Look at the bottom of a PAYNTR collab and you will find the partner’s name printed across the outsole. Not a logo on the tongue, not a hangtag. The tread. Turn over the Students shoe and STUDENTS reads through translucent rubber; the Forresters shoe says FORRESTERS across the same panel. It is a small decision and most of why these sell out, because the branding stays invisible until somebody is standing behind you on a tee box.
PAYNTR has now done twenty-five collaborations with eleven brands, and thirteen of them landed in the last seventy-two days. The previous twelve run across the nineteen months before that, so the pace has roughly quadrupled this summer, and most of what came out of it has already sold through.
The brand comes from cricket. David Paynter played professionally, is the great-grandson of the England Ashes batsman Eddie Paynter, and started the label in 2017 because cricket footwear was bad. Golf came later, run out of Portland, Oregon with Mike Forsey and Michael Glancy Jr., who both had long careers in performance footwear before this. That background is why the shoes are competent and why the graphics live under them rather than on them.
The partners run from Students and Sugarloaf Social Club through Jones, Khalhon, Bad Birdie, Vessel, Ghost, Forresters, Matchstick and Del Campo, at prices from an eighteen dollar sock to a two hundred and fifty dollar shoe. PAYNTR’s own house line closes it out, and it is plainer than anything the brand makes with somebody else.
David Paynter, a former professional cricketer and the great-grandson of England Ashes batsman Eddie Paynter. He started the Payntr brand in 2017 making cricket footwear, then extended it into golf.
Portland, Oregon. The golf side was co-founded with Mike Forsey and Michael Glancy Jr. Forsey has more than thirty years in performance footwear, and PAYNTR's own site credits Glancy with numerous footwear design and utility patents and signature models for well-known athletes.
Twenty-five that are still listed, across eleven partners: Sugarloaf Social Club, Jones Sports Co, Khalhon, Bad Birdie, Students Golf, Vessel, Ghost Golf, Forresters, Par x Design, Matchstick Golf and Del Campo.
The VESSEL x PAYNTR SL Limited Edition, released in early August 2026 at $240.
The pace. Thirteen of the twenty-five released in the last seventy-two days, most in small runs. Both Bad Birdie shoes, both Students colorways, the SSC Eighty Seven and the Jones RS all sold through without restocking.
The Del Campo quarter sock at $18, followed by the Matchstick ball marker at $20 and the Khalhon corduroy cap at $30.
Yes. Under its own name it sells driver headcovers, blade and mallet putter covers, cabretta gloves, merino no-show socks, beanies and a leather recovery slide, from $14.50 to $50.
Their site states that one tree is planted for every pair sold.
