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We're at the PGA Show 2013, and it's great to see Marty Jertsen here again from Ping.
He's involved in product design, we come back to you every year Marty and it's great to
see you. Thanks very much. You're looking well. I'm doing good. New shades? Yeah you
know… nice ones. The Ping G25 driver, how can you keep improving on what's probably
some of the bestselling drivers out there. Well that's the thing. We always get asked
if we leave anything on the table when we come out with a new product and I can guarantee
everyone out there that we're not leaving anything on the table. We've had our biggest
improvement in both CG position, both down and back away from the face, and inertia of
any G series driver, from G20 to G25. Now to the layman, CG position and inertia, what
do they mean? Good question. CG position means… that controls the spin and how high you launch
the ball. So it's an extremely high launch driver but still has low spin characteristics
to it. Inertia, what does that mean? The club is more forgiving. When you miss hit it it's
going to perform more like a centre hit and we've had drastic improvement in both those
things. Ok and just an overview on loft adjustability on this. What we've done is we've kept our
adjustable loft technology tuning system very simple. You don't need a user’s manual.
We still have 4 static lofts, 8.5, 9.5, 10.5 and 12, and then to fine tune your trajectory
after you get your driver you can either add a half a degree, put it on the plus. Or subtract
a half a degree, put it on the minus. Very simple. Not confusing, won't mess with your
confidence. And the face of this driver, the G25, is very big looking at address. Yes,
it's really big. SO when you set it down we've elongated it from front to back substantially.
That's helped drive up some of our inertia. It's still within the 460ccs of conformance
but we've better utalise that volume. And is it heavier to lighter than the other incarnations.
Well without high balance point technology we're able to make the head, compared to the
average shaft out there, with the shaft we're using in the G25 adds about 7 grams additional
mass. So we've made the head one gram heavier than the G20. That gives more momentum at
impact. It's not just the energy that we care about which is 1/2 MV2, we care about mass
times velocity, that momentum. This is a high momentum driver. So to take all the mathematics
down, how far can people expect to hit this a little bit further than the previous model.
Absolutely, so you can play not as much loft so you get more ball velocity on not playing
as much loft. And in our test we've seen that over the G20, improvements of 5-10 yards.
And a lot of that improvement from better launch conditions, more ball velocity but
a lot of it's because nobody hits their driver perfect every time, even Bubba Watson and
Hunter Mahan, who have just switched to it, have picked up yardage with the G25. Fantastic,
thanks Marty. That's the G25 from Ping new for 2013.