What are the best insoles for golf shoes?
The best golf insoles are those that offer the perfect combination of personalized support, the right fit in your golf shoes, and overall comfort. In this post we’ll look at how the right golf insoles can help to improve your swing, why a custom moldable golf insole is the best option for any golfer, and how supportive insoles can help prevent fatigue and injury on the golf course.
We'll also look at why SOLE footbeds are excellent inserts for golf shoes, and why they're the perfect golf insoles for plantar fasciitis, flat feet, or other ailments that could affect your game.
How supportive insoles can improve your golf swing.
An effective, smooth, powerful golf swing needs stability, balance and alignment. The best golf insoles will help promote all of these factors through the combination of a supportive arch and a deep heel cup.
A supportive arch and a deep heel cup combine to offer structural support beneath your feet to distribute pressure evenly as you transfer your weight through your swing motion. This even distribution of pressure helps to stabilize your feet and provide a solid foundation for your swing, helping you maintain a consistent swing plane.
Golf insoles with a deep heel cup and supportive arch will also help promote neutral alignment in your body throughout your swing. This includes helping correct biomechanical imbalances like overpronation or underpronation (supination) which create inefficiencies in your chain of movement.
Whether you have a specific imbalance or not, the right golf shoe inserts will help maximize efficiency in the transfer of energy through your body’s chain of movement from your feet, all the way to the tip of your club.
"Drive distance increased by an average of 11.25 yards when the subject was wearing SOLE Custom Footbeds." - Stude & Gullickson (2000)
The best golf shoe insoles are custom moldable.
SOLE footbeds offer all the benefits of a deep heel cup and a supportive arch, with the added benefit of custom molding to your unique feet. Our footbeds will custom mold to your feet over a few days of regular wear, or you can heat mold them using your oven at home.
When our golf insoles are customized to your feet they act as a dynamic second skin, staying in constant even contact with the bottom of your feet. This allows the footbeds to more effectively distribute pressure evenly across the foot.
A study conducted in 2000 showed that drive distance increased by an average of 11.25 yards, and Club Head Velocity increased by 1.8 mph with SOLE Footbeds.
Custom molding SOLE footbeds also allows them to conform to your specific arch height, increasing their efficiency at reducing strain in your arches. This becomes crucial in preventing fatigue and painful ailments like plantar fasciitis.
These footbeds are favorites among golfers.
Golf insoles for plantar fasciitis.
It takes more than 10,000 steps to play 18 holes of golf. As you play through your round, your feet begin to fatigue. One of the most common overuse injuries in golfers is plantar fasciitis, caused by excessive strain on your plantar fascia ligament. Insoles with good arch support reduce the strain placed on your feet through each step.
Once heat molded, SOLE footbeds are clinically proven to reduce arch strain by an average of 34%. This dramatic reduction in strain prevents injury or inflammation in your plantar fascia. If you already suffer from plantar fasciitis, wearing SOLE golf inserts in your shoes will prevent further aggravation and give your feet time to recover. This means you can golf pain-free and focus on your game, not your feet.
Golf insoles for flat feet.
Flat feet or collapsed arches can negatively effect your body's alignment, impacting your swing and your comfort while you golf. Flat feet also place extra strain on your joints and ligaments, leading to pain and fatigue.
Adding an insole with arch support to your golf shoes is an excellent solution, helping to promote a more stable structure to your feet, so you move more efficiently. Many people with flat feet will find supportive insoles uncomfortable. The arch support is often too aggressive under your feet, or too flat to offer the benefits that arch support should.
This is another advantage of being able to custom mold SOLE footbeds to your unique arch height. We recommend that people with flat feet heat mold their footbeds before first use, to get the arch support customized to their feet from first use. The heat molding process can also be repeated multiple times if necessary, to get comfort dialled in as quickly as possible.
Once heat molded, the footbed will strike a perfect balance between adding the support your feet need, without being painful under flat feet.
Why SOLE footbeds are the most comfortable golf insoles.
Maybe the most important element of a good golf insole is that you should love wearing it. Many insoles that offer a high level of arch support will feel uncomfortably rigid or inflexible underfoot.
SOLE footbeds are made with a density-mapped base that flexes with your foot’s natural motion as you take each step. The result is that you enjoy all the benefits of strain reduction without the discomfort of an arch that interferes with your foot’s natural movement.
Our footbeds also come in different thicknesses, so you can choose a footbed based on the volume of your golf shoe. If you have a ‘regular-fitting’ golf shoe, that fits something like a running shoe or sneaker, then the Medium thickness footbed will be your best bet.
But if your golf shoes fit on the snug side, you might prefer the bulk-free support of our Thin footbed. Finally, if you prefer our most luxuriously cushioned footbed, and your golf shoes have a little wiggle room to accommodate them, you could try our Thick footbeds.
Whether you’re buying an insole to improve your golf game, recover from an injury like plantar fasciitis, or simply increase the comfort of your golf shoes, you can’t go wrong with custom moldable insoles from SOLE.