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PING G440 Drivers, Fairways and Hybrids

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Jeff Spicoli said:
This. When I see things going sideways, I stop paying to the thread.
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And for PING, the devout are DEVOUT.

I still remember being DESTROYED for honest feedback about the sound from the 425, even after being a primary defender of the 400 and 410’s.
 
At to the 440’s, I’m excited to get one or more of the heads in hand after the PGA show to work with, there’s a lot here that does interest me, even if it does feel like an incremental release.
 
Jman said:
At to the 430’s, I’m excited to get one or more of the heads in hand after the PGA show to work with, there’s a lot here that does interest me, even if it does feel like an incremental release.
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430 or 440?
 
Jman said:
And for PING, the devout are DEVOUT.

I still remember being DESTROYED for honest feedback about the sound from the 425, even after being a primary defender of the 400 and 410’s.
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Yeah. My Dad loves Ping and has played their irons, drivers, and fairways for 30+ years. I pay attention to what Ping is doing, having played their irons in the past and loved them. When honest feedback gets shot down like that, it destroys any interest I have in reading about a product.
 
outlawx said:
430 or 440?
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You know what I meant dude. It’s hard to tell what day it is with as much writing as we are doing right now.
 
Jeff Spicoli said:
I'm not sure of the numbers, but would Ping be the smallest of the major OEM's by units sold? And then THP experiences play a huge role. Titleist, Mizuno, Callaway, and Cobra have experiences here. That leaves TM and Ping. I'm assuming TM sells a lot more so that will naturally lead to more discussion.
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That's all im saying. I didn't mean it in a negative way.

TM threads are low bc there are no experiences. Ping doesnt have an experience either. When i say most forgotten about its bc Ping threads have the least interaction. I absolutely understand and agree all the other OEM's have way more traction bc of the experiences, rightfully so of course. Those awesome discussions from the experiences really help get clubs in more hands of people from honest feedback
 
Jman said:
You know what I meant dude. It’s hard to tell what day it is with as much writing as we are doing right now.
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I thought you were going to pick up some old heads to see the improvement year to year?
 
The LST driver looks kind of fun.
 
Jeff Spicoli said:
I'm not sure of the numbers, but would Ping be the smallest of the major OEM's by units sold? And then THP experiences play a huge role. Titleist, Mizuno, Callaway, and Cobra have experiences here. That leaves TM and Ping. I'm assuming TM sells a lot more so that will naturally lead to more discussion.
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Hard goods they generally sit a little behind TM & Cally. They sell a lot though and had a great year last year. Ran out of product a couple times.
 
OldandStiff said:
Hard goods they generally sit a little behind TM & Cally. They sell a lot though and had a great year last year. Ran out of product a couple times.
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Learned their lesson from 400 and 410 for sure.
 
Jeff Spicoli said:
I'm not sure of the numbers, but would Ping be the smallest of the major OEM's by units sold? And then THP experiences play a huge role. Titleist, Mizuno, Callaway, and Cobra have experiences here. That leaves TM and Ping. I'm assuming TM sells a lot more so that will naturally lead to more discussion.
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No. But their demographic skews older than some others.
Depending on category, top 4-5 in most.
 
JB said:
No. But their demographic skews older than some others.
Depending on category, top 4-5 in most.
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Good point. My Dad isn't on any online golf forums.
 
JB said:
Thats off course only numbers.
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Doe Ping have an oncourse presence? I can’t for the life of me remember seeing them in proshops.
 
Loved my G410 max driver. I felt like I was guaranteed to find the fairway with it in my hand. I’ll probably give one of these a go, but the big issue for me is getting a proper fitting session with one. That would probably be the deal breaker for me right now.
 
outlawx said:
Doe Ping have an oncourse presence? I can’t for the life of me remember seeing them in proshops.
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Yes. Region dependent though. Sunbelt it has done well. They have had some erosion in a few categories over the last few years, but others have done fine.
 
outlawx said:
Doe Ping have an oncourse presence? I can’t for the life of me remember seeing them in proshops.
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Around here, they are in almost ALL of the pro-shops. My own included.
 
JB said:
Thats off course only numbers.
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Yeah green grass shuffles the deck. And one company has really been moving up on that.
 
Jman said:
Around here, they are in almost ALL of the pro-shops. My own included.
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Wow. That's interesting. More the opposite here.
 
OldandStiff said:
Yeah green grass shuffles the deck. And one company has really been moving up on that.
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Thats actually not really true. A number of them have really changed their green grass strategy. Comparing year over year there are some stark differences across the board.
Srixon adding Nike and then making swift changes recently comes to mind.
 
OldandStiff said:
Wow. That's interesting. More the opposite here.
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There's this lightly successful golf program in this area named Oklahoma State, who have won a thing or two, and play on a course named Karsten Creek.

Not to mention, PING has always always always been big on pro-shop accounts nationally, as well as in the youth game.

They have fallen off from that a bit, but they sure haven't vanished.
 
JB said:
Thats actually not really true. A number of them have really changed their green grass strategy. Comparing year over year there are some stark differences across the board.
Srixon adding Nike and then making swift changes recently comes to mind.
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That's what I was saying. Bigger and more recent changes there.
 
Jman said:
There's this lightly successful golf program in this area named Oklahoma State, who have won a thing or two, and play on a course named Karsten Creek.
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Riiiiight right right right right.. 😆 If I'd thought about that for half a second. Lol
 
Interesting release and as someone who enjoys my Ping goodies at the top of the bag, I don't see the 440s replacing what I currently have. Certainly feels like a year for incremental changes, but that's not a bad thing.
 
mr.hicksta said:
Interesting release and as someone who enjoys my Ping goodies at the top of the bag, I don't see the 440s replacing what I currently have. Certainly feels like a year for incremental changes, but that's not a bad thing.
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After writing the release article, this is where my feelings are too.

Though I do think they are underselling the move to carbon crowns across the lineup...but, PING did down-talk carbon for a LONG time despite having done it way back in the day with Rapture haha
 
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