blazman11

It’s usually driver here in Florida since most holes I play have water left OB/houses/roads right. If driver is working then literally everything else will fall apart 🙂

I haven’t liked a Ping driver since the G400 series. Since that series I’ve owned at least the Max or LST in every subsequent series and could never get them to work on course. The G440 Max changed that. I’m playing it as a 12 degree three wood with the Chrome 2.0 shaft - 43” playing length. Off the deck it doesn’t work quite as well as my Epic Max but I’m hitting the G440 better off the tee. When I have measured my best was 268 and average 240+. Great for when the driver goes cold or for tight par 4’s. I do have a Chrome 2.0 in driver length but I just haven’t spent enough time testing that. It’s more having a comfort level with my Ai Smoke 3x diamond. Anyways I love the Chrome shaft. I tried the Black and that just didn’t do it for me. I have a few different Graphite Designs along with a Red + Blue Velocore but I like the Chrome shaft overall all those in this head.

I have no idea what your game is but I will say yes, you definitely can. Here was my setup and I will explain why: Original: i530 in 4 + 5 irons, BP T in 5-GW. They don’t make a GW so I bought a second PW and had it bent to 50. I just changed the paint fill to red. A 50* is my 130 but I cannot get a specialty wedge to 130. I hit them too high and spinny. This setup worked awesome and I did the same thing with i59 a few years earlier. With the stronger lofted i530, they were my 3 and 4 irons. I hated i530. Really disappointed in what they turned i5xx into as I see no difference between those and G series. They were fine in a sim but on course it was bad. Got rid of i530 and went BP S in 4 iron and BP T in 5. Really wish I would’ve just bought the BP T in a 4 too as the BP T 5 iron was the best club in my bag. It was 195 carry on a rope all day long and I don’t know why I hit it that well. Anyways the turf interaction and feel of the T’s is to die for. I know this sounds ridiculous to say but they are some of the easiest to hit clubs that exist IF you are not intimidated by the smaller footprint (we all know how our heads will mess everything up). Even thin toe didn’t kill the hands and the ball still largely got to where I wanted it to go. I just could not control the big hooks. I was down for a year with wrist surgery and developed too many bad habits coming back. I kinda regret getting rid of them. I just didn’t want to work the ball on every shot. But that’s what they are designed to do and I knew that. Hitting the middle was not at all the issue. And I’m a firm believer if you have good hand/eye coordination and a good sense of feels, that smaller club heads are better (within reason). You are taking the same weighted head as a G4xx but smooshing the crap out of it and condensing all that weight to middle of the club. The sensation of swinging these compared to a GI is night and day. You know where that club is at every checkpoint. With that said I really wish I could play GI irons. But for me they give me nothing but high, weak push fades/slices all day long. No idea why but that’s always been the case. Sometimes I stumble on a unicorn like the new IDI which I never would’ve bought if I saw in person first as it’s massive. But it somehow works for me.

Exactly! It’s one of the reasons why golf is so interesting to me. I find it fun to read reviews, hear other’s opinions and then go test for myself.

I think the i240 is definitely worth a try. I only took the demo out for 9 holes with the stock Modus 115s. 7 iron is 87-90mph depending if my old hips want to rotate. What’s really fascinating in reading this entire thread is how people’s description of feel, looks and performance can be so wildly different - mine included. So here’s my take and why you should see and hit the i240 for yourself as I have a different take than most: 1) I hated the i230. it went nowhere. Felt like crap to me and what I would call a manufactured softness. Good strikes didn’t feel rewarding. 2) I also did not like Blueprint S. I thought it felt awful and way too soft. I liken it to hitting a very low compression golf ball. 3) I will go to my grave in saying the Blueprint T is the most forgiving iron Ping has made recently. Based on my description of forgiving which is ball speed retention. Just an awesome set of irons. And the feel. OMG the feel!!! Unfortunately they were above my pay grade as they are designed to work the ball which also means they can work it too much. If they could take this exact same club and put a ton of tungsten in the toe I would buy 4 sets. 4) i500 and i200 were my all time favorite Ping i-series sets. I unfortunately never hit the i210. I, like most people, despise the i240 badging. But when I picked up the demo head, I put it down at address and said out loud that this might be the best looking i-series iron at address Ping ever made. Just visually it looked smaller than what I remember the i230 to look like and the sole was surprisingly smaller than what I remember. I do have to look at how Ping bevels their sole towards the cavity. I’m not sure why they do that but to me it effectively makes the sole smaller. Which I like. I want smallest soles possible - especially in long irons. You can give me a frying pan for a wedge, I don’t care but I want small soled long and scoring irons. yes I’m weird. Some people see the offset and comment on how much there is. I have not looked at specs to compare vs prior versions but to me at address, I had no complaints. I thought they did a good job making the top line look smaller. On course the ball got up in the air quickly. It was something I did not expect. The sound/feel I would describe as significantly more crisp than I remember the i230. Definitely more rewarding to me on good strikes vs i230. However, the sound on i240 was also higher pitched so I wasn’t completely sold. I’ll explain it like this. On center contact I feel the crispyness. Which I like! I see the ball flight, which I loved. Then I heard the higher pitched sound and think that shouldn’t be. But it didn’t totally bother me. Don’t remember which ball I used. It wasn’t a ProV / ProVx. Some other urethane X series ball so I really want to see what these sound like with a ProV. What really surprised me and I don’t think I ever said this about a Ping i-series iron, is the turf interaction was wonderful. Distance was right where I expected it to be. Mid 170 on good strikes. I never hit Modus 115 prior to this and it’s a decent shaft, just not for me. I like bend profiles like SF 95 and AMT Black. Getting used to the Modus shaft I was coming up way short with i240 but once I learned the feels it wasn’t hard to get distance dialed in. It was a long write but now I want a set. I have a new set of Cally Ti chromes waiting for me but I might swap those for the i240. For me they fixed the criticisms I had with i230. But this is why you have to see and hit for yourself as my opinions are so much different than most peoples.

I have a set of Ti chromes waiting for me at the local shop. I’m not sure yet if I want to keep them or swap for i240. I owned the Ti black which were wonderful irons except: 1) I broke the face weld on the 4 iron a few weeks in. 2) I snapped the 5 iron right above the hosel a week after breaking the 4 iron. 3) The finish was horrific. Scoring irons looked 10 years old after owning for 2 months. 4) They went too far. No fliers, distant was consistent. Turf interaction was ok. Despite all that the irons performed. Extremely forgiving with a nice high launch. I’m a Ping fanboy but not completely sold on what they are doing with the i240. The Ti chrome looks absolutely fantastic in person. I’m very close to making a decision so if you can wait a few days I’ll let you know. If I stick with the TI chrome I’m going to have the shop rebuild them and bend the lofts to a 50* GW down to a 22* 4 iron (obv then matching in between). Photo of the Ti black 8 iron after 2 months.