Jacked Loft Police, Look Away Now 👀

[BiMGuy]

The new Ping G730 comes with a 40° wedge

But don’t despair, you can get it in retro spec at 40.5°.

 

[Singlefiguregokfer]

How far does it go?

 

[BiMGuy]

How far does it go?

Bryson hits his 40° pitching wedge 170. So, that I guess!

 

[Orikoru]

I honestly don't see how this can keep continuing, unless more companies get on the 10 iron, 11 iron bandwagon and we start ordering sets that are 7 to 11 instead of 5 to P or whatever. It's pointless to called them wedges if it's 40° and you need five more wedges after them.

 

[moogie]

I just look at these sets and think
6 - gap wedge
Is what used to be
5 - PW
Order accordingly

Never fussed what the number on the club says tbh
Just the loft, and distance each goes

 

[IanM]

Played this morning with a guy who kept bragging how he was two clubs "better" than me into the greens.

I beat him 3 and 2 and also Googled his lofts and mine in the bar after! Not sure he got it!

 

[srixon 1]

Played this morning with a guy who kept bragging how he was two clubs "better" than me into the greens.

I beat him 3 and 2 and also Googled his lofts and mine in the bar after! Not sure he got it!

So there are still folk out there that believe the hype.

 

[wjemather]

Won't be long before they're trying to sell us a set of 7 "wedges".

 

[Oddsocks]

In my CF16’s I carried 4-pw, in my ZX5’s I carry 5-pw+48.

Don’t see the confusion

 

[bobmac]

The lofts on my irons are the opposite, I think the PW is 50.
When playing in PGA events, sometimes I used to play a game at par 3's.
If it was my honour and I hit the green, I'd put the club back in the bag straight away but not all the way, leaving it sticking out about a foot so anyone could see it was say a 6 iron.
Not all the time but a few times I'd watch my fellow competitors change clubs and fly through the green.

 

[Neilds]

Bored, bored,

 

[Mark1751]

I feel that the number on the bottom is now irrelevant, I recently got the Ping g430’s and the lofts are strong, once I worked out how far I hit them I use the most appropriate club, if that’s a 9 iron or a 7 iron it’s doesn’t matter.

 

[Imurg]

The only relevance is to differentiate between clubs.
Even having lofts on the sole is meaningless as 2 irons with the same loft can go very different distances.

 

[Voyager EMH]

40 years of Ping progress


EDIT: Made an error here. Ping Eye 2 4-iron is 25° and the 5-iron is 28.5°

 

[Oddsocks]

40 years of Ping progress

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Aimed at the bed wetters!!!

Also explains why Bryson is longer than me

 

[PJ87]

40 years of Ping progress

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I'd bet that 5 iron is a darn sight easier to hit than the old 3 iron mind

 

[Voyager EMH]

I'd bet that 5 iron is a darn sight easier to hit than the old 3 iron mind

There really won't be much difference in easier or more difficult to hit. Irons haven't changed that much - woods have changed a lot.



Very recently acquired this set. So I don't need a G730 set.

 

[Singlefiguregokfer]

Do people really care about what loft clubs have?
Don’t you all just get on with your own games without caring about other people’s clubs/games?

 

[Voyager EMH]

Do people really care about what loft clubs have?
Don’t you all just get on with your own games without caring about other people’s clubs/games?

Something I started to do last year.
In a social round, if someone asks, "What did you hit there?" I tell them the loft. It is by far the best answer. The number on the sole means not-a-lot.
The fact that they ask shows they do care about what irons others have.

 

[Singlefiguregokfer]

Something I started to do last year.
In a social round, if someone asks, "What did you hit there?" I tell them the loft. It is by far the best answer. The number on the sole means not-a-lot.
The fact that they ask shows they do care about what irons others have.

I imagine they think you’re quite strange quoting the loft