Tour Ping G430 LST and Max drivers, G430 Max fairway wood & G430 hybrid – 2022 Shriners Children's Open

[Grouchykona]

(This may have been asked before):

Are the 2 non-Ping shafts offered: Mitsubishi Kai”Li White & HZRDUS Smoke Red RDX, “made for” or “real deal” oem shafts?

[animalgolfs]

 10.5* LST & 34* 7 hybrid will go into the bag

 

Tour Black 2.0 & lofting up has perks for my game. 

[odshot68]

After Michael newtons review I’m less excited about the new lst. Perhaps the Aerojet may be the answer. Still want to try hybrids. 

[beluga99]

On 1/11/2023 at 11:25 AM, darunia484 said:

Hearing everywhere G430 sounds better than G425, but not sure about performance upgrades. I'm still rocking the G400 max 🙂

I also have the G400 Max with the Tour 65x.  Head to head the G430 is better for me.  Lower spin and more penetrating ball flight.  Might be the shaft (Kai'li) but prefer the G430 LST.  Won't be getting rid of my G400 though, one of my all time favourite drivers.

[GFarrell]

4 hours ago, Grouchykona said:

(This may have been asked before):

Are the 2 non-Ping shafts offered: Mitsubishi Kai”Li White & HZRDUS Smoke Red RDX, “made for” or “real deal” oem shafts?

 

Just got my G430 MAX w/Kai'Li White 60X, its the real deal.

[Grouchykona]

5 minutes ago, GFarrell said:

 

Just got my G430 MAX w/Kai'Li White 60X, it’s the real deal.

Sweet! I’ve heard that Ping uses the real deal shafts instead of “made-for”

[SollyinGA]

Does the driver still sound like a 4 year old PBR can?

[Whatnogarnish]

53 minutes ago, SollyinGA said:

Does the driver still sound like a 4 year old PBR can?

Upgraded now, like a High Life - Champagne of Driver sounds. 

[beluga99]

2 hours ago, Whatnogarnish said:

Upgraded now, like a High Life - Champagne of Driver sounds. 

Concur.  Solid sound and feel.  I even like it slightly better than my one true love, the G400 Max.  The G425 was a wonderful performer, but as has been documented, sounded like Rosanne Barr singing the National Anthem @ the Padres game in in 1990. 

 

I actually think it's a shrewd marketing move by Ping.  "Let's release the G425 driver with hollow, metallic ring which most people hate, then we can give the G430 the voice of an angel and everyone will automatically think it's a better driver without any demonstrable performance improvements..."  Genius!

Edited January 12, 2023 by beluga99
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[Bskib]

Tested out my G430 max head and Ventus Red TR 6x combo tonight. Thing is very solid feeling and sounding.  Ball feels like it explodes off the face.  Wasn’t swinging at break neck speed 112mph, head felt fast but not TSR fast. However I was center striping the fairway on the sim. Nice tight draws… Had a few terrible swings and result was incredible, spin was retained. Never spiked or dipped.  The spin numbers on all strikes ranged from 2100-2400. 
 

Testing is in the early stages but results are very promising. May have had lighting strike twice (G400 now G430). 
 

More to come in the next week or so and will test a TR blue I have had built up as well. 

 

[Viper4225]

43 minutes ago, Bskib said:

Tested out my G430 max head and Ventus Red TR 6x combo tonight. Thing is very solid feeling and sounding.  Ball feels like it explodes off the face.  Wasn’t swinging at break neck speed 112mph, head felt fast but not TSR fast. However I was center striping the fairway on the sim. Nice tight draws… Had a few terrible swings and result was incredible, spin was retained. Never spiked or dipped.  The spin numbers on all strikes ranged from 2100-2400. 
 

Testing is in the early stages but results are very promising. May have had lighting strike twice (G400 now G430). 
 

More to come in the next week or so and will test a TR blue I have had built up as well. 

 

This sounds like a delicious combo. Haven't hit a ping driver since the isi, I was surprised how forgiving the g430 max is!

Edited January 12, 2023 by Viper4225

[TechBroker]

When do they come out?

[JungleJimbo]

24 minutes ago, TechBroker said:

When do they come out?

Details here: https://www.golfwrx.com/702034/golfwrx-launch-report-2023-ping-g430-drivers/ 

[eric61]

7 hours ago, beluga99 said:

I also have the G400 Max with the Tour 65x.  Head to head the G430 is better for me.  Lower spin and more penetrating ball flight.  Might be the shaft (Kai'li) but prefer the G430 LST.  Won't be getting rid of my G400 though, one of my all time favourite drivers.

How does the forgiveness of the 430 LST compare? Feel like a huge step down, or comparable?

[metaldog]

3 hours ago, Bskib said:

Tested out my G430 max head and Ventus Red TR 6x combo tonight. Thing is very solid feeling and sounding.  Ball feels like it explodes off the face.  Wasn’t swinging at break neck speed 112mph, head felt fast but not TSR fast. However I was center striping the fairway on the sim. Nice tight draws… Had a few terrible swings and result was incredible, spin was retained. Never spiked or dipped.  The spin numbers on all strikes ranged from 2100-2400. 
 

Testing is in the early stages but results are very promising. May have had lighting strike twice (G400 now G430). 
 

More to come in the next week or so and will test a TR blue I have had built up as well. 

 

so far how likely do you think it will replace your tsr?

[Pleasedwith3putts]

Please can anyone with a G430 driver let me have confirmed raw headweight as am trying to build up this reference thread. So weight head only and reference to what removable weights would be really appreciated please 

 

[Grouchykona]

9 hours ago, Bskib said:

Tested out my G430 max head and Ventus Red TR 6x combo tonight. Thing is very solid feeling and sounding.  Ball feels like it explodes off the face.  Wasn’t swinging at break neck speed 112mph, head felt fast but not TSR fast. However I was center striping the fairway on the sim. Nice tight draws… Had a few terrible swings and result was incredible, spin was retained. Never spiked or dipped.  The spin numbers on all strikes ranged from 2100-2400. 
 

Testing is in the early stages but results are very promising. May have had lighting strike twice (G400 now G430). 
 

More to come in the next week or so and will test a TR blue I have had built up as well. 

 

Great to hear!  I’ll be using my Ventus Red 6x (not TR) from my G425 to my G430 Max which I just pre-ordered. Can’t wait!

[Bskib]

8 hours ago, Viper4225 said:

This sounds like a delicious combo. Haven't hit a ping driver since the isi, I was surprised how forgiving the g430 max is!

I was surprised as well. I hit one high toe and yet it went straight down the fairway with 2400 spin.  I didn’t intend to test the full forgiveness of the driver. But I have confidence in knowing if I don’t bring my best swing, the driver is playable and I can keep the ball on the planet.

[Bskib]

6 hours ago, metaldog said:

so far how likely do you think it will replace your tsr?

The only issue I had was I snap hooked a few drives. That has nothing to do with the head.  Just me trying to learn the timing pattern of the TR red.  My current TSR is built almost as a scramble driver with the light and long BGT Brava. Will go back to the Tensei 1k black I was fit for originally and compare.  So far though, PING has the lead do to the consistency of spin all over the face and forgiveness on the worst strike I could put on it lol

[geauxWRX]

3 hours ago, Pleasedwith3putts said:

Please can anyone with a G430 driver let me have confirmed raw headweight as am trying to build up this reference thread. So weight head only and reference to what removable weights would be really appreciated please 

 

The ping G430 LST headweight is 205g without adaptor

[coreyhr]

On 1/11/2023 at 7:06 AM, kwainio said:

 

Stealth 2+ driver and fwy are $829 and $589. Insane.

Good lord. Now I know why I get many PM's asking if I'll ship to Canada on my BST listings. Think I'll start being a little more open minded about doing that in order to help out, because that's ridiculous. 

[rexwrx]

4 minutes ago, coreyhr said:

Good lord. Now I know why I get many PM's asking if I'll ship to Canada on my BST listings. Think I'll start being a little more open minded about doing that in order to help out, because that's ridiculous. 

As a Canadian the sticker shock of $829 hurts in nominal dollars, but on a currency exchange relative basis is inline with Stealth2+ driver being $629 USD.

 

 

[rexwrx]

4 hours ago, Pleasedwith3putts said:

Please can anyone with a G430 driver let me have confirmed raw headweight as am trying to build up this reference thread. So weight head only and reference to what removable weights would be really appreciated please 

 

199g head weight without adapter. Back weight marked 19g and measured at 19g. 180g head weight without back weight to confirm. 
 

 

[Grouchykona]

6 minutes ago, rexwrx said:

199g head weight without adapter. Back weight marked 19g and measured at 19g. 180g head weight without back weight to confirm. 
 

 

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Isn’t the “standard” tungsten back weight 25g for the Max?  Was yours a special order? (shaft, length, swing weight etc…)

[rexwrx]

No special order - standard retail Japan release. 
 

Perhaps the raw head weight was heavy so they had to dial back the back weight to hit 199g total. 

[geauxWRX]

1 hour ago, geauxWRX said:

The ping G430 LST headweight is 205g without adaptor

 

[leftycabe]

47 minutes ago, rexwrx said:

No special order - standard retail Japan release. 
 

Perhaps the raw head weight was heavy so they had to dial back the back weight to hit 199g total. 

I believe it is customary that Japan models are lighter and shafts are less stiff as that is what they fine to work best in that market. 

[Grouchykona]

10 minutes ago, leftycabe said:

I believe it is customary that Japan models are lighter and shafts are less stiff as that is what they fine to work best in that market. 

That makes sense. Thanks 

[Viper4225]

20 hours ago, Grouchykona said:

(This may have been asked before):

Are the 2 non-Ping shafts offered: Mitsubishi Kai”Li White & HZRDUS Smoke Red RDX, “made for” or “real deal” oem shafts?

 

I'm also curious about this, has anyone received their driver w/ hzrdus red, does it say "hexcel hextow" on the shaft?

 

TIA.

 

 

 

[Grouchykona]

2 minutes ago, Viper4225 said:

 

I'm also curious about this, has anyone received their driver w/ hzrdus red, does it say "hexcel hextow" on the shaft?

 

TIA.

 

 

 

I pre-ordered mine with the hzrdus red and should have it within 2 weeks. I’ll update when I get it. 
 

“Hexcel Hextow” on shaft = real and not made for?