ECCO LT1 golf shoes review: comfy on mats, unproven on grass

I’d already spent a year in my first pair of ECCO golf shoes. So when I walked into an ECCO store around this spring, the brand was already settled. The only question was which model, and I came out with the ECCO LT1 golf shoes in the BOA version. A BOA dial is a small knob on the shoe that you turn to tighten a thin cable, in place of tying laces.

Since then I’ve worn them for dozens of rounds of screen golf, at the practice range, and for two rounds on a real course. Screen golf is a golf simulator room, common in Korea, where you hit a real ball off a mat into a screen. I wrote up one round on a Golfzon simulator if you’ve never seen one.

That mix is the whole lens of this review. It’s mostly mats.

My verdict

If you mostly swing in a simulator or at the range, the ECCO LT1 BOA is a very comfortable shoe. I’d buy it again without thinking twice. I can’t vouch for it on wet grass or slopes yet, and one tester said they’d switch to spikes in wetter conditions. If you play a lot of real rounds, plan on a separate course shoe as well.

Why I went back to ECCO

My first golf shoes were from Adidas and Nike. Both hurt across the width of my foot and at my little toe. To be fair, it was my first year and my posture wasn’t good, so the shoes may not have been the only cause.

Then I tried on an ECCO S-Three BOA in a store, and it felt like I wasn’t wearing anything. I bought it.

I wore the S-Three all year, and it showed. The soles were worn down a lot. By the time I needed a new pair, I wasn’t looking at any brand but ECCO.

At the ECCO store I tried on several models. The LT1 was the most comfortable of the ones I tried. I paid around 150,000 Korean won for it, if I remember right. I don’t know which version or model year mine is, so I won’t guess.

What the ECCO LT1 is, according to ECCO

The LT1 launched in 2024. ECCO’s release called it “available now” in the UK on February 13, 2024, and the US press release followed on March 11 (Golf Business News, First Call Golf). At UK launch it cost “£170 for the lace model and £200 for the BOA style”.

ECCO calls it a hybrid shoe. That’s ECCO’s word for its spikeless golf shoes: the sole has molded rubber lugs instead of removable cleats.

ECCO Korea’s LT1 page lays out the rest (ECCO Korea, ECCO GOLF LT1, retrieved 2026-10-02). The midsole, the cushioning layer between your foot and the bottom of the shoe, mixes two materials. ECCO LYTR is “an advanced bounce and rebound material”, and PHORENE is ECCO’s “soft” material for comfort and stability. ECCO says the forefoot, midfoot and heel each get “targeted amounts of the two materials”. The LYTR is built into the sole with FLUIDFORM, ECCO’s name for its technology for embedding foam in the sole.

The outsole, the bottom layer that touches the ground, is called E-DTS NET. ECCO describes it as “a fresh twist on the ECCO DYNAMIC TRACTION SYSTEM” that “provides multi-directional traction and durability”. For waterproofing, the LT1 uses “the waterproof membrane, exclusively developed for ECCO”. It doesn’t use GORE-TEX.

Here’s how that lines up with the S-Three I wore before it.

Sources: LT1 from ECCO Korea and Golf Business News. S-Three from Plugged In Golf, 2020-04-28 and Golf Business News, SS23.

For you, the clearest difference on paper is the waterproofing. GORE-TEX is a well-known brand of waterproof, breathable membrane used by many shoe makers. The LT1 uses a membrane made for ECCO instead. I found no test comparing the two, so I wouldn’t pick between these shoes on that line alone.

I couldn’t find a published weight from ECCO for the LT1, so I can’t tell you whether it’s lighter than the S-Three.

ECCO LT1 golf shoes in the simulator and at the range

They’re cushy, and my feet don’t hurt. That’s the honest summary after dozens of simulator rounds and my range sessions.

At first they felt almost too comfortable for golf. They felt more like a sneaker, or a shoe you’d wear around the house. That’s my feeling about comfort, and it’s a different point from ECCO’s own description. ECCO talks about a “clean, sneaker-style aesthetic”, which is about how the shoe looks.

As it turned out, that soft, casual feel suits where I actually play. In a simulator or at the range, I’m standing on a mat and hitting ball after ball. A shoe that feels like a sneaker is exactly what I want there.

The fit is the part that fixed my old problem. I wear a 260, the Korean size in millimeters, and the width fits me very well. My first shoes hurt across the width of my foot. These don’t.

On looks, mine are white with lime green, and I think they look clean.

I don’t have a complaint to report, honestly. But part of the reason is that I’ve barely taken them onto a course, which brings us to what I can’t cover yet.

What I can’t tell you yet

Two rounds on a course aren’t enough to judge a golf shoe on grass. I can’t tell you how the LT1 grips on wet grass or slopes, how it feels on a long walk, or how fast the outsole wears. I’ve also never worn spiked golf shoes, so I have nothing to compare it against.

Photo: the author, 2026-10-02. The lime rubber lugs are the E-DTS NET outsole.

Wear is the question my last pair leaves me with. My S-Three soles wore down a lot in a year, and I can’t say yet whether the LT1 will last longer. ECCO says the E-DTS NET outsole provides “durability”, but no review I found tested wear.

What reviewers found on grass and fit

For grass, fit and sizing, I’m leaning on reviewers who tested it. None of them ran a measured grip test.

Wet grass. Golf Magic wrote, “we noticed no loss of traction; however, if we were to play in slightly wetter conditions, we would opt for a fully spiked shoe” (Golf Magic, 2024-03-01). Fairways Golf found “all the grip I needed for the dry conditions” but didn’t wear them in the rain (Fairways Golf, 2024-05-27).

Fit during the swing. Golf Monthly listed this as a con: “Foot has a tendency to roll within the shoe during the swing” (Golf Monthly, 2024-02-27). Golf Magic noticed “a touch more movement within the shoes than we would ideally have liked”.

Cushioning and size. Plugged In Golf’s reviewer said the bottoms of the feet “felt a bit tired” and could have used “a touch more cushioning”. The review also found the shoe runs small and pointed readers to ECCO’s foot-length chart (Plugged In Golf, 2024-07-12).

Overall. MyGolfSpy ranked the LT1 first of 28 hybrid golf shoes in its 2024 test. It scored 9.6 out of 10, as reported by Golf Business News, 2024-04-16. MyGolfSpy’s own page wasn’t accessible when I checked.

The cushioning note doesn’t match my feet, which don’t hurt. On the foot rolling inside the shoe, I have nothing to report either way. And mine are one pair of feet, mostly standing on mats. If it were me, I’d take those reports as a reason to try the shoe on before buying, not as a reason to skip it.

Still deciding whether a spikeless shoe is enough for grass at all? I went through what the grip tests did and didn’t measure in spikeless vs spiked golf shoes.

Who the LT1 suits, and why I’d buy it again

Would I buy the ECCO LT1 again? Yes, without hesitation. My plan is to add a separate shoe just for the course. These stay as my simulator and range shoes.

Terms in this article

• BOA dial: a small knob on a shoe that you turn to tighten a thin cable, in place of tying laces.
• Hybrid golf shoe: ECCO’s term for its spikeless golf shoes, with molded rubber lugs on the sole instead of removable cleats.
• Spikeless golf shoe: a golf shoe with rubber bumps or lugs molded into the sole instead of screw-in cleats.
• Spiked golf shoe: a golf shoe with replaceable cleats screwed into the sole.
• Midsole: the cushioning layer between your foot and the outsole.
• Outsole: the bottom layer of the shoe, the part that touches the ground.
• E-DTS NET: the outsole on the LT1. ECCO describes it as a newer take on its DYNAMIC TRACTION SYSTEM sole.
• ECCO LYTR: a foam ECCO describes as a bounce and rebound material, used in the LT1’s sole.
• PHORENE: ECCO’s soft sole material, which it says adds comfort and stability.
• FLUIDFORM: ECCO’s name for the technology it uses to build its foams into the sole.
• Waterproof membrane: a thin layer inside the shoe’s upper that keeps water out. The LT1 uses one developed for ECCO.
• GORE-TEX: a well-known brand of waterproof, breathable membrane. The S-Three uses it; the LT1 doesn’t.
• Screen golf: a golf simulator room, common in Korea, where you hit a real ball off a mat into a screen.