At the World Wide Technology Championship, Austin Eckroat’s win was part of a huge week for Ping across worldwide tours. The OEM had drivers win on the PGA, DP World, LPGA and Champions Tours.
But on this week’s GOLF’s Fully Equipped, co-hosts Kris McCormack and Wadeh Maroun looked deeper in Eckroat’s bag for his second PGA Tour title, to his split set of Ping Blueprint S and Blueprint T irons.
The Blueprint S and T were released earlier this year and are the next generation of the original Blueprint iron which McCormack recalled as a very visually intimidating iron.
“Historically for Gen 1 Blueprint, it was one of the smallest, most intimidating irons that was in the drawer at True Spec. And I mean, you had to be the elite of the elite, ball striker, to make this thing work consistently well for you,” McCormack said. “Had a great feel, but man, it was intimidating to look at. Especially when you got up into that 3-, 4-, 5-iron.”
Then the evolved versions, a cavity-back Blueprint S and muscle-back Blueprint T, started popping up in Tour bags and eventually made their way to retail in January, providing options for the best ball strikers that wasn’t possible with the original.
“Blueprint S, Blueprint T, footprint changed a little bit, but still has that thin top line, nice face progression, little bit of offset, and the ability to combo those is really, really cool,” McCormack added.
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Additionally, both the Blueprint irons can be blended with Ping’s popular i230 irons to increase the number of possible combinations and fit as many players as possible, including McCormack.
“If I had to go out right now, million dollars on the line, what irons am I putting in the bag? And I was talking about the i230s and the Blueprint S, the Blueprint T combo with that i230 as well,” he said. “So I mean, you’ve got the ability to put together a set that could consist of three irons, all the same lofts, and very similar design as far as who they are targeting for that particular demographic. I’ve hit all three of them. I’m definitely more of that I230 and Blueprint S guy in the way bottom end of the bag.”
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Both McCormack and Maroun agreed, even though Blueprint T is a traditional blade, it was surprisingly playable, especially for toe misses.
“It still felt like it had some kind of forgiveness in there that is going to help you,” Maroun said. “So you’re not going to lose 15, 20 yards on a mishit.”
For more from this week’s episode of Fully Equipped, check it out below.
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