Ping Driver/Woods 2023?

[m_w]

14 minutes ago, WarEagleGolf said:

I see 425s all the time.  I have three in my group of 5.

 

I like the sound of the LST, MAX not as much. In fact, i dislike the sound of the carbon drivers.  That muted, thud is weak sounding.  When I hit the 425 I know when I caught it and when I didn't...feel and sound wise.  

 

Not like it's the old Nike SQ line or the G line...I added a TON of hotmelt to that one, still put a ring in your ears if you really lit one up.  Never hit that one indoors. 

 

 

Agreed, the LST sounds good to me, the Max on the otherhand sounds like an empty can being hit 😄

[WarEagleGolf]

1 minute ago, m_w said:

Agreed, the LST sounds good to me, the Max on the otherhand sounds like an empty can being hit 😄

#holdmybeer

 

Agreed.

[Fourpar18]

22 hours ago, Byrdman2230 said:

They seem to be off to a good start for 2022 with the i525, PLD putter line with a dedicated website and the Glide 4.0 coming soon. 

Don’t forget about about those i59s!  Yes, they are expensive but they are sweet to hit!

[PearSorbet17]

7 hours ago, Strategery said:

 

I have not seen a single G425 driver on the course.

Same. I’m in SoCal and It’s about 60 percent TM, 20 percent Callaway and 20 percent Titleist. 

[Fourpar18]

53 minutes ago, PearSorbet17 said:

Same. I’m in SoCal and It’s about 60 percent TM, 20 percent Callaway and 20 percent Titleist. 

They play what is popular and not what is a overall better driver!  Look at players that aren’t contracted for clubs, they play PING much like players play mizuno for irons.  
 

Most people don’t understand that Taylormade pays professionals (not under contract) $1500 each event (may be everyone they tee it up) just to play their driver.  For someone who isn’t a big name player that plays in 3 events a month and plays 8 months that would be a 36K just to play a black and red driver.  
 

I am not bashing any other driver or company, he’ll I have hit ALL of them numerous times each year but for some reason “I” always keep coming back to PING.  
 

Yeah, the driver is a little pitchy but when you hit outside on the open course it’s not that bad.  Yes, at a driving range or indoors it’s a little louder but so are many drivers.
 

Plus no customer service will ever beat PINGS!  No major company OEM will!  
 

just my 2¥

[wobgon]

9 hours ago, Strategery said:

 

I have not seen a single G425 driver on the course.

Hmmmm....Played yesterday in a foursome that had 2 425 lst's and a 425 Max.

[wobgon]

7 hours ago, j.b.newton said:

Wonder what people would say today about the old Cleveland Hi-Bore or the Sq Nike in terms of sound today....

I like to put my old L4V in play about once a year just to aggravate certain people with the sound....It still is about as good as anything.

Edited March 8, 2022 by wobgon

[sofla]

I ordered i525 last week. Stock Project X shaft, black dot and only real adjustment was adding swingweight. Was told they will ship on or about 3/24. I'm a glass half full guy or very naïve. 

[jamie]

1 hour ago, sofla said:

I ordered i525 last week. Stock Project X shaft, black dot and only real adjustment was adding swingweight. Was told they will ship on or about 3/24. I'm a glass half full guy or very naïve. 

The IO? I ordered mine with standard Project X shafts so hoping those aren't backordered. 

[Strategery]

13 hours ago, wobgon said:

Hmmmm....Played yesterday in a foursome that had 2 425 lst's and a 425 Max.

 

Interesting variety of responses. I wonder if it is just random or if there is some regional factor?

[sofla]

50 minutes ago, jamie said:

The IO? I ordered mine with standard Project X shafts so hoping those aren't backordered. 

yes I went IO 

[underwater]

I've heard the G425 LST being hit a few time on course..  While not ideal, it's certainly more tolerable than the MAX.

 

...the MAX sound is kind of a joke between my buddy and I.   There's a point on my golf course where a cluster of 3 tee boxes are within 100 yards of one another and one day this old timer leaned into his G425 Max and it was almost hilarious.  It sounded like he hit the ball with an old steel Tonka Truck on the end of a shaft.  

[Nateyeight]

I am a high handicap, and I will take fairways over sounds any day of the week with my G425 Max. 

Edited March 11, 2022 by Nateyeight

[capking]

Btw at the ole local golf shop the owner said he especially them late 2022 early 2023 for the new woods/driver 

[capking]

9 minutes ago, capking said:

Btw at the ole local golf shop the owner said he especially them late 2022 early 2023 for the new woods/driver 

Expects*

[Strategery]

On 3/6/2022 at 7:51 PM, Byrdman2230 said:

They seem to be off to a good start for 2022 with the i525, PLD putter line with a dedicated website and the Glide 4.0 coming soon. 

 

Those will all be duds in my area. Ain't nobody gonna pay that much $, especially for an Anser which is not a Scotty or a wedge which is not a Vokey.

[underwater]

3 hours ago, Nateyeight said:

I am a high handicap, and I will take fairways over sounds any day of the week with my G425 Max. 

 

So the G425 MAX is remarkably better than any other driver when it comes to you hitting fairways?  Nothing else on the market can get you there, and it's actually responsible for lowering you handicap to where it is now?  And if the MAX didn't exist, you'd be an even higher handicap?  That's what I'm taking away from your post.

[hammergolf]

On 3/7/2022 at 9:07 PM, PearSorbet17 said:

Same. I’m in SoCal and It’s about 60 percent TM, 20 percent Callaway and 20 percent Titleist. 

Wow, not one Ping driver in play….

[hammergolf]

1 hour ago, Strategery said:

 

Those will all be duds in my area. Ain't nobody gonna pay that much $, especially for an Anser which is not a Scotty or a wedge which is not a Vokey.

Funny, an Anser that’s not a Scotty….. Bad enough he copies designs, now he’s taken over the name?

[Byrdman2230]

2 hours ago, Strategery said:

 

Those will all be duds in my area. Ain't nobody gonna pay that much $, especially for an Anser which is not a Scotty or a wedge which is not a Vokey.

My comment was in response to someone questioning Ping’s ability to bring new product to the market and fulfill orders in a timely fashion. Ping seems to be off to a good start this year in that regard.

[Nateyeight]

2 hours ago, underwater said:

 

So the G425 MAX is remarkably better than any other driver when it comes to you hitting fairways?  Nothing else on the market can get you there, and it's actually responsible for lowering you handicap to where it is now?  And if the MAX didn't exist, you'd be an even higher handicap?  That's what I'm taking away from your post.

For me yes! Of all the ones I tested, the G425 had a tighter dispersion pattern. Although I lost some distance compared to the other drivers, it was the most consistent. My iron play and chipping is where I lose a bunch of stokes, and I am not a long hitter. If the G425 didn't exist like in your example, I would have chosen the next best in dispersion pattern, that could have been a Cobra or TM SIM2. I am not on the PGA tour so not hitting it 10-15 more yards and taking less OB's actually helps me have more fun. 

[RainShadow]

On 3/7/2022 at 6:01 AM, animalgolfs said:

People complaining about sound

 

Those of us that only care about results

 I don't love the sound of my 425LST, but it do perform!

 

[Morry]

425 was a miss

still in the 410

 

found it slow and less neutral than the 410

too heavy

 

they need to lighten it up and totally change the sound obviously 

 

very excited about the next version

 

every other version seems to be the trick with all these oems to be honest

 

 

[Strategery]

(Waiting for Titleist 2023 thread)

[tomg1969]

On 3/7/2022 at 11:10 PM, Fourpar18 said:

They play what is popular and not what is a overall better driver!  Look at players that aren’t contracted for clubs, they play PING much like players play mizuno for irons.  
 

Most people don’t understand that Taylormade pays professionals (not under contract) $1500 each event (may be everyone they tee it up) just to play their driver.  For someone who isn’t a big name player that plays in 3 events a month and plays 8 months that would be a 36K just to play a black and red driver.  
 

I am not bashing any other driver or company, he’ll I have hit ALL of them numerous times each year but for some reason “I” always keep coming back to PING.  
 

Yeah, the driver is a little pitchy but when you hit outside on the open course it’s not that bad.  Yes, at a driving range or indoors it’s a little louder but so are many drivers.
 

Plus no customer service will ever beat PINGS!  No major company OEM will!  
 

just my 2¥

Ping has always done an amazing job of designing clubs that perform. The 425 series of woods is really good, but havinf played both, I prefer the G400 LST to the 425 and the G400 Max to the 425 Max....

They sounds and feel better and the smaller LST profile performs just as 425. The G400 max spins a little more than the 425 Max for me, but forgiveness is a wash

[underwater]

16 hours ago, Nateyeight said:

For me yes! Of all the ones I tested, the G425 had a tighter dispersion pattern. Although I lost some distance compared to the other drivers, it was the most consistent. My iron play and chipping is where I lose a bunch of stokes, and I am not a long hitter. If the G425 didn't exist like in your example, I would have chosen the next best in dispersion pattern, that could have been a Cobra or TM SIM2. I am not on the PGA tour so not hitting it 10-15 more yards and taking less OB's actually helps me have more fun. 

 

Great!  Glad the G425 MAX is the key to lowering your scores.  There isn't a club in my bag that's actually responsible for decreasing my handicap.  It more comes down to what I'm working on in my swing, how I'm feeling, what I ate or didn't eat (ha), and how much I'm playing, mixed in with a little "rub of the green".  

 

 I've tested everything and if TM stopped making drivers and I had to ditch mine, I could run through a few shafts and and get the TSi3 pretty much right where I am with the TM.  Just comes down to looks, sound/feel, and general what I felt like buying at that moment.

 

  I've been ho'ing clubs for years and I'm pretty much the same handicap I was back then.  Maybe a 1-2 points worse because I'm not playing nearly as much.

 

 

[animalgolfs]

6 minutes ago, underwater said:

 

Great!  Glad the G425 MAX is the key to lowering your scores.  There isn't a club in my bag that's actually responsible for decreasing my handicap.  It more comes down to what I'm working on in my swing, how I'm feeling, what I ate or didn't eat (ha), and how much I'm playing, mixed in with a little "rub of the green".  

 

 I've tested everything and if TM stopped making drivers and I had to ditch mine, I could run through a few shafts and and get the TSi3 pretty much right where I am with the TM.  Just comes down to looks, sound/feel, and general what I felt like buying at that moment.

 

  I've been ho'ing clubs for years and I'm pretty much the same handicap I was back then.  Maybe a 1-2 points worse because I'm not playing nearly as much.

 

 

Don't sell yourself short - you put alot of effort into telling others how bad Ping is......

[underwater]

26 minutes ago, animalgolfs said:

Don't sell yourself short - you put alot of effort into telling others how bad Ping is......

 

I have Ping clubs in my bag.  Doesn't mean their driver isn't loud and excessively heavy.

[bopper53]

Plenty of guys play Ping drivers here in Texas.

 

I played Ping for 30 years and loved them.

 

But I have to say that my PXG 0811X is the best that I have played in a long time.

[underwater]

I don't care who plays what  - but there are people in this thread who say that the PING drivers are not pleasing sounding - enough that they won't play them.  And there are some who don't mind the loud "empty coffee can" sound.  And that's fine.  I can only speak to my preferences.

 

 It's such a simple fix for PING and I'm pulling for the company to resolve this - I'm a huge PING fan and I would buy their drivers if they paid a little more attention to acoustics.  The Rapture series, the i20 and i25 drivers all sounded great.  For the last few years I've played iBlades and still play a G425 hybrid.   

 

I was watching this driver shootout and the tester claims "I won't play the PING because of the sound".

 

Good shootout regardless: