Tour New Ping i240 irons - 2025 Memorial

[gumpy]

39 minutes ago, goin'low said:

Just like the food industry, people eat with their eyes👀

For your cars, watches, literally anything else you don’t judge aesthetics? Of course you do. 

[gumpy]

1 hour ago, Bunkersarebigcups said:

Interesting. T100 and BPS I also really like feel-wise (not much "better" than i230, but different), but I'd pick i230 > P770 every day of the week

Fair enough, for me the i230s felt dead and harsher vs the p770s. But again, my money went to the i230s. Every fourth round or so my swing decides to explore the entire face of the iron… 

[ashortgame]

I don't love the look but I don't hate it either.

They have an Ei1 look about them which I don't mind, as for me, the Ei was one of the best performing along with the i20's. I've had all except i25's since the i15's.

I'll most likely stay with my 230's as I've finally got them them where I want them with a 1° decrease in loft from Power specs, which gives me a touch more offset and a touch less bounce. I've really loved all the i series except the i10's which were awful.

I certainly will try them.

Not sure about the shape of the toe, it appears a little more pointed than 210's and 230's. That is my biggest concern. I really dont want a smaller footprint.

The look of the back never concerns me, its totally performance based for me, but then again I play for a living.

 

[Puttersaurus Rex]

1 hour ago, goin'low said:

Just like the food industry, people eat with their eyes👀

Do you eat with your golf clubs?  
 

End of the day it is a metal blob on the end of a stick.

[Puttersaurus Rex]

1 hour ago, gumpy said:

No one is saying they suck, people are saying they look tacky. 

 

The blueprints on the other hand a beautiful and perform. Some people want both from a premium set of irons. 

 

That should be understandable, aesthetics are important to some people. Most of WRX it seems. 

GolfWRXers are in the minority when it comes to the golfing public.

[jblough99]

For reference I230 had a steel rear badge.  The carbon badge on the I240 isn’t exactly attractive but it’s there for a reason, as stated earlier, moving 8 grams of mass from high in the head to somewhere lower.  Could Ping have done a better job of hiding the carbon, sure but most manufacturers like to display their tech, not hide it.

[cvalentino]

1 hour ago, jblough99 said:

For reference I230 had a steel rear badge.  The carbon badge on the I240 isn’t exactly attractive but it’s there for a reason, as stated earlier, moving 8 grams of mass from high in the head to somewhere lower.  Could Ping have done a better job of hiding the carbon, sure but most manufacturers like to display their tech, not hide it.

My guess the carbon up to is to help lower the CG. Ping irons have had higher CGs in the past compared to other irons. May help with those thin shots and keep the spin down for those that spun the i230s too much. Seems like there was an abundance of power spec users for that reason. 

[BubbaBallesteros]

2 hours ago, Puttersaurus Rex said:

GolfWRXers are in the minority when it comes to the golfing public.

We are all that matters. It's goes WRXers, pros and then the peasant average golfer.

[Frank Newport]

2 hours ago, Puttersaurus Rex said:

GolfWRXers are in the minority when it comes to the golfing public.

GolfWRX is just a microcosm of the regular golfing community. Everyone I know gets fit for their clubs and cares about what their bag and equipment looks like.  The munis in my area are packed with people with GFORE/ Vessel golf bags and custom club head covers. They don’t all have good taste but they clearly care. To assume the golfing community will base their decision solely on performance and not appearance is an error. I don’t see a lot of people playing Ping at my club to begin with and I don’t anticipate seeing many playing this iron in the future.

[Wardonation]

wow those are so ugly.... Ping loves their badges on backs of irons. It would look so much cleaner and higher end if it did not have that badge. Anyways to me looks like they have less bounce in this years version, maybe the "Hovland" effect?

[FatThinHeelToe]

Swing and a big miss from Ping here IMO.

 

1 year product cycle these and go back to a more classic design. 

[FatThinHeelToe]

6 minutes ago, Wardonation said:

wow those are so ugly.... Ping loves their badges on backs of irons. It would look so much cleaner and higher end if it did not have that badge. Anyways to me looks like they have less bounce in this years version, maybe the "Hovland" effect?

I look at the Ping Blueprint S and then I look at these and I can't believe that they are the same design team

[Lobbing Iron]

If we are being honest, a lot of the aesthetic driven buyers were going to buy Titleist or p770 anyway.   There probably were a group of players that were happy to play i230s, but the i240s appear to have crossed the line.  

[DBD_Scotty]

Browsed the Ping staff bags at Memorial here on WRX, not seeing a single staffer move from i210/i230 to the i240 - anyone see anything different?  Any staffers/others have them in the bag?

[PT1911]

I think if they would have just used the same matte carbon they used in the G430 they would have looked a bit better....

[maowv]

3 hours ago, Puttersaurus Rex said:

GolfWRXers are in the minority when it comes to the golfing public.

 

GolfWRX has the highest concentration of golfers with 175 mph clubhead speed with a wedge of any place on the planet. OEMs make XXX-stiff shafts only for those on this site.

[Puttersaurus Rex]

33 minutes ago, DBD_Scotty said:

Browsed the Ping staff bags at Memorial here on WRX, not seeing a single staffer move from i210/i230 to the i240 - anyone see anything different?  Any staffers/others have them in the bag?

LOL.  It has been less than one week.  Rare for there to be quick adoption of a new club.  Especially mid-season.

[maowv]

43 minutes ago, Wardonation said:

wow those are so ugly.... Ping loves their badges on backs of irons. It would look so much cleaner and higher end if it did not have that badge. Anyways to me looks like they have less bounce in this years version, maybe the "Hovland" effect?

 

For those of you who are old enough, the i240 looks to be that moment for the i-series irons when Fonzi, dressed  in swim trunks, white t-shirt and leather jacket, strapped into those water skis and grabbed the tow rope.

[Frank Newport]

2 minutes ago, maowv said:

 

GolfWRX has the highest concentration of golfers with 175 mph clubhead speed with a wedge of any place on the planet. OEMs make XXX-stiff shafts only for those on this site.

Best ball strikers in the world. If wasn't for their shaky short game...

[602PingMan]

Just now, maowv said:

 

GolfWRX has the highest concentration of golfers with 175 mph clubhead speed with a wedge of any place on the planet. OEMs make XXX-stiff shafts only for those on this site.

This is  funny because it’s true. I love this site and often read it to fuel my owe curiosity. But it really jumps off the page when I see so many folks on this site cruising with 117mph driver club head speed. &nbsp
 

I really like reading about shafts. My driver club head speed any given day is 110, and I feel whole inadequate after spending 30 min reading threads 😂

[SCOTT4099]

[DBD_Scotty]

18 minutes ago, Puttersaurus Rex said:

LOL.  It has been less than one week.  Rare for there to be quick adoption of a new club.  Especially mid-season.

Agreed...but likely the staffers have been testing for months.  Saw in another thread that the Ping tour van is at the US Women's Open, so we might see more info there first, while on the PGA perhaps the Canadian Open next week or the US Open the following.  Doubt any staffers make a change prior to the major, so maybe just post Oakmont.

[JustineThomas]

1 hour ago, DBD_Scotty said:

Browsed the Ping staff bags at Memorial here on WRX, not seeing a single staffer move from i210/i230 to the i240 - anyone see anything different?  Any staffers/others have them in the bag?

most ping staffers are in blueprint S already

[bigeasy]

4 minutes ago, DBD_Scotty said:

Agreed...but likely the staffers have been testing for months.  Saw in another thread that the Ping tour van is at the US Women's Open, so we might see more info there first, while on the PGA perhaps the Canadian Open next week or the US Open the following.  Doubt any staffers make a change prior to the major, so maybe just post Oakmont.

More women have the i230 in the bags, than the BPS. I would bet there will be some i240s in the womens bags this week. 

[Wardonation]

1 hour ago, FatThinHeelToe said:

I look at the Ping Blueprint S and then I look at these and I can't believe that they are the same design team

100%

[maowv]

Per Ping's website, the i230 is sold out with limited availability for replacement of single irons only.

 

Maybe the brilliance here is they found a way to sell out their entire inventory of a 2 year old club in less than 48 hours? Genius!

 

Perhaps next week, they unveil the actual i240?

Edited May 28 by maowv

[sniper]

1 hour ago, DBD_Scotty said:

Browsed the Ping staff bags at Memorial here on WRX, not seeing a single staffer move from i210/i230 to the i240 - anyone see anything different?  Any staffers/others have them in the bag?

Looked like Conners is testing a long iron.  
 

With BPS I don’t see many of the men adding full sets. Probably more in LPGA.  
 

I look at this club (or any club) like NFL QB’s…if it will help the player/coach win they will put them in play in heartbeat regardless of looks. 

Edited May 28 by sniper

[hammergolf]

1 hour ago, bigeasy said:

More women have the i230 in the bags, than the BPS. I would bet there will be some i240s in the womens bags this week. 

I don’t think anyone would put new irons in the bag for a major. But no doubt they will be showing up in bags soon.

[4TheKing614]

A Ray Charles design I see. 

 

I210 looked great. I don't know why they ever deviated from it. 

[BlkNGld]

13 hours ago, Kball1010 said:

I will never understand how the back of an iron can instantly cause the these irons suck parade. Hit them and then tell us they suck.

 

I don't think anyone in the thread has decreed that the irons suck from a performance perspective.   It's the appearance that's being questioned.

 

If they're game changers in their category of course they'll sell well.   But there are plenty of good clubs out there and it usually comes down to tradeoffs among performance aspects.   When those are very close, price and/or aesthetics tend to be the deciding factor.

 

Edited May 28 by BlkNGld