#Ping blueprint irons full#

As such, PING will likely wait until later in 2019 to further assess next steps for Blueprint. That said, PING believes the only way to gather enough evidence to evaluate the Blueprint is to let the best players in world test it under the toughest conditions over the course of a competitive season and see where the cards fall. There’s also the option, which PING has already seen take hold on tour, of a combo set with Blueprint in the scoring irons and a constellation of iBlade, i210, and i500 in the rest of the set.

#Ping blueprint irons full#

PING expects the full range of results with some players committing to a complete set, while others will find Blueprint to be too demanding and return to something a bit more comfortable. With a full retail release, it’s anyone’s best guess as to how the masses will receive Blueprint. In the fall of 2018, there were only a handful of sets available to touring professionals. They didn’t come right out and say that explicitly, it was more along the lines of “Hey, I don’t know exactly what I want the club to be, but here’s what I want it to be able to do.” What PING staffers articulated was a desire for something more workable than the iBlade. Those bits of information become the foundation for new product ideas – some of which eventually make it to retail. Major OEMs routinely engage with tour staff to gain feedback and meaningful insights. Historically, G-series irons assumed the role of game-enjoyment clubs with the I-series satisfying the needs of better players looking for more workability at the expense of some forgiveness.īlueprint, which sounds like an internal code name, is in some ways entirely different, yet still, everything we’ve come to expect from a PING iron. “ a bit of an extended R&D experiment,” says Paul Wood, VP of Engineering at PING. PING’s Blueprint iron, beginning with the name, was always destined to be something of a departure from convention.