Why This Surprise 2024 Driver Is Extremely Close To Being PERFECT!

Golf Monthly driver expert Joe ‘The Pro’ Ferguson tests the brand new Ping G430 Max 10k driver for 2024 on the launch monitor and the golf course to see how it performs and compares with the rest of the models in the range. Spoiler alert – he’s a big fan and thinks it could be as close to a perfect as we’ve ever seen! Be sure to watch to the end to find out why…

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This is the new ping g430 Max 10K driver now I’m really excited about this one so let’s just get on with It so what the Ping say they’ve delivered here well to start with they say it’s their most stable and forgiving driver ever and that’s where it’s got its name from the 10K part at least 10,000 is the measurement of its moment of inertia or stability within the club head and that’s pretty significant

Because most drivers in the modern era have plateaued around the 8,000 Moi Mark how has ping achieved this 10K measurement well to start with they’ve drastically changed the profile of the head they’ve stretched the heel and toe and the front to back measurements as far as the rules will permit while still

Staying within that 460 CC overall Dimension and I have to say I love the look of it The super rounded stretched head shape and extra real estate behind the ball really suit my eye and inspire a lot of confidence at address now because they’ve stretched this head so much that allows them to place the internal weight even further away from the face which is

Where the huge jumping Moi comes from in the max 10K this stability takes the form of an internal 28 G weight which is positioned lower and deeper not only for stability but also for spin control too and this is something I’m Keen to explore because in my experience

Dragging weight back and increasing Moi usually goes hand in hand with creating more spin or excessive Spin and for a high-speed player like me quite frankly that’s not much use so I’m really Keen to see how that pans out so before getting into the data I

Just wanted to talk about some of the unquantified viable things that you don’t get from a launch monitor like sound and feel and in terms of the sound I think they really nailed it here other drivers within the Ping range historically I’m thinking specifically about the g425 which was a brilliant

Driver but I thought it leted itself down a little bit with the acoustic and a lot of people felt that sort of high pitch Ting was a little bit annoying now ping to their credit addressed this in the g430 range and the ls Tech and the other models within this family are a

Lot more muted and duller and this is a touch Lively it sits somewhere between those two and for me it hits all the right notes going hand inand with that sound is the feel from the club face and wow the feel I can honestly say I don’t think I’ve ever hit anything as

Stable as the max 10K wherever I hit this thing on the face it’s resistance to twisting is Sensational it really took me by surprise this element of it I mean I’ve heard heard the marketing but until you see it yourself and you experience it you can all be a little

Skeptical right but I have to say in terms of stability and feel this delivers in bucket loads so what do the numbers say well this is where I started to get really excited obviously I’ve mentioned during testing I could feel the stability and the really tight dispersion but as I also mentioned this

Has historically come off with a bit of a trade-off for me in terms of excessive spin but not this time So from an average clubit speed of around my standard 120 M hour mark I was getting a really solid 174 mph of ball speed which from a driver as safe as this thing is exceptional I was launching exactly where I’d want to around the 11° mark and the all

Important spin number that I was eagerly anticipating was was was just under 2,500 revs per minute which from a club head with this level ofi is frankly astonishing now this all added up to an average carry for me of 293 yards and a total of 316 another big part of this story is

The dispersion now I noticed through my testing and I’m not known as a particularly straight driver of the golf ball if I’m honest but my left to right and even my front to back dispersion with the Ping Max 10K was ludicrously tight so I wanted to test it against

Some of the other models within the range I’ve got the LST and I’ve got the max head cuz I wanted to see where it’s stacked up from a dispersion point of view so starting with the the max model as you can see from the graphic dispersion was pretty tight I hit one

Where I just shut the face down and it it kind of zoomed off to the left a little bit but on the whole dispersion was pretty tight but I did achieve that with quite a high spin number so I was spinning that over well over 3,000 revs

So that’s something to note with the max range it is stable and you will get a nice tight dispersion but it will suit players who need a little bit more spin moving on to the LST well you can see straight away my dispersion has gone up certainly my distance my spin numbers

Are are more in line with what I would generally want to see but it does feel a little bit more volatile from a left to right perspective so again that’s something to be aware of and then finally I’ve got the 10K um I think I’ve said enough good things about this

Driver but I think this graphic says it all from left to right from front to back that’s a ludicrous dispersion pattern and I’ve not cherry-picked these I’ve just hit five shots straight out the bat in the same place with the same shaft and the same setup and the same

Balls and this is the data that’s come out and it’s what I’ve seen throughout testing now from the discussions I’ve had with ping and the engineers at ping they’re very smug about this driver and they’ve got every right to be now I think this driver will benefit just

Every genre of player from the weekend warrior to the Tour player everyone is going to benefit from this level of stability and playability and you’re just going to have to dial your spin numbers in with a really good fitting it comes in 9 10 and a half and 12° of Loft

So there really is something for everyone here the Ping g430 Max 10K might not just be my favorite driver of 2024 this might be the best all round driver that I’ve ever hit so it won’t surprise you to know it’s going straight in my bag for 2024