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Well done! Thanks for the honest review. Is anyone really enamored with these clubs? They definitely look great, but reviews seem pretty mixed, at best.

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Thanks. I want to love these, but I just can’t get them too work. Maybe I was just so excited for these and way too much hype.


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4 minutes ago, GB13 said:

Do you have any ideas why the 6 irons went farther than the 4 or 5? Inconsistent striking or something else? 

great question.

I never focued on the 5 or 4 as the 6 was working great. and that is one question i need to answer next summer. Are they as easy to hit as the 6? and what will that distance be like.

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3 minutes ago, GC70 said:


Thanks. I want to love these, but I just can’t get them too work. Maybe I was just so excited for these and way too much hype.


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For me , i was hyped about the distance, but once it sank in about the problems i was encountering because of it or  the second guessing i was doing,  i said... I'd rather be short and consistent . and i found that my well struck short irons were the same distance.

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For me , i was hyped about the distance, but once it sank in about the problems i was encountering because of it or  the second guessing i was doing,  i said... I'd rather be short and consistent . and i found that my well struck short irons were the same distance.

Yes the short irons were just as long as a all my other clubs or shorter. Mainly shorter!


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4 minutes ago, GolfSpy STUDque said:

I'm a bit away from having a stage 2 ready but I wanted to drop in for a little update now that I've finished my irons-only experiment and am back to using the full bag. It feels weird being the only one seeing benefits from these clubs. I'm happy they work for me, but am surprised at other findings.

For my little experiment I played to some basic ground rules:

1) Can't hit the same club twice in a row
2) Can't tee off with the same club 2 holes in a row (skipping par 3s)
3) If Arccos usage for some dropped below the rest, play to yardages that'll dictate those clubs into greens

...then I gradually moved up the bag in phase



-Simplified course management is fun! I've tied my best Arccos score twice. Maybe I should lose the woods and wedges permanently?



That's all I've got for now. As I stated in my last mini-update, these irons can be a great fit for a very specific player but may not have widespread appeal. So far, they fit me and I'm very pleased with their performance.

 

interesting approach. So what is the reasoning behind rules #1 and #2? or just your own rules you came up with?

And  i agree with the simplified course management. it was fun shooting from the fairway when i also put away my woods. 

And the guy i was playing with (an older gentleman) looked at my 6i and said "this is an iron?"

 

i am glad tto see hat you are reaping the benefits of these irons.

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interesting approach. So what is the reasoning behind rules #1 and #2? or just your own rules you came up with?



Well yes, they're all rules I came up with. They're meant to inspire organic variety. It stems from the fact that I didn't want to just hammer 4 irons off every tee box because, even being shorter off the tee, I didn't get many opportunities to hit 4,5, or 6 into greens.


I sort of tried a similar approach in the short game but didn't always stick to it since I didn't make it an "official" rule. This worked to my detriment so I probably should make a rule #4.

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I know when I hit the G700's for the first time at a local pro shop, there was a dramatic difference in sound between off the mats and off the grass.  Did any of you experience the same thing with the i500's?

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Love the stage twos and honesty so far 😁😎.

Har, what made the decision for you on where to do the split in the set?

 

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8 hours ago, goaliewales14 said:

I know when I hit the G700's for the first time at a local pro shop, there was a dramatic difference in sound between off the mats and off the grass.  Did any of you experience the same thing with the i500's?

I didn't notice much difference between mats and grass. In both scenarios, my CF16 still felt/sounded better.
I really wish I had a professional mic to capture the sound difference.

But the inconsistent distances you guys were seeing, that's baffling... I would have to guess my constant toe hits are not giving me any consistent yardages either, so 2 wrongs make a right? :lol:

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2 minutes ago, Kanoito said:

I didn't notice much difference between mats and grass. In both scenarios, my CF16 still felt/sounded better.
I really wish I had a professional mic to capture the sound difference.

But the inconsistent distances you guys were seeing, that's baffling... I would have to guess my constant toe hits are not giving me any consistent yardages either, so 2 wrongs make a right? :lol:

Mate you have me so confused as to how you're shooting such good scores with that lovely toe strike 🤔🤣😎

 

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@GC70 Harsh but fair George, great review. Seems like Ping "may" have gotten it wrong with these clubs for the majority.

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[mention=76025]GC70[/mention] Harsh but fair George, great review. Seems like Ping "may" have gotten it wrong with these clubs for the majority.

I wasn’t trying to be harsh. I just wanted these to work for me. I’m definitely going to try again in the spring.
I hope everyone takes it with a grain of salt. Ping makes great clubs! These just don’t work for me. Different strokes for different folks.


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2 hours ago, Nunfa0 said:

Mate you have me so confused as to how you're shooting such good scores with that lovely toe strike 🤔🤣😎

Keep it in the fairway off the tee, putting and wedge game can make up for those shitty iron shots. 

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On 10/21/2018 at 11:03 AM, Mr_Theoo said:

I have another lesson today. Hopefully get some things worked out because the last 2 range sessions have been brutal. More me than the clubs I think though. On the shots I’ve hit pure I’m seeing at least as much height as I’m used to. Hard to tell with range balls in the dark though

Sunday my lesson was more of a playing lesson on the sim. While not real golf it was my first real test with shot making with these. I’d say a lot of the uneasiness I had with bad range sessions went away with a few tweaks to set up. We only did 9 holes but I ended up paring the last 5 of them hitting great iron shots into the greens. 

Hope to get out Saturday for some real and most likely last golf of the year but the weather may not be in my favor. I think a trip to top golf might be in order as well to test some shot making ability of these clubs

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Bumping GC70's Stage 2 per his request.

 

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Well I got rained out for real golf today so I went to the new Topgolf to at least have some real targets to hit. I’m still getting used to the clubs throughout the whole bag but I might have fallen in love with the 9i today. It just goes so high and far

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On 10/25/2018 at 3:28 AM, Nunfa0 said:

Love the stage twos and honesty so far 😁😎.

Har, what made the decision for you on where to do the split in the set?

Thanks Nun.

Sorry for the late reply.  

the  decision was based upon the yardgage gaps. if i kept my 7i, i would have had about a 40 yard gap to the ping 6i. 

and i need to evaluate my yardages next year and i will do more testing.

This will still be a work in progress. 

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Thanks Nun.
Sorry for the late reply.  
the  decision was based upon the yardgage gaps. if i kept my 7i, i would have had about a 40 yard gap to the ping 6i. 
and i need to evaluate my yardages next year and i will do more testing.
This will still be a work in progress. 
Do you think you would consider sending them to ping and getting them into retro lofts?

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Do you think you would consider sending them to ping and getting them into retro lofts?

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Great question. I have to see.
One thing about delofting on the long irons is if you lower the trajectory, you need to make it up with ball speed. That is my understanding.

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  :titelist-small: 60  / 56  :mizuno-small: 52

  :titelist-small: 910 D2 driver - 9.5 degree -fitted13   F 3 wood 13.5 deg   :nike-small: CPR 3 hybrid

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Great question. I have to see.
One thing about delofting on the long irons is if you lower the trajectory, you need to make it up with ball speed. That is my understanding.

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Txg had a good video with it, although I don't really remember the result.
Would be interesting to see if that would help with some gapping issues regardless of loosing a bit of ball speed or not.
Hopefully it all gets sorted away... Love your split set though!

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Seems to be a theme just about everywhere (here, YouTube reviewers, etc): the gapping between clubs in this set is off. I'm really surprised a company like Ping would release a set like this.
Also one of the tough parts with most fitting areas where you have limited irons (normally 7 iron only) and typically always in standard spec.
In a perfect world you could try every iron and order the spec retro, standard or power to match it all up with your swing.
That being side I found the gapping pretty much spot on with the i210. Very consistent to previous sets I've had and yardages went what I expected. Wonder why so find this to be different with the i500

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Seems to be a theme just about everywhere (here, YouTube reviewers, etc): the gapping between clubs in this set is off. I'm really surprised a company like Ping would release a set like this.

I think the hotter and faster their making these iron these days we are going to see this a lot.


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2 hours ago, jlukes said:

Seems to be a theme just about everywhere (here, YouTube reviewers, etc): the gapping between clubs in this set is off. I'm really surprised a company like Ping would release a set like this.

I had a session on the lm tonight that left me very confused with the numbers

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On 10/28/2018 at 7:34 PM, jlukes said:

Seems to be a theme just about everywhere (here, YouTube reviewers, etc): the gapping between clubs in this set is off. I'm really surprised a company like Ping would release a set like this.

I bought a set of i500s about a month ago, and prior to buying I had a chance to watch all the YouTube videos, etc. and tested and got fit but with just a 7 iron.  I was hesitant because of some of the negative commentary about gapping between clubs and was really concerned about the gap between the PW and my Mizuno T7 gap wedge because from the videos, the biggest complaint seemed to be the gap between the PW and then the next lowest wedge in the set.  I loved the look of the i500s and what I was seeing with the 7 iron so much that I went ahead with the purchase despite my concerns.  

Happily, I have not seen any of the gapping issues mentioned by others, so it does not seem to be a universal problem.  My best advice is to make sure you get fit for these.  Even though my fitting was just with a 7 iron, we really took our time at the fitting and one thing that stands out in my mind is that I tried four different lie angles to make sure the lie was right.  I think this was really important because two of the lie angles were too upright and on each of those heads, the ball tended to go left and tended to go 5 yards farther.  The other two lie angles were very close but the three degree flat brown dot was just a hair too flat.  I ended up with the orange dot which is two flat, which is not too surprising but the stock lie angles in the Pings are different than the stock lie angles in my old set.  It really made a big difference though.  The orange dot is much more accurate, much straighter and not as long as the 1 flat or std lie for me.  With the right fit, I am just not seeing the gapping issues.  My gap wedge goes about 115 - 120 and my PW is at 125-135, 9 iron is 140-145, 8 is about 155-160, 7 is 165-170, 6 is 175-185, so the biggest gap is between my PW and gap wedge, but it's manageable.  If anything, there is a problem where sometimes my 6 iron does not seem to go much farther than my 7 iron and i only hit it  170ish, but I think that is a quality of strike issue more so than a club issue.  I am much better with my shorter irons (probably most people are), and  I tend to dig with my irons and take a big divot.  Occasionally, I am prone to semi fat shots with longer irons because of this.  I don't know how to describe it, they are not fat fat but they have a different feeling and I am sure I am just a fraction behind the ball.  In my old set, my 5 and 6 went almost the same distance and I am sure that is an issue with not consistently getting the ball cleanly with those irons and hitting just a smidge fat.  For that reason, I didn't get a 5 iron in the i500 set and I am currently experimenting with a GAPR mid5, cut one inch shorter than standard.  It goes about 190-195 on average but I can get it out there to 200 at times.  It has a wide sole which helps me not dig too much and provides better consistency so far.

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One other thought I have, not on gaps per se but on distance inconsistencies, is that temperature is a huge factor that can account for the clubs playing one distance one day and a different distance the next.  I live in Maryland and temperatures have bounced around quite a bit over the past month. My i500s arrived on an 85 degree day, and I immediately tried them out at the driving range where I picked them up.  The 9 iron was easily reaching the island green at my local driving range.  For reference, there is a red flag in the middle of the green measured at 147 yards from the hitting bays I normally use.  My shots were mostly just a hair short of the flag so about 140-145ish.  A few days later I went to the range and the temperature was in the upper 50s and I was splashing balls in the water 15-20 yards short of the flag consistently.  A few days later, the temperatures went back up and I was back to the 140-145 distance range I was seeing when my clubs first arrived.  This is a weird time of year temperature wise for a lot of folks with some nice days and some cooler days.  It certainly could explain the differences people are seeing day to day and also indoor vs. outdoor.

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Went out for a round today with the full bag and turned in a decent score since I putted like an animal. That's not what this post is about though. I was motoring along and caught up to the group in front of me (who I hadn't seen all round until 15). Since I didn't want to mess around trying to pass them, I took the opportunity to capture some video for the review. When I got the opportunity to play with @Kanoito  we skipped a good 10-15 balls near the end of the round. Didn't get that on video so I'm coming back to make up for it:

 

 

 

So far, the i500s are doing well on the escapability aspect. Although these were for video, I used similar shots to get out of trouble 3 times throughout the round. Even reached the green on one of them which resulted in a birdie. 

 

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On 10/30/2018 at 4:19 PM, jtnunley1983 said:

One other thought I have, not on gaps per se but on distance inconsistencies, is that temperature is a huge factor that can account for the clubs playing one distance one day and a different distance the next.  I live in Maryland and temperatures have bounced around quite a bit over the past month. My i500s arrived on an 85 degree day, and I immediately tried them out at the driving range where I picked them up.  The 9 iron was easily reaching the island green at my local driving range.  For reference, there is a red flag in the middle of the green measured at 147 yards from the hitting bays I normally use.  My shots were mostly just a hair short of the flag so about 140-145ish.  A few days later I went to the range and the temperature was in the upper 50s and I was splashing balls in the water 15-20 yards short of the flag consistently.  A few days later, the temperatures went back up and I was back to the 140-145 distance range I was seeing when my clubs first arrived.  This is a weird time of year temperature wise for a lot of folks with some nice days and some cooler days.  It certainly could explain the differences people are seeing day to day and also indoor vs. outdoor.

interesting. I think the temperature variance will affect golf ball performance more than the club as the elastomers are more temperature variant than metal.

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