WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: The new Ping Scottsdale lineup of putters, which includes nine models, brings an element of game improvement to these multimaterial flatsticks. Inspired by many familiar looks ...

As with many things in R&D, you build on the partial success and failures of things in the past. We had an adjustable-length mechanism in that first version—a fairly simple clamp—that did an awful lot ...

Putting is the great equalizer in match play — and it can save strokes in every format. While driving the ball 300 yards takes speed and skill that most recreational players don’t have, learning how a ...

Few moments in golf are as gratifying as making a shot that lands perfectly on the green, but to truly capitalize on that, you need one of the best putters in your bag. Since the putter is the only ...

The putter remains one of Viktor Hovland’s most potent weapons in the bag. The 3-time PGA Tour winner hit paydirt for the second straight year in Mexico with his 36-inch Ping PLD DS 72 prototype ...

Unlike most clubs, putters seem to require more of an emotional component to their evaluations from our Hot List player panel. Yes, there are elements like forgiveness and roll and of course the look ...

For the entirety of Viktor Hovland’s professional PGA TOUR career to date, he’s used one Ping putter: a custom PLD DS-72 mallet. Actually, it used to be called the “Hovi” prototype until Ping launched ...