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I heard that it wasn’t the square grooves that made it illegal, but the distance between the grooves (or it may have been the distance across the grooves). Is this true? Dean Gough
I was wondering if someone could fill me in on whether the old Ping Eye 2 Irons (not the "+" model) are legal to play? Or or they banned because of their square grooves in competition? Furthermore, how do guys like these clubs? What are your favorite Ping irons? Thanks.
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says… I heard that it wasn’t the square grooves that made it illegal, but the distance between the grooves (or it may have been the distance across the grooves). Is this true? Dean Gough
It’s the distance between the grooves. A picture helps in describing what happened. If you can go to http://www.usga.org/rules/index.html#. This should open up another window that has the Rules in an on-line version. On the left frame, go down to Appendix II: Design of Clubs. From there, scroll down to 5a. Clubface. You’ll see Figure IX. When Ping first stared using square grooves, the top edges looked like the figure on the right. Those grooves were conforming, but chaffed golf balls. Ping then decided to round the top edges of the grooves. After that, the USGA decided that those types of grooves should be measured a different way and that is shown in the middle figure. Now the grooves didn’t conform. Ping never actually moved the grooves closer together, but by the time they rounded the corners and the USGA changed the way they wanted to do the measurement, adjacent grooves were deemed to close together by less than the width of a human hair. Kenny — Kenny Stultz RSG Rollcall: http://u1.netgate.net/~kirby34/rsg/stultzk.htm
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I was wondering if someone could fill me in on whether the old Ping Eye 2 Irons (not the "+" model) are legal to play? Or or they banned because of their square grooves in competition? Furthermore, how do guys like these clubs? What are your favorite Ping irons? Thanks.
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I was wondering if someone could fill me in on whether the old Ping Eye 2 Irons (not the "+" model) are legal to play? Or or they banned because of their square grooves in competition? Furthermore, how do guys like these clubs? What are your favorite Ping irons? Thanks.
Yes they are legal to use under USGA rules. They were "grandfathered" in. I don’t believe they are legal under R&A rules. Many people maintain that this is the best design Ping ever had. Kenny — Kenny Stultz RSG Rollcall: http://u1.netgate.net/~kirby34/rsg/stultzk.htm
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I heard that it wasn’t the square grooves that made it illegal, but the distance between the grooves (or it may have been the distance across the grooves). Is this true? Dean Gough
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I am looking at buying a 2-year old set of used Ping Eye 2 irons at a decent price. I currently have not used a good set of irons since my set of Staff FG-17 forged. I really liked them, but I didn’t play enough golf to get used to the inconsistency of using a "tour blade" type of iron. Please help. john
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try the pong man..I have used him and several friends have for good deals at 501 835-1643
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I live in Little Rock and have been to the pongman’s basement where he keeps his massive ping collection. Very impressive, anyone looking for used ping clubs should try him. lanny