On the flip side, given that most amateurs who will buy this club are likely to be in the 85-100 mph range, then the gains may not be as visible on the course as you would expect. The faster you swing it, the greater the gain as Bubba Watson added an extra 2 mph to his 118.5 mph swing speed for an extra 10 yards, as the Bubba Longer video below shows. Now 1 mph may not get you leaping up and down in joy, but each 1 mph usually equates to around 4 yards carry, or about half a club less into the green for your second shot.

With the G25 driver the average club head speed was 105.5 mph, but with the G30 driver the average rose to 106.5 mph. With the help of Olly, a PGA Professional from The Leading Edge, we hit each club to get an average speed using Trackman and the results were very interesting. I took the G30 down to our driving range, that felt like a wind tunnel at times, to put it through its paces against the previous Ping G25 driver. This is all well and good in a wind tunnel, but will it work on a golf course? However like dimples on the golf ball, the Turbulators claim to smooth the airflow rather than disrupt it as the Wind Tunnel Testing video below this review shows. These are aerodynamic fins, whose name has to be spoken in movie trailer voiceover style, that smooth the airflow over the club during the swing to increase the club head speed.įor years you would have believed that the smoother the surface and curves of a clubhead, the faster it would go. The standout feature of the G30 driver visually and technically is the Turbulators that sit on the crown of the club. The Ping G30 driver is the 7th incarnation of the range that started with the market leading Ping G2 driver six years ago. Once again Ping has had to wrestle with the issue of improving one of the best selling drivers in the market.

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