Ping k15 Review

Ping drivers are known to promote faster ball speed across the clubface. To that end, the Ping K15 Driver boasts a large face profile and high moment of inertia (MOI). Ping K15 Driver's bread and butter, though, is to help guys rotate the clubface to a more square impact position and, subsequently, hit straighter shots. The Ping K15 Driver head tries to "square up" dynamically (as you swing) due in part to a meaty, heel-side external pad along the sole.

The key to making that happen is Ping's Straight Flight technology, which is essentially a weight positioned near the heel of the Ping K15 Driver which encourages the face to square at impact.

"As you start to swing down, the weight wants to rotate the Ping K15 Driver head and close it to square," said Solheim. "The nice thing is that the K15 doesn't have a draw face or a closed head, so it really doesn't want to go past the square position. It really just wants to go back to square and stay there."

To lower the club's center of gravity and help golfers get the ball into the air more easily, the crown of the Ping K15 Driver was made especially thin. In some areas it is about the width of two business cards.

"We've tried other stuff, but we keep coming back to the traditional shape that's been evolving since the Ping G2 driver," Solheim said. "We've been pretty successful with that shape and haven't seen a big reason to go too far from it."

While the Ping K15 Driver and the G15 are both 460cc heads, the K15 will play bigger. "It's got a larger profile when you look down at it," Solheim points out. "Its face is also larger."

The K15 drivers are arriving in pro shops now in 9.5°, 10.5° and 12° lofts.

Let our charts be your guide on this one.  If you’re the kind of golfer who fights a slice, frequently misses to the right, or simply can’t achieve any degree of consistency with your current driver, then absolutely, you should be looking at the Ping K15 Driver.  If however, you miss, left, or don’t miss much at all, then realistically, there is very little reason for you to look at the Ping K15 Driver. Fortunately, the G15 and I15 are also part of PING’s current driver lineup.  If the Ping K15 Driver doesn’t suite you, there’s a good chance one of those will.