Ping i530 irons combine a thin face, hollow body and classic looks to create a better-player’s distance iron that delivers more ball speed, distance and forgiveness. I got fit for Ping i530 irons at Ping’s headquarters in Phoenix, and the ball speed jump was shocking. Could the i530 irons help your game?
00:00 Warming Up
00:20 i530 vs. Blueprint S: How They’re Made
01:02 First Impressions
01:30 Ball Speed – Wow!
03:01 The Data
03:54 Longer, With Tighter Dispersion
Oh great ball so now we’ve hit the blueprint s we like that but you’re thinking maybe the i530 could be even a better fit for me yes a little bit more forgiving so I want to see what numbers launch condition spin rates that we’re getting
Ball speed to see if this is going to be a better fit for you cool let’s check it out all right from a construction standpoint i530 and blueprint s similar different well the i530 like I said is just a forge face maraging steel Forge face so a little more forgiving more
Perimeter waiting a little bit more offset okay so we’re expecting to see a little bit faster ball speed great maybe some less launch and lower spin rates okay and then that’ll give you a little more distance and just to be clear we’re doing all this with the same shaft which
Is one of really nice things about fittings these days is that you don’t have to go and get different clubs you’re literally just popping the head off so we’re testing one variable at a time and that’s the key is not to change all the different variables have just
One variable so we can compare apples to apples with numbers and then we move from there well I can see that just from from looking at it you can see that there is just a little bit more offset yes but it still has sort of a cleaner
Look to it still has a thinner Top Line yep it’s not like all of a sudden we’ve gone into something really big and bulky I think a lot of people when they think about these types of clubs as we’re transitioning more towards game improvement stuff um that they’re
Expecting to see lots of offset they expect to see a really thick Top Line right and the i530 doesn’t really have that that was great David for your first shot yeah wow tell you what it felt pretty good that was a great B and I know that you don’t look at just
One shot but looking at just one shot right that from a ball speed standpoint beat anything that I’ve tried today by almost five five miles hour fastest ball speed so far oh great ball David that may have been the best feeling shot today that one felt like it was absolutely just
Right ball speed went up again another mile hour wow so that one was 120.4 and when I’ve been trying blueprint s blueprint T just a little while ago I was cruising around 112 115 113 two shots with this 119 120 absolutely and that’s from a construction standpoint what you would
Have expected to see you said going to something like this yes it’s three in a row David yeah I think uh I think we found the right the right neighborhood little off to the right but not bad yeah I mean if that’s going to be my M hit that’s a playable Miss I
Mean I would I’m not looking for something that’s going to go quite high right it certainly felt great but it’s a playable mess right I’ll tell you what that one wasn’t even hit that great either but it’s imp wants to send it straight so blueprint T 114 ball speed
Blueprint s 113 ball speed i530 119 ball speed yeah your Club your uh the club has the swing speed was about the same right did not change at all launching 15 and 23 you’re launching at 21 which is great little high in the spin but again
If we can power spec that I can take off some of that Loft because you’re pretty shallow so I’m not worried about you digging and if you power speec that what does power spec mean so we go to about a degree and a half stronger Lofts so that
Should make for a slightly lower launch angle probably more distance absolutely that’d be great yeah cool lower launch and lower spin okay CU you’re right around 8,000 y we need to bring that down a little bit MH and then if you look at here you’re about 160 carry so
Almost a full Club but not even looking at just the distance this is where I’m really concerned that dispersion pattern that dispersion is night and day compared to the other two clubs that we hit and again from a construction standpoint from a size standpoint that shouldn’t be that surprising for a
Player like me who’s playing off 11 or 12 that when you get into blueprint s blueprint T certainly there’s just not a lot of inherent forgiveness built into that it’s built for somebody who’s looking for something other than forgiveness when you get into a better player distance iron that’s bordering on
A game improvement on like i530 the traits that are designed into this to give you a little bit of that forgiveness to give you some of that ball speed retention that’s that’s what you would have expected to see from this absolutely I knew I was going to get
Those numbers out of there gotcha great
