Ping G440 K Driver

[Tashyboy]

I know !

But (how much) does it *help* ???

BTW : I actually slice *only* with the driver !?

My advice, go to the range and film yourself with the camera/ phone pointing the direction you are hitting. Then slowly look at your swing path.
I was sat on a plane and deleting hundreds of photos and videos. I came across three videos of me on the range and had a good look at them. I was massively coming over the top. And had been doing it for a couple of years. When I played the video slow, you could see my right shoulder pushing forward. I have consciously tried to stop that and also focus on hitting more through the ball. When it is right the difference is not 10-15 yards but well over 50.

 

[Jamie23]

Interested to know how you get on with it. My last three drivers have been Taylormade and my M2 is getting on a bit. Undecided whether to stay with them or switch to Ping

Interested to know how you get on with it. My last three drivers have been Taylormade and my M2 is getting on a bit. Undecided whether to stay with them

Interested to know how you get on with it. My last three drivers have been Taylormade and my M2 is getting on a bit. Undecided whether to stay with them or switch to Ping

Tried it on Saturday. Definitely a big improvement over my current XR16

Major thing I noticed was a lot less drop off on the mishits. Ping seemed to be going about 20 yards further on the not so good strikes.

Unsure whether it’s worth the extra money over the standard G440, would need to demo them side by side but will definitely be a big improvement on my current driver no matter which one I went for

 

[Klimski]

Oops: there are two things you can do: get an extremely draw biased driver and hope that works - however, this is a bit of a patch: it wil engrain your swing fault by masking it. OR, better: get three lessons on driver only from a pro, and also ask them what club would suit you. So, fitting and lessons combined.

 

[Orikoru]

Golf is a confidence thing.
If you're ab,e to look down on any club and it breeds confidence in you then you're going to swing it better than looking down on something you really don't like.
Some minds work like that, some don't..
No right or wrong answers....I couldn't use the 2 tone TM drivers of a few years back.
The look just messed with my head as did the white headed ones.

For me that confidence comes from hitting it and seeing that it works.

The only time I think it really matters to me what I'm looking at is with putters, because there are some wildly different looking putters out there. But drivers pretty much all look the same to me.

 

[Burnsey]

For me that confidence comes from hitting it and seeing that it works.

The only time I think it really matters to me what I'm looking at is with putters, because there are some wildly different looking putters out there. But drivers pretty much all look the same to me.

Confidence for me comes from consistency - I get quicker as I play a round if all going well...

On the looks, I disagree a little in that they all look the same. I hate a mahoosive looking driver and some are smaller, or disguise their volume better than others. But, as said, I am not a fan of matt finish heads, so Ping tend to fall away on that point alone.

 

[Tashyboy]

So me brother went for a fitting for some new irons. He has been playing with some borrowed hybrid type irons and he hits the ball beautifully. A lovely shot shape and everything. So when he went for the fitting, the fitter tried to get him to buy irons and not the hybrids. He wasn’t having any of it. One of the reasons is he gets the shanks, but has never had them once with these hybrids. Don’t ask me why that is. But he has said “ he don’t mind how pig ugly they are, I know I will not get the shanks with them”.
I think for him, the results of hitting the ball well over ones the look of the clubs. He has said “ they look no different to a normal hybrid so why be so upset re looks”. At the moment he is still hitting the borrowed hybrid irons so lord knows when or if he will get new ones.

 

[Jamie23]

Can get a 2nd hand very good G440 Max for £370 or £521 for the G440 K new.

Decisions, decisions

 

[KenL]

Can get a 2nd hand very good G440 Max for £370 or £521 for the G440 K new.

Decisions, decisions

Have you tried one against the other?
My 1 hcp mate who plays a g440lst tried the 440k on the course (same shaft) and thought it wasn’t great.

 

[Golfnut1957]

Can get a 2nd hand very good G440 Max for £370 or £521 for the G440 K new.

Decisions, decisions

I bought a second-hand G440 Max last week, and 3 rounds in, I'm loving it.

I was using a Mizuno ST 230 Z, which has a slight fade bias. This suited me as I prefer a left-to-right shot. Unfortunately, in a strong left-to-right wind or ,with a less than stellar shot, the "fade" could get out of hand.

The Ping was bought with a more neutral flight in mind, and it hasn't disappointed. Bad shots will be bad shots, but everything else has an eerie tendency to find the fairway. Plus, the forgiveness is exceptional; shots from the extremes of the face lose hardly any distance at all, and speaking of distance, it is more than acceptable.

It looks good if you don't mind turbulators; I actually like them, and it sounds and feels better than anything I have ever encountered from Ping.

One last thing. I watched a video which claimed that the movable weight at the back wasn't primarily for changing flight bias but for relocating the CoG and the mass behind your most prominent miss. If you look at it, the movement between Fade Neutral and Draw is about 10 mm, which to my mind, can only have a negligible impact on the flight.

My regular miss is high toe, so I placed the weight in the faded setting, and now that high toe miss appears to fly longer and straighter than before. Worth a thought.

 

[Jamie23]

Have you tried one against the other?
My 1 hcp mate who plays a g440lst tried the 440k on the course (same shaft) and thought it wasn’t great.

Tried the G440 Max on course as a friend has one and tried the K version on the driving range so difficult to compare

 

[kp17]

All you hear is good things everywhere re. Pings latest clubs but these drivers in particular

 

[Bucktaylor64]

Have been in the past quite partial to a ping driver, but now never look at them as I just don’t like looking down at those turbulators. I might be cutting my nose off to spite my face but I have to like the look of my driver.

Forget looks! If it works buy it!