PING i59 Forged Irons – Key Takeaways
- Replacements for the five-year-old iBlades
- i59 are multi-piece construction, better-player irons, with added forgiveness
The PING i59 replaces the iBlade. And while it looks like a one-piece forged muscle-back—it even says “forged” on the hosel—the i59 is kind of an inverse mullet: all business on the outside but a party on the inside.
The i59 head features three distinct pieces that are swaged and plasma-welded into a single unit. The body is a legit 1025 carbon steel forging while the face is laser-cut high strength 17-4 stainless steel. The third piece is the tech story for the i59—the aerospace-grade AlumiCore™ insert.
“This is a new technology,” says Ryan Stokke, PING’s Director of Product Design. “We’re manufacturing individual cores for every single iron loft that are one-third the density of traditional stainless steel.”
Ultimately, the PING i59 is an iron that looks more like a forged blade than its iBlade predecessor, with a healthy dollop of forgiveness mixed in. If you can game an i210, you should be able to game the i59.
