New PING G400 Driver Spotted on Tour

[Buckeyebowman]

6 hours ago, phillyk said:

This article is a great in depth look at the G400.

https://mygolfspy.com/2017-ping-g400-drivers-2/

A quick summary of the main points.  They changed the aerodynamics, based on the fact that the heel leads the toe of the face on the downswing, which ultimately led to a 445cc head among something else I don't know how to explain.  This size/arrangement allows greater clubhead speed on the down swing.  The other main point is sound.  I guess the engineers created a sound that is "pleasing" to hear. So, as some previous models were loud, you might instinctively flinch before impact.  But, with a more pleasing sound, you would swing through and get more speed.

I suppose this makes sense. Some years back a club company, i don't remember which, introduced a Driver that produced a sound like an aluminum bat hitting a softball! I found it quite disturbing! You heard this sound around the course for a couple of years, and then it completely disappeared! Nobody, even the users of the club, liked it.

[Vinsk]

On 7/10/2017 at 9:56 PM, Buckeyebowman said:

I suppose this makes sense. Some years back a club company, i don't remember which, introduced a Driver that produced a sound like an aluminum bat hitting a softball! I found it quite disturbing! You heard this sound around the course for a couple of years, and then it completely disappeared! Nobody, even the users of the club, liked it.

I think several did that yeah? The Adams Redline, Cobra had a loud one, Callaway BBII was pretty loud too. Oh, and the Nike SQ series were loud. I remember that sound. You're right, it was just like an aluminum bat!

[mvmac]

Hearing great things about the way the G400 sounds/feels. 

[saevel25]

6 hours ago, mvmac said:

Hearing great things about the way the G400 sounds/feels. 

Dah, why do they come out with a new driver when I juts got my BB Epic Sub Zero this year ;). I went to that club because of the sound and feel.

[dennyjones]

1 hour ago, saevel25 said:

Dah, why do they come out with a new driver when I juts got my BB Epic Sub Zero this year ;). I went to that club because of the sound and feel.

they knew you still had $$ in your wallet!  

[Buckeyebowman]

11 hours ago, dennyjones said:

they knew you still had $$ in your wallet!  

I second that emotion!

Not really on topic, but not entirely off it either, I once read an article about all the blind golfers, and blind golfer's societies and clubs extant in America. These were folks who were otherwise fully enabled except for their inability to see. Yet, they played golf with the assistance of a helper.

The author then went on to contrast this with the relative paucity of deaf golfers and deaf golfer's societies! They can see, which one might assume to be the most necessary sense to play golf, but they can't hear. And very few of them play golf! Interesting.

I'm 64, and there are sounds now absent from golf courses that I miss! Back when persimmon would contact balata, drivers sounded like rifle shots! Another sound I miss is real steel spikes crunching in gravel or clacking on concrete! You could be blind and know exactly where you were!