Ping K15 Driver Review

Ping K15 Driver is designed for golfers who are seeking high forgiveness, long distance and high accuracy. Combining a large-profile 460cc head and a club face that is longer heel to toe, K15 Driver provides low and back center of gravity which helps to create strong trajectories and low backspin, leading to high MOI. The MOI is sizeable for consistent performance across the hitting surface. The most important technology incorporated in Ping K15 Driver is Straight Flight Technology, called SF Tec by Ping. Ping K15 Driver use SF Tec to move 10% of the head’s mass to the heel, promoting more face rotation and a straighter ball flight. This technology is an innovation of Ping and helps K15 Driver a lot to square the club face for consistently straight tee shots. For the part of shaft, Ping K15 Driver adopted TFC 149D shaft. Ping K15 Driver utilizes a special carbon shaft and high balance point technology. The gravity of the shaft is 2” higher than standard design, increasing the start speed and MOI for longer distance and more accurate.

  Our testers say: Ping K15 Driver is one of the best drivers for feel, playability and distance. The head is designed for higher accurate and forgiving. Some testers gain up to 10 to 15 yards with Ping K15 Driver. It realizes the least distance loss on less than perfectly struck shots. Ping K15 Driver focuses on straightness, and it did that. The K15 allows good stability across the entire face. With Ping K15 Driver, players rarely lose shots to the right. Ping K15 Driver becomes the best antidote for the slicers. For the part of its look, many testers hold the opinions that the massive and elongated crown of Ping K15 Driver inspires confidence, and the small visual aid on crown draws some praise.

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New Ping G20 Driver for All Ability Levels

The clubs made by Ping become better and better because they are made based on the success of predecessors. This new Ping G20 Driver is further improved by combining the best qualities from two of their drivers from last season, the K15 and G15. Ping has a staunch following that borders on fanaticism yet they always offer clubs that may look ‘plain’ or ‘boring’ but lately their designs are slowly emerging from those shells while still maintaining their core values. This Ping G20 Driver is designed for players of all abilities, featuring large exter­nal weight­ing that helps launch the ball high with low spin for max­i­mum dis­tance and accu­racy. 

At the mention of Ping G20 Driver, many golfers will think of its high-balance-point TFC 169D shaft which helps a lot in its improvements. The shaft enables golfers to swing a club head with more mass at the same speed, cre­at­ing a higher MOI and gen­er­at­ing faster ball speeds for long, straight drives. You may choose either a TFC 169D or TFC 169D Tour shaft to produce a softer feel. When compared head-to-head against the previous G15, the G20 produces a 0.75 degree increase in launch angle, with 200 RPM less spin, and 1MPH increased ball speed off center hits. The 460cc clubhead is made from Ti 8-1-1, a lighter, lower-density alloy. Ti 8-1-1’s high strength-to-weight ratio allows for additional weight to be strategically located, increasing the MOI on both the vertical and horizontal axis.

Ping G20 Driver appears at the recent Open Cham­pi­onship. With nine being used, it has become the most popular model. John A. Solheim, PING Chairman & CEO, said, “Our engineers optimized the clubs to fit and benefit golfers of all skill levels.  In the driver, we’re using for the first time a titanium alloy called Ti 8-1-1, which allows us to improve the weighting to better optimize the entire clubhead.”

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PING Rapture V2 Driver Review

    Started with putters, technology-leading PING launched its new products at its 50^th anniversary with a hope to promote the interest in golf sports to a higher level, and provide products with more advanced technology. Ping Golf make their efforts to decrease the hit amount for golfers. Ping was set in 1959. The creator of Ping, Karsten Solheim, began his golf legend in the garage of his house at Redwood City. Recently, Ping released a series of 2009 products in Arizona including the entirely new Rapture V2 irons and woods, S57 irons and iWi putters.

    The new-generation Rapture V2 series products and iWi-series putter use composite technology and multi-material metal technology. Each new design combines features of various materials to create amazing performance. The all new and common material used in 2009 series products is tungsten metal. From driver to putter, tungsten of different proportion has been adopted in the most proper position of clubhead to promote products to the best. In addition, various specs options are provided. Ping provides unexpected performance through its customization concept. Rapture V2 titanium driver has the thinnest crown Ping has ever produced. This thinnest position is just 0.02 inches, which is thinner than G10 series. Because of the ultra-thin crown of PING Rapture V2 Driver designers were able to redistribute saved weight to adjust the center of gravity. Tungsten weights were embedded into Rapture V2 heel and toe. The company said that it can help produce higher trajectory, and decrease ball spin speed (400-600 per minute). To high-level golfers, higher launch angle and lower spin speed mean more distance. Ping Man, the club test robot of Ping, used this PING Rapture V2 Driver and created its “personal farthest launch record”. Rapture V2 has louder sound which means more strength.

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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.

A Close Look at K15 Driver

Last year Ping released two new drivers, the i15for players who like to work the ball off the tee and the G15 for players who wanted slightly more forgiveness and a higher launch angle for more distance.

Now, for players who simply want to cream the ball as far and as straight as possible, the company has released the Ping K15 Driver.

When Ping's club designers and engineers, including Vice President John K. Solheim, decided to make a new super game-improvement driver, they saw that most of the clubs already on the market have closed faces. That made sense because many golfers in the market for super game-improvement drivers are slicers.

"But what we thought these players really wanted was to aim at a target and hit the ball in that direction," Solheim said. "So when we designed the Ping K15 Driver, that's what we had in mind. Let's just create a driver that is really easy to hit straight."

The Ping K15 Driver features patent pending Straight Flight Technology that uses an extreme external weight pad to move 10% of the Ping K15 Driver head mass towards the heel. By repositioning the centre of gravity this provides a natural rotation through impact. The design of the K15 driver means that the external sole weight pad is largely concealed. The Ping K15 Driver is part of the latest expansion of PING's award-winning product line. PING has revealed its new Ping K15 Driver, part of its new range of clubs that also includes the K15 fairway woods, irons and hybrids. 

The Ping K15 Driver has a larger 460cc head design that moves weight away from the clubface to push the centre of gravity backwards and provide a higher trajectory. By increasing the length from heel to toe Ping have also been able to create a larger surface to provide high levels of forgiveness and higher ball velocity.

Drive the Ball Straighter and Longer

Assisted by the Ping innovation of Straight Flight Technology (SF Tech), the Ping K15 Driver places approximately 10% of the head mass into the heel of the club, helping to square the club face through the hitting zone for consistently straight tee shots.

The Ping K15 Driver is also able to offer distance gains by combining a large-profile, 460cc head, and a club face that is longer heel to toe. The MOI is sizeable for consistent performance and forgiveness across the hitting surface. This design positions the center of gravity low and back to generate high launch and low spin.

Ping i15 Driver Review

    With professional hitting trajectory, Ping i15 is especially designed for golfers of mid and low handicap. Ping i15 Driver is the best choice for golfers who have high demand for launching. With traditional pear-shaped 460cc titanium head, i15 has a radian on the head top which can better energy transfer to increase ball speed and at the same time provide solider hitting feel. The face radian has been increased horizontal and vertical to decrease backspin and produce professional hitting trajectory. PING engineers provide slightly heavier shaft for fast swing golfers for stable hitting feel and increased hitting distance. Each kind of flex is designed for meeting golfers’ demands. R flex shaft is a little bit light and has larger torque to satisfy golfers who want to realize high trajectory while S flex shaft is slightly heavy and has smaller torque, which can decrease back spin and produce ideal launch angle. The radian design of Ping i15 Driver head top and face can increase hitting distance. Meanwhile, it can also provide solider hitting feel and perfect hitting sound. I15 Driver face is designed larger. Wider clubface and pear-shaped profile are able to inspire confidence for skilled golfers. The face radian has been enlarged horizontally and vertically and the face thickness of Ping i15 Driver is thinner to enhance ball speed and hitting distance. The saved weight from clubface is redistributed to more proper position to achieve optimal center of gravity location as well as launch angle.

    You can find the feel of tour professional golfers when you swing this Ping i15 Driver off Tee. With radian design for head top and clubface, this Ping driver is fit for golfers who demand more for launching. That is to say, i15 is especially designed for high-level golfers. Through traditional pear-shaped look and deep face, this 460cc i15 can complete power transfer to the ball nicely. The inner weight ports are placed far from face, which can decrease backspin and enhance club control for flight trajectories up to Tour level. I15 keeps exceptional forgiveness, which is an advantage many tour drivers don’t have.

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G20 Driver Brought Luckiness

If you typed the words Tom Lewis into Google at the start of last week, you would have been directed towards the services of a famous UK urban artist.

Come Thursday evening at around 6pm, it was England’s bright new blonde bombshell who was all the rage across media platforms, painting his own pictures amidst the backdrop of momentary Kent sunshine.

Lewis printed his name at the top of the first-round leaderboard alongside Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn by brushing his way around the quirky links of Sandwich with an opening 5-under 65 - to become the first amateur to lead the Open since Michael Bonallack at Carnoustie in 1968.

The 20-year-old sensation might have failed to strike gold over the next three days with rounds of 74, 76 and 74 but he certainly settled for the next best, claiming the Open Championship’s Silver Medal for the lowest amateur. Carrying a bag of 14 Ping clubs when, in just his 3rd European Tour event as a professional, the former Walker Cup star went out and stunned the field by winning the Portugal Masters.
His historic achievement, which broke Tiger Woods's record of winning in his 5th start as a professional, was made to look all that much better by the ice-cool, almost ruthless way in which he swept past the three faltering front runners in the final round with a blistering 65.

“I absolutely loved every minute of the Open and won’t ever forget what I did on the first day,” said Lewis. “It was shame to fall back over the final few days but to win the Silver Medal is a great honor.”

The links specialist, who won the British Boys at St George’s in 2009, struck the ball off the tee to an average of 308 yards with his brand new ping g20 driver - available at retail next month.

The ping g20 driver has a much heavier head than the successful G15 driver to create greater force at impact, as Lewis discovered at Sandwich. The ping g20 driver also has 5% higher moment of inertia on heel or toe hits - perfect for even the Sunday hacker.
The ping g20 driver that carried him through to victory and the two-year Tour exemption that comes with it were as follows:

Lewis's clubs

- ping g20 driver 9.5 (Aldila Voodoo XNV6 shaft) Club head speed 112mph)

- Ping G5 3 and 5 fairway woods (Aldila XVS7 & NV75X shafts)

- Ping S56 irons (3 to PW X100 Step Strong, Std length Black Colour Code, All grips, id8 ½ Cord white

- Ping Anser Wedges Red Lie 52, purple lie 58

- Ping Scottsdale Wolverine H putter (33.5" Red Lie) 

Lewis Used G20 Driver on Open Championship

Tom Lewis, a professional golfer from Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, England, won at the Portugal Masters on the European Tour in October 2011, shooting rounds of 70, 64, 68 and 65 to finish two shots clear of the field. This was his third professional start.

This time, he won the silver medal with his Ping G20 Driver. Come Thursday evening at around 6pm, it was England’s bright new blonde bombshell that was all the rage across media platforms, painting his own pictures amidst the backdrop of momentary Kent sunshine. Lewis printed his name at the top of the first-round leaderboard alongside Denmark’s Thomas Bjorn by brushing his way around the quirky links of Sandwich with an opening 5-under 65 - to become the first amateur to lead the Open since Michael Bonallack at Carnoustie in 1968. The 20 years old sensation might have failed to strike gold over the next three days with rounds of 74, 76 and 74 but he certainly settled for the next best, claiming the Open Championship’s Silver Medal for the lowest amateur. Lewis finished as the second highest Englishman, embarrassing the likes of Luke Donald and Lee Westwood who missed the halfway cut, by performing admirably with his new PING weapons to tally 9-over in a tie for 30th.

In Lewis’s bags, there are Ping G20 Driver (Aldilla shaft), Ping G5 fairway wood (Aldilla shafts), Ping S56 irons, Ping TOUR-S wedges and Scottsdale Wolverine-H Putter. With his brand new Ping G20 Driver Lewis struck the ball off the tee to an average of 308 yards. With a much heavier head than the successful G15 driver, Ping G20 Driver creates greater force at impact, which was discovered by Lewis at Sandwich. The driver also has 5% higher moment of inertia (MOI) on heel or toe hits. This is perfect for even the Sunday hacker. Lewis also found more greens than the field’s average at 57% with his PING S-56 irons, featuring a steel body with variable tungsten toe weighting positions for higher-launching long irons and lower-trajectory short irons – perfect for the links.

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Mizuno MX700 Driver VS Ping G15 Driver

The available lofts:

MX 700 : The lofts available are 9.5, 10.5 and 12 degrees, With only the 9.5 and 10.5 degree models being available in right and left hand.

G15: The available lofts for the G15 Driver are 9, 10.5, 12, and 13.5 degrees.

Look:

MX 700: the head is a nice size not being too big or small, hot face, and the overall weight of the club is also just about perfect. It does feel good when you first stand over the ball with this Driver.

G15: With its 460cc titanium head, it must be one of the toughest and most durable Driver that is available on the market. The club-head sits behind the ball very well and it looks like a strong Driver, that can't help giving you a confident feeling.

Sound:

In the Mizuno MX700, there is just a solid thumping sound that you can't help but grow to love. There aren't many Drivers around that make a nicer sound at impact than this one. There isn't really much negative to be said about this model from Mizuno. Compared with G15, MX700 makes testers more hot and sound great!

Distance:

In terms of the distance that you can get, this was probably the longest Mizuno Driver we've played, despite the rather high trajectory that can often be produced. Most players will probably find the Mizuno MX700 around 20 yards further than the MX500 and the MX560 drivers on average, though overall it's still not quite as long as some other Drivers that are available today. Compared with the MX700, G15 owns longer and straighter. And this impressive distance is still there even when this club isn't hit that well. If you have a slightly inconsistent swing, you can still hit consistently long with the G15.

Feature:

Some testers found the MX700 to be surprisingly low spinning. For many golfers, keeping their spin down is always the greatest challenge, but that was not even an issue with the Mizuno. The launch angle was good, and so does the dispersion. And the price of the MX700 is cheaper than the G15.

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G10 Driver Experience

Perhaps no other brand has had as rich a history of combining forgiveness and performance. When Karsten Soleheim introduced his innovative perimeter weighted designs, the golfing world was rocked to its core and golf club technology reached a new level. With the introduction of the Ping G2 driver in 2003, Ping made a tremendous move to improve the performance of their drivers while still satisfying players who desired a more traditional shape and feel. Now in 2007, the latest version of Ping’s all titanium driver, the ping g10 driver has been introduced to the market to sit alongside its composite brother, the Rapture. Just how well does the ping g10 driver rate compared to  some of the other drivers on the market?

The ping g10 driver is the latest addition to the company’s popular “G” family. Ping has scored huge with this line over the years… the G2 and G5 clubs were very popular because they were an awesome combination of looks, performance and value. Can the ping g10 driver keep the momentum going? Let’s find out…

Engineers optimised the ping g10 driver's crown, sole and face structure to ensure maximum energy transfer to the ball. The 460cc driver features a larger profile with a taller face and deeper crown that produces a higher moment-of-inertia for greater forgiveness and increased ball velocity. Available with TFC 129D shaft flexes (Soft R, R, S and X) as well as Grafalloy ProLaunch Red and UST V2 High Launch 65 options. Loft options include 7.5, 9, 10.5,12 and 13.5 degrees. Also available in ping g10 driver draw version.

After the regulatory hand, finger and wrist-to-floor measurements, Nick Boulton - a PGA professional and the company's sales manager - had me hit a series of shots with a combination of shafts and lofts recorded on the Trackman computer tracking system.

Though my best clubhead speed (average 74.2 mph) was nearly 20mph slower than a regular Tour pro and my ball speed (99.2 mph) bore little resemblance to Tiger Wood's 150mph, I was still able to produce a respectable carry and roll-out distance of 210 -230 aydrs , considering my 11 handicap. And apart from the occasional blip, my dispersion (grouping of successive shots) was pretty consistent, too.

"As handicap golfers, almost everyone has different swings, in relation to the height, arm length and hand size. Our aim is to fit the clubs to the golfer, not the golfer to the clubs, " Nick told me. "We want you to play golf to the best of your ability, hit better shots more often and make it harder to hit bad ones."

G10 Driver Impression

Ping drivers have always had a great reputation for a solid and forgiving feel off the clubface. Many low to high handicappers have enjoyed the vibration-free feedback from shots - even miss-hits - from earlier G2 and G5 drivers.

The story behind the ping g10 driver is one of evolution not revolution. Technicians have spent hours studying how high MOI designs actually work. Their findings support the theory that high moi clubs don’t necessarily mean straighter drives. It remains fact that if shots are hit with an open or closed club face no matter what the moi you won’t get any help reducing side spin! 

Moi say the company “ping g10 driver was a consideration when designing the new driver, but not to the extent of ignoring other crucial elements which make up our complete performance driver.” So by concentrating on what’s important to golfers the company reckon they’ve developed a great sounding, cosmetically pleasing driver which delivers maximum distance and tons of forgiveness. 

But nothing stands still in golf technology and Ping are determined that even this strong reputation can be enhanced by delivering a little more height, a little more distance and improved overall performance.

I recently accepted an invitation to visit Ping's state-of-the art fitting centre at their European headquarters in Gainsborough, in which indoor bays open up on to an enclosed range, sheltered from much of North Lincolnshire's traditional breezes, in a bid to discover if the new ping g10 driver could deliver its promise.

Today I had a chance to spend some time with the Ping G10 Driver to form  some initial impressions.  The ping g10 driver has been out for quite some time now and I wanted to see how it compares to my current kit which is the new Cleveland 2009 Launcher.  For whatever reason, I hadn’t tried the G10 yet.  But I’ve always been partial to the Ping brand having played a G2 Driver in the past and their irons and wedges for years.

What Our Advisory Team Says...

The Ping G10 driver was a hit with our Advisory Team… although some wonder if there is really much of a difference between the G5 and G10…

The ping g10 driver feels good and sounds good, unlike some of the "odd" shape drivers.

 There are a handful of drivers at this price point with a better tech story.

 A "normal" looking driver, with above “normal” performance.  For my eye, the half moon alignment aid on top of the driver works a treat in helping correctly aim the clubface.

 Great ping g10 driver for the price!

The ping g10 driver performs well, although not a noticeable difference from G5 or G2.

 Very traditional driver with solid feel and good performance. MOI and forgiveness aren’t as high as others out there.

 Overall Advisory Team Rating - 82%