To provide a golf shoe most suitable for golf swings, which prevents to the utmost its own deformation suddenly caused by the golf swing, decreases separation or a sewing thread's tearing break between an outsole and an instep side cover, and further decreases ankle injury of a golf player.

In a cross sectional shape in the widthwise direction of a sole 16L (16R) of the golf shoe 10 which has a flat bottom face on the sole, when a first straight line is drawn along the height direction of the golf shoe from a side end position of the sole in the widthwise direction of the golf shoe, and concurrently when a second straight line is drawn along the widthwise direction of the golf shoe from the flat bottom face 16L (16R) position of the sole, an area appears surrounded among the first straight line, the second straight line, and an external form line of the sole, whereby the golf shoe has an areal portion whose size is not less than 5 mm2 at least at a heel section of the sole 16L (16R).