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 ...

Who they’re for: Golfers who demand the ultimate in feel and precision and want a putter that looks like it came right off the PGA Tour. The Skinny: The four PLD putters are straight-from-the-tour ...

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 ...

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 ...

When he is faced with a delicate chip from the collar or an awkward shot from a few inches off the green, Tony Finau has been known to turn his putter, a Ping PLD Anser 2D, counter-clockwise in his ...

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 ...