What Are Your Favorite Ping Irons?

Rickochet · 2017-12-15T13:59:12+00:00

I will go ahead and post for Steve - All of them. How about the rest of youse guys? Another question is are the newer Ping irons still taper tip or hav...

sdandrea1

Spuzz Who cares.
The topic was gay to start with.
LOL
😉

Spuzz

Rickochet
That's CP Fitness selling all his SMT stuff...just because.
LOL

mulegolf

The beryllium copper ones.

limpalong

mulegolf
An old, old picture of them but they will be in the bag tomorrow morning. I try to give them some daylight a couple times/year. No better than I'm playing right now, they may stay in the bag for a while.

Spuzz

Rickochet Maybe a new Golf Channel commentator?

It's all of them whenever they talk about Tiger.

johnnydoom

Took the Raptures to the range today in order to learn yardages, but the range was in quite a bit of disorder after all of the rain we’ve had. None of the flags were anywhere near their normal yardage and so I still don’t have a clue. Looks like the regular graphite shafts and purple lie angle are agreeable with my swing though. After I stopped over swinging (took about 30 or 40 balls) everything was string straight along the point of aim.

sdandrea1

Rickochet Chill out Francis, I jacked my own thread.

Shirley you didn't just call me Francis. 😉

Rickochet

sdandrea1 Shirley you didn't just call me Francis. 😉

Have you ever been in a Turkish prison? 😜

sdandrea1

Rickochet Have you ever been in a Turkish prison?

No, only American prisons for me. 😊

Spuzz

Rickochet
Steve likes gladiator movies.

sdandrea1

Still the Eye 2 or Eye 2+

WWfromIA

sdandrea1 I a have a set of eye’s, eye 2’s, I3’s and then 2-5 of the G2HL’s. The eye 2’s are awesome, but I think the original eye’s are my favorites.

Rickochet

sdandrea1 Still the Eye 2 or Eye 2+

Dang, Steve how did you run across this old thread? FWIW since I posted this I tried some Ping G400 irons and sent them back. I like the old fugly Eyes also. I reamed out a set of Eyes last summer and really liked them with the FST shafts. Distance was a bit short but so was most everything else I tried but I hit them well. At the end of the summer I picked up a set of Eye 2 + orange dots and will ream them out this winter (with a reamer - private joke). I hope to get a bit more distance than with the Eye 2. I have weeded out most other iron sets I had and now have only some Hireko thick topline shovels and two sets of Ping fugly shovels. Me likey. 😁

johnnydoom

Still rocking the Raptures. Haven't ever hit any other model of Ping iron. Also been impressed with the G400 driver and 5 wood, which are the only other Ping clubs I've ever hit. Only have 4 non-Ping clubs in the bag: 3 hybrid, 54 deg. wedge, 58 deg. wedge, and putter.

Cwing

Wow. Old thread. Let’s see, G15, i20, G25, G410. All great. G25 is hard to beat but G410 is in my bag.

bigshank

I second the G25s and when they were new I really liked the I5s

Rickochet

bigshank I second the G25s and when they were new I really liked the I5s

I always thought Ping had a very distinctive look that carried over from one model to another. The G400 set I had I thought that they had totally gotten away from their signature look and more like everything else.

fatshot

bigshank when they were new I really liked the I5s

I had a set of I5's that I ordered myself when I retired. Loved those clubs until the R shafts got too strong for me in
my old age. Foolishly, I sold them instead of re-shafting. Wish I had that set back!

Typhoon

Rickochet

As Steve would say, and I agree, their signature look was “no ferrules”. Now their irons look like everyone else’s but they are very easy to hit... that part remains.

And Johnnydoom... I’ve always secretly wanted a set of Rapture V2 irons... I think those are the Japan version with low offset right?

johnnydoom

Typhoon I think those are the Japan version with low offset right?

I know they exist and I saw some of those on eBay when looking for a sand wedge for the set. But I really don't know a lot about Raptures or their lore. I bought these used from meagain when I was looking for irons with regular flex graphite shafts to try and didn't care too much which brand or model. These are the original version irons and are more accurate than any other irons I've ever played when I'm swinging well. The graphite has seemed to alleviate the joint pain I was having in my fingers and wrists after rounds too. But there is supposed to be a Japan version like you referenced with lower offsets.

Rickochet

Typhoon As Steve would say, and I agree, their signature look was “no ferrules”. Now their irons look like everyone else’s but they are very easy to hit... that part remains.

My experience with the G400 was quite different. It wasn't about ferrules. The thinner topline look at address for me was a disappointment. They didn't have that Ping look to me. And I didn't find them as forgiving as some of the older models.

Typhoon

johnnydoom
The Japan model says V2j in the cavity. Now I want to start looking... damm it!!!

Typhoon

Rickochet

A few years back I had a set of Ping G irons as rentals and they were just so easy to hit. I think they are getting away from the Game improvement look with a thinner top line. I don’t know about the G400 but maybe they aren’t as forgiving as pings from a couple years ago. Trying to appeal to people with a thinner top line might take away forgiveness.

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