Ping promises to combine significant distance gains with improved feel and sound in its newly engineered series of i525 players-distance-style irons.
“As golfers know who’ve played this type of iron design, they often sacrificed some of the feel for more distance,” said John K. Solheim, Ping president. “That’s not the case in the i525 as we’re able to provide golfers a solid-feeling iron with the increased ball speed they need to hit longer, higher shots that hit and hold the green.”
The i525’s variable-thickness maraging steel – a high-strength steel with increased toughness – allows for a thinner face structure with an internal sole undercut in the stainless-steel body to increase flexing for more ball speed and shots that launch faster and higher with distance control.
The key to its sustained feel and sound is a polymer that is precisely injected onto the inside of the face without interfering with face deflection, which is the source of its increased ball speed.
Tungsten toe and shaft tip weights combine with a tiered, dynamic face structure and cavity to expand the perimeter weighting while preserving ball speed through greater face deflection for added distance and improved accuracy. Higher vertical and horizontal MOI provides tighter dispersion and increased forgiveness.
As with last year’s i59 iron, the i525’s precision-machined face has “MicroMax” grooves for tighter spacing that results in an average of four extra grooves on each club to reduce fliers in the short irons and preserve spin in the long irons.