Ping’s New Driver Blew Us Away in 1 All-Important Area | G430 Max 10K Robotic Insights

The PING G430 Max 10K has the full attention of pros like Tony Finau and Cameron Champ, according to our Fully Equipped team.

Jonathan Wall, Gene Parente, and Kris McCormack break down the results of Golf Laboratories’ comprehensive Robot Testing for this year’s new Ping product. It stands out for its forgiveness across the face in what we’re calling “The Year of the Driver.”

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With the name Max in it golfers are going to think all right so you’re just making the max more stable in this 10K product but here’s the deal this is not a a mid to high handicapper driver well ping has a new driver for 2024 but this

Isn’t a completely new lineup this is just merely an extension of the g430 more specifically the g430 max this is a really interesting driver because we’ve now started to see a few popup in the industry that have the word 10K this one actually has this is called the g430 max

Max 10K driver what the heck is the 10K people are going to see it and they’re going to obviously wonder what’s different than the max it’s referring to 10K Moi so when they measure Moi moment of inertia or essentially consistency with energy transfer across the face

When you miss it ping has been able to achieve that and package it into the g430 lineup in that g430 Max 10K so a little bit larger footprint as far as just how it sits compared to LST and g430 Max so has the carbon fly wrap that

We see in the LST but as far as the overall shape of the head it’s going to be a little more upright and also have a little more depth from face to the rear of the crown here when it comes to Performance you’re looking at something

That is going to be a little higher launching little higher spinning than current LST a little lower launching lower spinning canar to Max but you have something that is extremely stable so this is a little bit of a hybrid between current Max and LST a lot of golfers are

Going to be asking when they see Max next to Max 10K especially those that are already playing g430 Maxes where are the differences there are some differences here maybe the ones that maybe golfers aren’t quite considering let’s go to the numbers this was kind of a middle launch middle spin in regard to

Distance drop off very similar to the g430 max 8.1 yards versus 8.3 both exceptional both exceptional but here is where this driver gets interesting the bottom third of the club phase we do Center 3/4 tow 3/4 heel half inch high tow heel half in low tow heel when you

Go high on a driver you launch higher you spin less when you go low on a driver you launch lower and spin more what’s interesting about this driver is when we dropped from Center to low Center we maintained almost the same spin rate we went from 2700 to

2700 it just didn’t change when we launched low and so what that means is when you miss low and all of us miss low you don’t get penalized by those shots that go out low and spin well let’s put that into perspective a little bit because golfers might be wondering like

How much does spin generally change when you go low on the face and we saw it was anywhere between 200 to 400 RPMs and generally if you’re adding spin that’s going to take distance off of a lot of those shots unless you’re just really low launch already and you need some

More spin in your life but again for a guy that’s a Max product player this isn’t area where they’re constantly missing to be able to maintain spin down there that means you’re probably going to see pretty similar distances six yards drop off in distance on the 12 Dee

Which we saw across the board with most of the 12 degrees they’re the most forgiving because they get the ball highest in the air but this one had exceptional drop off in distance for its 12° with the name Max in it golfers are going to think all right so you’re just

Making the max more stable in this 10K product but here’s the deal this is not a a mid to high handicapper driver I was actually talking to Cameron Champ I would say the ball speed King out on the PGA tour and he’s using the max 10K

Driver right now and one of the things that he saw that we saw during robotic testing is very consistent spin numbers across the face particularly low on the face where he said that’s generally a miss spot for him um Chris there’s also another guy who’s been testing this

Driver I just watch you to throw this number out there so people can just be slack jaw for a second Tony fi out tested it that’s yeah when when truspec was over at ping HQ back in Phoenix we were doing some testing with some of the New Ping product and just so happened

Tony was at the range with us that day and he was doing his testing with the 10K putting up 203 204 mph ball speeds now the sound that a golf ball makes coming off of the face at over 200 M how I’m sure it it was impressive to say the

Least and the genuine reaction from Tony was fantastic I mean hitting the driver and watching it just hold the line as stay as it was at 204 mph which is a gear he doesn’t generally go to so he was impressed with it we were impressed

With it and the stability of it is I mean right there in the name so to see tour representation and then also help the Everyman it’s whenn in my book I think you nailed it the big thing with this is just a more stable consistent driver if you’re already using Max

You’re going to see pretty similar forgiveness numbers across the face which is what you want sure but the big thing here is that spin consistency and that’s going to generally Le to more consistent drives