What is the purpose of kilties on golf shoes?

Question

I've been looking at different golf shoes and most of them have these goofy things on them.. What is the purpose, or supposed purpose, of these?

Answer 1

Now days they are mostly decoration. It's a hold-over from the older days when shoes and boots were dual purposed. The little fringe like piece in front of the laces used to be used to keep tall grasses and bits of twigs out of the shoes people wore back in the good old days. These days, it's put there to look pretty.

Answer 2

Kiltie Golf Shoes

Answer 3

what is a kiltie??????????????????? if they're wat im thinking of then they're just for decoration but im not sure im thinking of wat ur thinking of