This is not your father’s footwear.

For decades, saddle golf shoes followed a staid black-and-white tradition, walking a narrow line between comfort and maintaining the classy look of a pair of wingtips. No longer. Today’s athletically-inspired golf shoes still put comfort front and center, but they also aim to shave strokes off your score … and look hip while doing it. The new footwear jargon — chassis, torsion, rollbars, power — further emphasizes that your feet and legs are the engine that drives your golf swing. So if you’re losing your left foot at follow through or sliding on takeaway, stop swinging out of your shoes and get a grip with these high-tech models: