The Sun Day Red Pioneer Cypress gives you the feel of one goat, and the look of another

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Sun Day Red has built their business on two pillars; beautiful marketing, and Tiger Woods. The polos are beautiful, with high quality materials and a large amount of colors, while the off course wear is comfy and casual, while also giving that premium feel. In a market saturated with these brands, Sun Day Red stands out as the only one to have direct influence and creative direction from Tiger. They showcase this through their artful and refined marketing campaigns, featuring long shots of beautiful golf scenery while emphasizing themes of repetition, determination, and grace. I am a fan of the brand, and I like their overall design, but the only products that really enticed me were those with soul, like the polo that drew from Tiger’s scripting at the U.S. Am. Or, the anodized ball markers that threw out the normal black and red for vibrant blues and violets. So, I was especially excited about the shoes, which were said to have the most input from Tiger out of any product, and were engineered to his exact wants and needs after the millions of steps and thousands of hours he has on the golf course. After patiently waiting for my Pioneer Cypress “limited edition” to arrive, I darted to grab the box when it came, opening the shoes on camera to capture my reaction. They were as beautiful I imagined.

Building on the top tier packaging from Sun Day Red was basically a goodie bag of accessories; tees, two individual shoe bags, extra (pebbled) insoles, and a pair of extra laces that were just unbelievably fire. The first thing that caught my eye on the shoe was the elite mix of materials on the upper. Combining sleek yet protective waterproof leather with the nimble calfskin around the middle doesn’t give the show an elegant mix of form and function, but give is it a feel of past and present not clashing, but welding together to create something new. It is almost as if the modern slopes of the Jordan ADG were somehow combined with the refined edges of a Footjoy Packard or Premier, with the technology to rival both in comfort and style. The materials meet right around the toe, giving it a streamlined look from above while maintaining a stable base underfoot. Do note, the shoes are not that wide, and the type of materials used does call for a bit of breaking in.

The white and red are mixed throughout, coming to a head in the red on white spackle pattern that embosses the strong plastic backing of the heel, a motif that moves around the shoe from the laces to the insole to the bottom. The red eyelets peak through just on the top, giving it a pop alongside the red fonted Sun Day Red on the tongue, while they are hidden under the upper for the rest of the shoe. Details, details, details. For those with that on their mind, this is one shoe you don’t want to miss out on. It is a near-perfect blend of materials, color blocking, and trimming that for a first ever shoe product, is quite impressive, yet expected given the people involved in front and behind the product. But for all that, I still had to figure out how it would pass it’s most important test; is it good for golf?

To be completely honest, I expected this to be quite a comfortable shoe from the start for a few reasons. Yes, there is so much money put into the design and marketing that would allow me to believe that beforehand, but I honestly believe that Tiger would not wear this shoe if he didn’t like it. He started wearing FootJoy’s again even before he officially left Nike, for the health of his leg more than anything, so these shoes would have to at least be comfortable and supportive. Most of my golf shoes are modern technology (or Jordans), but I have a pair of FootJoy’s, so I was intrigued to see where the balance lay. Just like visually, it has a pretty split mix of feeling and design for on course wear. It has the spacing and rigidness of a more traditional shoe but the underfoot technology of a modern, more “sports-inspired” golf shoe. It was a little tight at first, but I had also just re-laced them myself, but I did note that I immediately felt both stable yet cushiony, something that is sometimes hard to do. It helps that the shoe is spiked, it has a lot of them as well, but they are clear and more flexible than most other shoes I own, which was very intriguing to me. It almost makes it hard to see the cleats from the side, yet they are for sure there, as I accidentally marked up a couple greens if I wasn’t thinking about lifting my foot up all the way.

Other than the spikes infrequent cutting of the greens and the opening stiffness, I do not have much to complain about with this shoe. I find it to be quite pleasing to the eye, and more importantly, for my feet. I already like it better than some of the older FootJoy models I own just due to the fact of the increased cushioning and tech underfoot. Price-wise, I think it sits fairly at $250 ($275 for the two LE colorways), especially given the fact that most Jordan golf shoes and FootJoy’s easily run over $200, if not more. But, other than the premium materials, cool design, and copious research done, most important above all, it is the shoe made perfect in every single little way for Tiger Woods. Sun Day Red believes that if it’s good enough for him, it should be good enough for you, which is a lot of what their marketing is based on. If these shoes (and the copious amounts of R&D) are any indication, these claims are true.