The brand new PING G Le3 line of golf golf equipment is many issues. However the merchandise on the prime of the checklist can be the best.
It’s good enterprise.
The PING G Le3 lineup, you see, is a full line of custom-fit and custom-built golf equipment particularly for girls. In case you hadn’t seen, extra ladies are enjoying golf than ever earlier than.
The Nationwide Golf Basis’s most up-to-date statistics present the variety of ladies golfers within the U.S. alone has grown 15 % since 2019. General, ladies now make up 25 % of all on-course golfers.
For an organization resembling PING with a protracted historical past of supporting ladies’s golf (you’ve heard, maybe, of the Solheim Cup?), it’s a sensible transfer to doubtlessly seize a big share of a rising demographic.
This isn’t a watered-down, “shrink it and pink it” boxed set, both. It’s a full line of premium gear with all of PING’s present expertise.
PING G Le3 For Ladies
PING Government Vice-President Stacey Pauweis is the granddaughter of Karsten and Louise Solheim.
“The brand new PING G Le3 household presents a full set of performance-engineered custom-made golf equipment that ship added distance, unmatched forgiveness, a confidence-inspiring look and a lovely sound,” she stated in a ready assertion.
The set features a driver, fairways woods, hybrids, irons and putters. These aren’t your commonplace PING merchandise with light-weight shafts. PING says the road has been engineered from grip to tip for 80 mph and decrease swing speeds.
What’s extra, your entire lineup is obtainable for custom-fitting and PING-authorized becoming facilities.
G Le3 Driver and Fairways
PING is utilizing its greatest expertise within the new G Le3 collection. The high-MOI driver options light-weight shafts and grips to assist get the ball up and fly usually straight. The titanium head contains a solid face and a hard and fast, high-density weight within the rear for a low, again and barely heel-ward middle of gravity. That’s a recipe for quicker ball speeds and better launch.
Oddly, the G Le3 driver additionally options crown turbulators and a Vortex cavity. Presumably, that’s for an aerodynamic benefit however even PING has informed us that aerodynamic benefits begin to peter out as swing speeds go down. However, heck, right here we’re.
The driving force is adjustable with PING’s light-weight Trajectory Tuning Hosel. The 11.5-degree driver will be loft-adjusted up or down 1.5 levels in addition to lie-adjusted as much as three levels flat.
The PING G Le3 fairways are available in 4 flavors: 3-, 5-, 7- and 9-woods and are additionally adjustable. These heads are chrome steel with a maraging metal face wrap to optimize face flex whereas lowering spin.
Irons, Wedges and Hybrids
Whereas not even remotely a field set, the PING G Le3 line is designed to be a set. Particularly, the irons and wedges are supposed to be blended. The irons are basic game-improvement with a low CG and high-density heel and toe weights for higher perimeter weighting. Iron lofts are par for the game-improvement course starting from a 25-degree 6-iron to a 41-degree 9-iron. Additionally they embody PING’s multi-material PurFlex cavity badge, which permits for optimum face deflection whereas on the similar time dampening sound and vibration.
Noticeably missing from the usual iron set is a pitching wedge. PING is making the G Le3 pitching wedge to be extra like a wedge and fewer like a 10-iron. The pitching, utility and sand wedges characteristic absolutely machined grooves whereas the sand wedge has a little bit of an Eye 2 factor happening with a wider sole and a slimmer hosel.
With any combo set that includes hybrids, the transition to hybrids is all the time a bit hinky and might depart a big hole between the longest iron and shortest hybrid. To easy that transition, PING is making every hybrid 1 / 4 of an inch longer than the one earlier than it. That, says PING, ought to present extra constant gapping.
PING G Le3 Putters
PING rounds out the G Le3 lineup with 4 basic designs gussied up with a white, two-piece elastomer insert known as Pebax. It contains a delicate entrance piece with PLD-inspired shallow grooves and a firmer again piece to make sure really feel, forgiveness and distance management.
The 4 new putter fashions embody the G Le3 model of the Anser, together with fellow classics, Fetch and Ketsch. The fourth putter is a brand new design known as the Louise, named after Karsten’s spouse, enterprise accomplice and confidante.
The Louise is a mid-mallet, much like the Tour-proven PING DS72, however with a mid-slant hosel. The Ketsch G is machined from 6061 aluminum and has a stainless-steel sole plate to maximise MOI and optimize CG.
All 4 characteristic a brand new G Le3 particular pistol-style grip.
PING G Le3: Last Ideas, Worth and Availability
Light-weight is formally a factor now for mainstream golf OEMs. It was once the only area for the likes of XXIO, which designs light-weight golf equipment for all lower-swing velocity gamers, no matter gender. Beforehand, ladies’s choices have been most frequently the identical head with extra female graphics and coloring, perhaps some lighter adjustable weights, and a light-weight shaft.
A cynic might say that’s precisely what PING is doing however that’s usually not PING’s approach. The corporate goes to nice lengths to ensure clients know G Le3 is an natural design solely for girls with a heavy emphasis on custom-fitting, identical to the normal males’s product traces.
And that “identical to the boys” equality contains pricing. The G Le3 driver, for instance, carries an MSRP of $540. The fairway woods are $325 every and the hybrids (22-, 26-, 30- and 34-degree fashions) are $245. The irons (6-iron through 9-iron) and wedges are $185 every.
And the PING G Le3 Anser, Louise and Fetch are $250, whereas the Ketsch G is $325.
The PING G Le3 line of ladies’s golf equipment is obtainable beginning at this time. For extra info, go to PING’s web site.
