Ping G430 MAX 10K Driver + Blueprint S Irons Unboxing

Ping G430 MAX 10K Driver + Blueprint S Irons Unboxing

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Clay Ballard

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All right it’s Christmas morning here ping just sent me a brand new box of clubs I’m not exactly sure what’s in here but I’m going to talk about some of the technology and why I pick these clubs why I choose the clubs that I do so let’s go ahead and unwrap these here

And uh let’s start with a big stick so they got a new 10K driver is been a really popular everybody’s excited about the new 10K driver release and what does that mean am I really going to hit it that much straighter with a brand new driver

Versus a dri it’s a few years old let me talk about you know what goes into that so g430 max 10K I’ll give you some good close-ups of the club head here I’ve hit this a couple times very similar look of what the last drivers were so if you

Like the look of the Ping clubs very similar I always like the way they look they seem really easy to hit a little bit thinner in the face here and one thing that they did so what 10K means it’s called moment of inertia and all that all that’s talking about is if you

Hit off the toe what happens in a normal shot if I hit off the toe that club is going to twist and when it twists open like that it shoots the ball offline and it also creates more spin if it’s off the toe it causes it hook if it’s off

The heel it causes it to slice well there’s a thing called moment of inertia that the usj limits in the rules of golf and it says it can only be 5900 so basically they move all the weight out of the head so this is like a carbon fiber super super light Crown they’ve

Taken weight out of every area of it and put it more toward the sides of the driver that way if you hit off the side or off center it doesn’t twist as much it’s actually incredibly tough to do you have to use really really light materials they have to be paper thin uh

These crowns are only the thickness of a few sheets of paper uh with the metal parts of the crown there’s all kinds of different things that go into it really tough to manufacture drivers that have that Moi to my knowledge this is as high or higher than anyi that’s ever been

Created in a golf club so it’s going to be the most forgiving golf club on paper that’s ever been developed now they’ve gone up over the years so if you’re playing a driver that’s 10 years old you’ll probably notice a significant difference when you go to a brand new

Driver if you’re playing last year’s model or the last model of ping drivers it’s going to be slightly different than that but it’s not going to be you’re not going to get an extra 20 yards there’s a myth out there that if I get a brand new

Driver I go from last year’s model to this year I go from tailor made to Ping to Titus to whatever I’m going to gain 20 yards just not going to happen unless you’re not fit for the club and that’s what Ping you know they’re really big on

Fitting so if you’re not fit properly and the driver just does not it’s not the right Loft it’s not the right shaft doesn’t fit you at all and you go to a brand new one that fits you perfect you might gain 15 or 20 yards but it’s really rare you’re basically just trying

To make it as easy as possible so 5900 from Heel To Toe has kind of always been the last several models of pings or going back pretty far have had that Heel To Toe Miss hit where this one because they got the crown so light with the

Carbon fiber and wrapped it around there to drop a lot of weight out of it and they thinned the and they made the face a little thinner the top to bottom Miss really went up so 10K that’s a total Moi that means Heel To Toe is 5900 and then

Top to bottom makes up the rest to get it over 10K so every year drivers are getting better not on Hill the toe misses you know Ping’s already maxed out on that but from top to bottom this is a little thin a little heavy you’re not

Going to see those thin shots that kind of balloon up and lose a lot of distance you’re you’re going to get better results on thin shots you’re going to get better results on ones that are a little bit high on the face but pretty D

Cool driver I like the feel of it uh just a great great one so the question that I get all the time is you know what type of shaft should I use I go get fit at a big fancy place they try to give me a $2,000 driver shaft and I’m walking

Out of there spending boatloads of money right is that really going to make me play any better better well in reality the driver Shaft or any shaft is really just maintaining loft is the main role of the shaft addition to that it’s just feel so what I mean by that is when you

Swing as my hands come into impact my hands are slowing down so I can release the club and this is not just with me this is every player that’s ever played and that shaft goes into something called lead deflection so if you imagine bending the shaft I’m going

To keep it like this if I bend the shaft this way so you can see there’s a bow in the shaft that’s happening with every driver shaft the lighter the flex I go so if I go from an extra stiff to a stiff to a regular to a senior to a

Ladies as I go less and less or more and more flexible less and less stiff there’s going to get more Bend or more lead deflection and all that does is as you go into lighter and lighter flexes it adds Loft because when this shaft flexes it adds Loft to the club head and

The ball is going to go a little bit higher same thing when I set the h on there this is the big mover so if I have a 9° driver and I set it to go up a degree and a half I turn it into a 10

And 1/2 degree driver or I turn it down to an eight or whatever I do that’s going to really adjust the height that that ball comes out of there much more than the shaft the shaft is kind of like fine-tuning the Loft gets you in the

Ballpark or where you need to be the shaft is going to fine-tune it if you buy a $1,000 golf shaft if it flexes the same as a $30 golf shaft that ball is going the same height really what you’re paying for in that thousand shaft unless you’re a player that wants a really

Light really stiff shaft there’s not a need for a crazy expensive shaft the really expensive materials that go into a shaft on those really high-end ones that are super super light they take weight out of the shaft so you can swim a little bit faster there is an advantage in that but it’s

Also if you want a stiff shaft an extra stiff that’s super light well you have to use these really high modulus materials that can be pretty expensive but to be honest most people don’t need an extra stiff or a double extra stiff UH 60 gam shaft it’s really going to

Perform pretty dag on good I mean the Ping shavs in themselves perform as good as any thousand shaft when you’re hitting them off a robot the stock shaft is going to be pretty dag on solid I use the Hazardous uh smoke shaft It’s a 65 G

I like light shaft I like them to be really low torqu this is a 2.8 torque and all the torque means is that the Club head like if I put this in a in a vice as I swing the toe is going to open up and then it’s going to release so

It’s basically twisting this way the shaft also twists that way I like a low torque shaft because it feels good to me it feels like I have a little more control over it if again if I put it on a road robot and I have a high torque

Shaft versus a low torque shaft they’re both going straight as a string so it really comes down to feel and what you prefer the feel of so me in particularly I like a really stiff shaft this is the the stiffest shaft that they had this is the stiffer shaft that’s that’s produced

It’s a it’s an extra stiff it’s got low torque which I like and then I also tip it which basically means I’ll cut a couple inches off the end of the shaft usually an inch and a half to make the the tip portion of it stiffer too and

All of that for me is trying to bring down the spin and bring down the launch lower because I tend to hit it way too high for most players though if you’re looking for more height the off the off the rack shaft is going to be perfectly

Good for you just get the right Flex get the right head settings go get fit so you make sure you know what you’re doing there and it’s going to be great as far as the heads nothing’s going to be more forgiving than the Ping the Ping 10K

Pretty D good club so excited to put that in the bag also have some new irons here I’ve been pretty excited about these too I had old the older model of blueprint irons they’re pretty pretty small like butter knives those things are really really small I am excited for

The new ping blueprint s which is kind of a middle ground between a blade blueprint original blueprint iron which is super thin sole super small head and a cavity back which right right now I play the I 230s which is much more uh cavity back bigger more forgiving this

Is like smack dab in the middle of those and when you look at these to me the head shape on this is perfect it’s not a big oversized head if you’re a better player and you’re looking for a club which maybe the the size and shape that

You played with growing up 20 30 years ago whatever it is it kind of gives that same look the top line here is nice and thin which is what you’re going to see with those blade irons and and you know just what you’re traditionally used to

If you look at the sole on these those are nice and thin so you’re going to get really good Turf interaction again geared more toward better players if you’re a player that wants the maximum forgiveness this is not going to be your choice you’re going to want to get a

Thicker wider sole that way if you hit a little bit behind it helps it to glide through the turf a little bit better the bigger head they can pull out have a higher Moi so again we talked about how important Moi is with a driver with an

Iron as you get a bigger and bigger head you can pull that weight out to the sides and you get higher Moi more forgiving so if you hit these a little off the toe or off the heel is going to be more forgiving than a blade but not

Nearly as forgiving as the more oversized irons they feel pretty dag on good these are made out of 8620 really nice soft irons and in these I’ve switched uh a little bit more away from what I did before I used to use a really stiff really heavy shaft to bring the

Ball flight down so I’d use like a dynamic gold X100 or I’d use the the SE taper I’ve using those I’ve started to go more toward KBS was my last shaft so that’s a fairly low launching it’s an extra stift shaft so it’s it’s not going

To get quite as high and I’ve done a lot of work to bring my ball flight down and now I’ve gone to a little bit of a lighter shaft so this is is a tour 105 actually a much lighter shaft I like lighter shafts so in my driver most

Players with my swing speed are going to use a 70 something gam shaft maybe an 80 g shaft I like a 65 G cuz the lighter you make the shaft the more I can feel the head in my opinion so this is a 105 G shaft very light shaft for me it’s

Going to go higher than what I’m traditionally playing uh but I like it because I can really feel where the head is so I can I can tell if I’m going to hit a little bit too much of a fade too much of a draw I can just sense if it’s

Barely open barely closed that’s my perception I know not everybody has that same feeling but that’s what I really like so I’ve dropped it down to 105 G shaft again the same thing there the lighter the shaft the less stiff shaft I get the higher the ball’s going to go if

I go heavier and stiffer the lower the ball is going to go so I’m kind of playing a stiffer shaft which in general goes fairly low but I’ve started to lighten it up which is fine tuning again getting it to go a little bit higher so

I’m kind of it’s kind of a blend there this is a really soft shaft too so these feel amazing aming these heads are soft with this combination it just feels amazing so this is my favorite grip of all time this is what Ping makes I don’t

Know what they do with it they have some some kind of special rubber in here but you can play these grips for a year and they feel like they’re brand new whereas a lot of them uh the multi compound grips they feel great when you first use

Them then they get kind of hard and Slick I don’t like that these seem to stay fantastic forever it’s called an id8 and always use a rib grip so basically at the bottom of the grip there’s a little extra piece of rubber there kind of makes it stick down like

This like a little notch in the bottom that sticks out and I’ll put those in the bottom and I like that because when I’m putting my hands on the club I can feel where that Ridge is and that just helps me to get the face uh nice and

Square I like to use a standard size grip if you go larger and larger grips I I kind of like that um you know if you go to like a midsize or an oversized grip it feels nice in the my hands but again I like to fill the weight of the

Head and if you go to a larger oversized grip the grip weighs more so as you get a heavier and heavier grip to me it makes it more difficult to feel where the head is so imagine you had like a 10 lb metal weight on the end of the club

That you’re holding on to like a dumbbell or something like that well it’s so heavy the head feels really light and I don’t like that as much so I usually it’s a standard sized grip uh some companies make like a jumbo Max which is a larger grip that’s lighter

Weight to try to still get you to feel the head but to me I just cannot feel it as well uh in the past I’ve used two wraps of tape again this is like not that much difference but it makes a little bit of firmer grip and a little

Bit larger but I’ve just kind of gone back to what I’ve always played I’ve always loved the id8 it’s probably the best grip on the market and I just use one wrap of tape on there and I feel like that’s the best way it gives me the

Best feel of the club head I would go even smaller grip like even a a thinner size like maybe a ladies grip or something like that but then it gets it just almost gets so small for your hands it’s a little harder to hold on to so that’s what I like that’s what

I’ve always used and that’s probably what I’ll keep on using if they ever sell out of these and stop making them I’m probably going to buy like a few hundred of them just stock them up all right so let’s be honest none of this matters if my swing isn’t where I want

It to be if I don’t have the right fundamentals to hit the ball where I want it to go yes very forgiving drivers help yes beautiful greatl looking irons help they make it better but if you’re swings good you can play with any club on the market and play pretty dag on

Well I’d still personally play with a ping cuz it’s the most forgiving but let’s talk about how to hit this dri straight that’s what most people want to do there’s going to be a video that pops up somewhere on the screen here I’m going to give you my absolute best tip

That you’ve probably never heard before it’s your longest straightest drives today let’s go and get started