First Look: Ping’s new 2024 PLD Milled putter series

Tour Validated’s Wadeh Maroun became one of the first to test out Ping’s new 2024 PLD Milled putter series during a recent fitting at their Putting Lab in Phoenix, Arizona.

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I’ve seen some people where the balls are so far back and it’s like well that’s why you’re down four so let’s move that ball position a little further forward but you’re a good golfer so that’s not a change I would make if I had a beginner golf in here and I saw a

Minus four and I saw the ball back I’m going to tell him to adjust that um you need to screen clip that he said I’m a good golfer all right Please hey guys welcome back to Tool validated here with James uh we’re in the lab we’re in the putting lab here at ping headquarters really excited about it Ping’s got some new PL Putters that they want to showcase and we want to show to you guys as well but in that

Time we thought why not do a fitting with me and see what it’s all about um James Master fitter over here at ping is going to go through the steps with me and I’m really excited to see what you’re going to go through looking forward to see what you’re going to fit

Into yes sir I want to get on that leaderboard remember to like the video and also subscribe let’s get stuck in all right right James so what are the first steps when you come to this beautiful putting Lab at ping where like where do we start with this fitting so

I’m going to ask you a series of questions yep and that’s how we’re going to kind of get started to get ready to do and kind of static questions okay all right so first thing is do you have any Miss Tendencies tend to miss to the

Right I said I would say I push more to the right mainly on 5ot putts as far as Putters you like a blade a mid Mallet currently playing a oversized blade like the answer 2D y those kinds of sies Y and do you like a firm or a soft insert I much prefer

Deep Milling so a softer feel softer feel okay so what we’re going to do is we’re going to start I’m going to have you just warm up with our new plg answer 2D okay very cool so give me a couple of rolls with that and you can roll those five just to

Get used to it okay while I put in some more information for you now how does the app when I put this app on the shaft it’ll calculate and then when I talk about everything that’s going to happen here we’ll see if he has a high enough score consistency score to

Get on the board gota which is unlikely right Victor being seven you never know I just made four out of five putts okay that’s why I was asking so the thing with this app is the app doesn’t know if you made any putts got it it’s just based on your stroke

Got it and how consistent you are so you can make every Putt and I can make every putt we have two totally different scores totally I’ll talk about that in a bit this putter felt really good by the way did it feel good to you all right

Bit long but it felt great I’m going to put this app on here okay and then it’s going to produce some numbers and we’re going to talk about all those numbers all right five puts again okay and we’ll talk some numbers just go whenever you’re ready just go man just Go all right good score is it really it is oh sweet so let’s take a look at some of these numbers and then we’ll talk about the video that I captured while you were so again this is a consistency app doesn’t know where the hole is at

Just based on your stroke y so overall you’re a plus 1.6 okay when it comes to consistency and putting okay the one the plus 1.6 is accumulated by the averages of these five categories okay which we want to go over now so closing angle 6.9 this is how much rotation you have when

You start your down swing till you make impact with the ball okay all right the reason why this is important is because there’s three types of Strokes you can have a straight slight or strong three types of Putters straight being a face balance putter something that’s face

Balance like this yep then we have something that is a slight Arc which would be something like the answer yep and then you’d have something that’s a strong Arc you might not see as much to hand cuz it’s a little bit larger sure like the alley yeah so typically if it

Was just a little bit smaller head more yeah makes sense the reason why this is important is because if you have rotation in the strong art category and you decide you want to play a face balanced putter y you might have a tendency to miss your putts left cuz

You’re rotating just the opposite if you don’t have a lot of rotation and you’re more of a straight back straight through and I put you in something like the alley what’ll happen is you’ll open up and it could stay open because you don’t have and then if you do then you’re just

Fighting the forces right so that’s why it’s important to get you fit into the right style of putter interesting for your stroke yeah very cool so you’re right in that slide AR category okay and close to the strong Arc okay so I know you said your tendency to miss is a

Little bit right but you have enough rotation so it could be something else that’s causing that besides that could could be right got it so impact angle so some people are closed some are open some are square doesn’t matter where you’re at as long as you’re consistent and you’re a plus two

Co so pretty consistent here this just means you’re a left aimer y so if you are my Target and I’m like this I’m exaggerate I’m going to have to go this way so I’m I’m closed at my impact got it so nothing wrong with that but very

Good there y Tempo 2.1 averag is 1.8 to about 2.0 okay so close so anything slower than that y we want to put someone into a heavier putter okay so this is what we use to fit for head weight okay so saying you were at 2.6

And I put you in an answer yeah what could happen is with your slow tempo you take it back and it’ll tend to walk on you it’s too light yeah so we need to get you something a little bit heavier yep so it keeps you a little more stable

Solid right got it just the opposite if you have a fast tempo you don’t want to put someone in a real heavy putter got it you want to have it a little bit lighter for them okay so this is important because we fit for head weight

Yep L angle 19 standard is 20 and if you look here I did a little video here yeah and it shows where the heel and the toe is y so you can barely see it but that heels up in the air a little bit little

Bit so we want to get that we want that level so we got to bring that toe just a little bit so I’d probably go one degree upright for you just to get you back at level yeah and then shaing minus5 not a big deal there okay you’re but you’re

Hitting the ball into the ground a little bit and what could happen is it could start skidding so that means probably go to more of like a 71 uh yeah that that’d be a little bit much I would just maybe do half a degree just add a little bit so the ball starts

Rolling we don’t want it skting and we don’t want it hopping it we want to start rolling first got it so that’s why that’s important also so any questions on these areas that we just covered no makes total sense like I I get it I’m

Glad I did okay um I was expecting to be house but um no looks good to me I I think it makes sense on the slight Arc yes which would be so the reason why this would be really good for you yeah slide Arc cuz you’re in this category

But also a little slower Tempo a little heavier than answer and I do much prefer a heavier putter right so that’s good right there so let’s talk about the video that I captured so this is where I check to see if your eyes are inside the ball outside the ball right over the

Ball okay cuz this determines the length yep right so I know you’re gripping down already like a 36 in putter or something well it’s 35 so you griped down to like 33 and 1/2 y statically you fit into 34 but like you said you’re hunched over a

Little bit more so we go a little shorter okay but if you look at your eyes just past the ball just a little bit is that too much no it’s not too much at all I mean you’re still over it but it’s just on the other side of the

Ball got it ideally we like to see you just inside okay so going to maybe a 34 would get you a little further back right so and your arms are going straight down the shaft which is great okay so what could happen is if you’re too far outside the ball I’m going to

Exaggerate here you’re right here you could see the hole at an angle got it and doesn’t matter whether you’re left eye right eye dominant or anything like that no okay and just the opposite if you’re too far away from the ball yeah so if I’m too far away and you’re my

Target now I’m seeing you over here so I might tend to push it out got it right okay but I I wouldn’t make a change other than when you grip down you look like you grip down to about 33 y or 33 and a half and it probably take you to a

34 which is way you statically fit anyway yeah makes sense so you’re fine with that yeah so that’s good um looking at here you’re I mean the ball position is kind of right in the middle so this right here this minus5 is not affected by your ball position okay I’ve

Seen some people where the balls are so far back and it’s like well that’s why you’re down four so let’s move that ball position a little further forward but you’re a good golfer so that’s not a change I would make if I had a beginner

Golf right here and I saw a minus four and I saw the ball back I’m going to tell him to adjust that um you need to screen clip that he said I’m a good golfer all right please please screen clip that Josh thank you but you’re good

Golfer you’re a good golfer so other than that this all looks great yeah and this is really good as well very consistent everything is green so okay awesome that was a really red experience James thank you so much for letting me be part of that and get to to do this is

I know it doesn’t a lot of people don’t get to this so it’s really appreciated picking up a new line of PD Putters that are going to be coming out they’re available now as this video is released there’s five new Putters in there there’s the answer and the answer 2D and

There AO 3 the blue 4 and the d72 perfect so guys jump on to Fairway jockey and check them out ping are doing some great things with their Putters they’ Got Deep Milling inside of them very soft feeling putter um I can’t wait to try to gain one so yeah make sure you

Like the video make sure you subscribe and I’ll see you guys next time but you’re a good golfer so that’s not a change I would make um you need to screen clip that he said I’m a good golfer right please please screen clip that Josh thank you