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour season. With that, we see some great things in the Lead Tape Report as we roll into Amarillo.

Joel Thelen

Monday Qualifier, Joel Thelen is in the field this week. He has played on the Korn Ferry Tour for a full season in 2023, and he is back in action this week. A couple of clubs caught my eye this week in his bag.

First off: His trusted Titleist 816 H2 hybrid. This club came out in October of 2015, and it still remains strong in the bag. Also, take a look at this Odyssey White Hot OG 7, putting a capital S in the 7S model. This custom neck has some impressive lean for an arm-lock-style putter. The bottom of the putter is covered in tape for optimal weighting.

Mitchell Meissner

Taking a look at Mitchell Meissner’s bag this week, we have some great lead tape coverage. Top to bottom working from fairway metals, irons, and wedges. We can see on the short irons and wedges that there is tape at the base of the grip, adding a little counterbalance. Along with that, some tape on the short irons and wedges as well. Moving to his putter, he rolls the Odyssey 7 Bird putter. Meissner putts left-handed and strikes the ball right-handed.

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Bud Cauley WITB 2026 (June)

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Jun 10, 2026

Will Schube

Bud Cauley had >14 clubs in his bag when photographed prior to the Memorial Tournament.

Driver: Titleist GTS2 (8 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X

3-wood: Titleist GTS3 (15 degrees, B1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Chemical Tensei 1K Pro Red 70 TX

7-wood: Titleist GTS3 (21 degrees, D1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Chemical Tensei 1K Pro Red 80 TX

Irons: Titleist U505 (3), Titleist 620 MB (4-9)
Shafts: Fujikura Ventus Black HB 8 X, True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM11 (48-10F, 52-12F, 56-14F), WedgeWorks (60-K*)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400

Putters: Scotty Cameron Tour Prototype, Scotty Cameron GOLO 6.3 Prototype

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Align

Ball: Titleist Pro V1

See more in-hand photos of Bud Cauley’s clubs here.

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Name every set of irons you’ve owned – GolfWRXers discuss

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9 hours ago

Jun 10, 2026

Will Schube

In our forums, one user has offered up a prompt for the true sickos, inviting fellow forum members to share every set of irons they’ve ever owned. As to be expected, this is a lengthy forum topic.

@Lamosteve began:

Can you name every set of irons you’ve owned? Here’s mine

Spalding Dots
Spalding Eclipse
Ram Lazer FX
Lynx Parallax
Mizuno EZ Comp
Ben Hogans
Cleveland CG Red
Taylor Made R9s
PING i20
PING iE1
Taylor Made M6

Our members in the forum have been offering up their own collections. Here are a few posts from the thread, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.

macedan: “Started with a hand-me-down Golden Bear set from my brother when I was in high school, never really played more than once a year or got into the game until about summer of 2017. First purchased a set of Cleveland CG4’s (I actually really miss this set sometimes, soft & not terribly large for a GI iron), moved into Nike Vapor Fly’s by the end of the year. Those lasted until spring of 18 when I decided I wanted new, so I traded them in for TM Rbladez. Honestly, although I liked the Rbladez, poor decision on my part, I think this was really about the only time so far that after a week or two I was kicking myself for not staying with what I had. Rbladez stayed with me until late last summer when I switched to P790’s and (knock on wood) I am hoping this will be my longest lasting set.”
JimmyC59: “MacGregor Jack Nicklaus Triple Crown. Palmer The Standard. Still play these.”
jgrzask: “Tommy Armour 845u
Mizuno MP-32
Mizuno MP-33 (2 sets)
Bridgestone J33cb – still own
Srixon i-302 (2 sets) – still own
Tourstage X-Blades – still own
Mizuno Hot Metal – still own
Nike Forged Blades – still own
Titleist 714 AP1 – still own
Cobra Forged SS – still own”

Entire Thread: “Name every set of irons you’ve owned.”