I have always had a great respect and admiration for Ping as a company and its products! Started with Eye2 and the Zing back in the day. I have had many different Ping products over the years all incredible performers. However I could never get along with the drivers. They either had a look or sound that wasn’t appealing or they didn’t perform for my swing too much spin, floaty trajectory with no penetration. So for the last almost 4 decades I’ve played drivers from various manufacturers recently playing Cobra’s and Callaway’s. I’m 63 and a competitive golfer. However I was starting to show the effects of age. Swing speed slowing, launch lowering and on our course which is usually soft that was a bad combination. Time to do something. Enter the G430LST! I had heard so many good things about the G430Max10K and its older brother the G430LST that when the opportunity came up to get one at a good price I reluctantly took it. I wasn’t really expecting much but was I in for a shock. Right out of the gate the ball jumped off the face with a ferocity I hadn’t seen in years. The flight was piercing and landed with the perfect trajectory to maximize roll. Mishits were straight with just a minimum loss of distance and direction. What surprised me the most was the sound! It sounded like a driver instead of an out of tune glockenspiel! Normally a good drive in the past would carry about 240 averaging in the low 230’s . Immediately I was averaging in the mid to high 240’s with a good drive carrying over 250. Since then I have been working on speed with the Stack system and my good drives are mid 260’s. Hopefully carrying 270 by spring. All of this with more fairways hit. Ping! I’m back!
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