Along with the new G730 model, this year's offering from Ping is rounded off by the i530 iron. Looking to sit amongst the best compact mid-handicap irons, we took them out and put them through their paces.
In terms of the technology, everything seems to have been geared towards ball speed and distance in the i530. Ping has implemented a new internal weight pad that provides a deeper to thinner face-to-sole transition which it says increases face flexing and subsequently ball speed. Ping has even used the same flexible maraging steel face that it uses in its woods and welded it to a stainless steel hollow body before applying an internal polymer to the back of the face to improve feel and again maximize face flexing.
