Unlike its direct competition from the likes of TaylorMade, Callaway and Cobra, the team at Ping HQ works on two-year release cycles for its products. The last time we saw a whole new family of drivers introduced was G430 back at the start of 2023. However, last January, it broke its normal cadence with an ‘off-cycle’ release that turned out to be one of the most successful drivers of the year and one the most critically acclimated products in recent memory. Such was its success, the Ping G430 Max 10k driver remains an in-line product for 2025, alongside its new siblings from the G440 family.
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In 2024, G430 was the number one driver in the bags of PGA Tour players for 36 out of the 40 weeks. This equates to an incredibly high bar set and the brand has spent the last 24 months working on how to rise above that bar again with an expectant crowd of Tour players and amateur golfers waiting to see what its engineers in Arizona could come up with next.
What is the technology?
The tech story on G440 is an interesting one and is centred around CG location, or more specifically lowering the CG location. Ping has achieved the lowest center of gravity in a Ping driver to date, which it says will lead to higher ball speeds and higher launch across the entire face.
Ping has done this through multiple weight-saving advancements higher up on the head. A combination of a shallower face, lightweight carbon crown, and a technology Ping is referring to as Free Hosel design, helps save significant weight in an attempt to align the CG closer to what Ping calls the force line for faster ball speed, optimal spin, and higher launch. Essentially, lowering the CG will give you more chance to hit those high-launching, low-spinning flights that we know offer maximum distance. Ping also professes that the shallower face height has resulted in a hotter, thinner face for more flexing. Its engineers have reported that the high heel area of the face in particular has benefitting from the redesign, reporting faster ball speeds from this area of the face that golfers commonly use.
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What are the models, and who are they aimed at?
DRIVERS
There are three drivers in total in the G440 family. Likely to be the most commonly fitted head in the range is the G440 Max. It is the most forgiving model in the…
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