PING G WEIGHT SAVING TECHNOLOGY IS BUILT FOR SPEED
The new PING G driver is loaded with high-tech features built to improve your game. Just look at some of these features. Turbulator Technology helps reduce drag by 37% to increase carry distance by 3-4 yards. Dragonfly Technology saves 8 grams of weight with ultra-thin sections of the crown to optimize CG and MOI. Vortec Technology helps stabilize airflow through the swing to minimize wake turbulence for a faster, more stable club head. That’s a loaded driver! Just what does all this mean and how does it help your game? We talked to PING’s Marty Jertson to get the details of how just how PING G works to take you farther, faster.
TGW: Just how much lighter and faster is the new G than last year’s G30?
Marty Jertson: We’ve improved the drag by 37% near the impact zone, and 11% on the total downswing, with the new G driver as compared to G30. The result is 1-2 mph of ball speed gains, while simultaneously improving the MOI and stability. A large part of our industry leading stability is our proprietary light and counterbalance shaft technology we use in the Alta shaft – which results in more momentum at impact.
TGW: The G30 introduced Turbulator Technology while the G has added Dragonfly Technology. How does this help performance?
MJ: The vision for driver performance is long and straight, how we deliver this is the fun part. Technologies such as Turbulators and Dragonfly work synergistically to yield the challenging combination of an industry leading stability (high Moment of Inertia) and fast clubhead speed (through aerodynamic efficiency). Dragonfly technology, which is as thin as just 3 dollar bills packed together, provides crucial weight savings from the crown, so we can drive the CG even lower and deeper – which results in incredible stability.
TGW: Where else have you saved weight in the new G driver?
MJ: We are using a slightly lighter adjustable hosel sleeve, and efficiencies in the variable wall thickness throughout the entire clubhead, along with the T9S precision machined variable thickness face manifest highly efficient utilization of the titanium.
TGW: How does the G driver’s Vortec Technology add speed?
MJ: Much like the base flaps (or wing structure) on the back of 18 wheelers that are now popular, the Vortec technology sheds chaotic vortices (or swirling air flow) that can occur at the back of the driver. The amazing benefit of reducing these oscillations is that we can both clubhead speed, but also improved clubhead stability as the driver accelerates from the top of the swing through impact – resulting in more speed and stability simultaneously (to help with our vision of long and straight).
TGW: Are there any other differences between the G and G30 that our readers should be aware of?
MJ: The G driver looks even more amazing in the address position. We’ve created an appearance at address that looks faster, sits extremely square, and has a more traditional pear-inspired shape. And, players can expect a little deeper acoustic signature with the G driver which we carefully engineered.
