My Ping Fitting

[wmiller]

Ping was at my home course today, and I decided to try some of the new offerings and do a formal fitting. We did the static fitting, which showed a silver dot, .5 over as a starting point. When the rep asked me what I currently played, I told him S57s white dot, .5 over. He looked at me and said "ok, why don't you hit a few for me, and we'll check your ball flight." So I hit 3 or 4 balls, all of which moved left 10 or more yards. He asked me if this was my normal flight, where I was aiming, and what my target was. He didn't like the fact that I was having to aim 30-40 feet right of my target, and asked me if I was intentionally trying to move the ball that much right to left. I said "no, I'm trying to hit half that." So he put me on a lie board, with a white dot, and I was dead center (the ball hooked left). He frowned, gave me a green dot, and asked me to hit another one. Dead center on the bottom of the club, with the ball not moving quite so far left. He said "well this isn't going to work, you're just adjusting to whatever club I hand you." So he got rid of the lie board and just started handing me clubs and watching my ball flight. When the ball started going dead straight, we stopped. We ended up at blue dot, plus .5, which is only 1 deg upright, I think. Then we started trying different irons. I tried the Ansers, S56s, i15s, and G20s. Best ball flight and best feel was the S56s. Worst was the G20s. Sorry guys, I just can't hit those things. S56s, blue dot, plus .5", and C-tapers, stiff will be my next irons. :)

[Mr. Desmond]

Congrats - sounds like the Ping guy has intelligence and experience.

[wmiller]

I've met and talked to him before. I think he's the west coast rep?

He told me he'd be back in Feb., with the i20 driver. He thinks I'm gonna love that thing.  Hope so, because my current i15 is a tad too much fade biased for me. If I'm the least bit late to the ball, it goes right. Always.

Maybe I should hold off and try the i20 irons... Didn't think of that till just now. Hmmm....

[mvmac]

Good news then, the i20 will have a neutral face and neutral weighting.  i20 irons will be a cross between S56's and the G20's