The Rocket Mortgage Classic is a new event on the PGA Tour schedule, so it’s fitting that Ping is introducing a new club to its tour staff this week, the Glide 3.0 wedge.
The Srixon Q-Star’s two-piece construction isn’t what you would think of for a tour-level ball, but a deeper look into the design reveals some of the same guiding technologies found in the company’s tour-played Z-Star and Z-Star XV balls.
The irons, which appear to possibly be replacements for the company’s AP1 and AP3 (The T100’s look closer to the AP2 model) are being shown to tour staff as part of the company’s tour seeding and validating process.
To boost distance, the company again uses its hallmark “power holes” in the sole, with two rows of the urethane-filled openings in the sole up through the 8-iron.
As his final tune-up before next week’s US Open at Pebble Beach, McIlroy had to be heartened by the fact each aspect of his game was clicking in Canada.
