Is the new season of drivers we know that obviously we've got the taylormade driver. And we've had the callaway driver um there's a cobra coming soon i can definitely set it. Or not but there is um here we can. And there's some other bits and bobs out of the year one brand who aren't bringing a driver this year is ping is this now being confirmed it's confirmed i might not tell my source just. Yet um who my source is. But it's confirmed so basically um a couple of reasons why um but ping aren't bringing out a new drive this year at all and the g425 will stay current until next.
Year to 2023 wow. And the reason i want to call that out was because i i'm using the ping. And i know you are. And i just think it's a really good driver not only. For everybody it's not the most conventional looking driver the termite is on the top of hate sounds not. For everybody but for me that max head does feel forgiving it looks bigger it's mad when i was younger i'd love a real per-shaped drive. And now i want a huge footprint i'd have a squirt drive if i could actually now i want something big and for me that's what i get so it's definitely one that i think if you're looking at a new drive it's i try it it could be a bit marmite. But i saw somebody tweet you today.
And said hi rick do you know if the ping's getting replaces i want one um. But i don't know if it's going to get replaced. Or superseded very soon so the thing is though if it's the start of 2023 yeah it's only been out two years well yes. And no because it has. But it actually launched a lot earlier in australia if you remember it was announced about six months prior. So in theory although you're correct in the uk yeah in the uk i've only been able to purchase it. For let's say what would have been just over two years and that's also if it launched at the start i don't know when it will. But in reality it'll be in people's minds and they'll have seen it for what it's gonna come to about maybe not three years weirdly what's interesting though and i've been told by members of staff in stores it's gone up in price it's about 20 quid so to buy one new now the ping g425 25 max in england the uk is 420 quid i think it was 400 before. So i just thought it was kind of our almost not our duty. But i just want to give it to people who public service well yeah if you're after a ping from what i've heard which is genuine source is not replaced until 2023. um interesting. And also what's different do you think more brands should do that yes well what's the difference with ping is it's owned like family-owned it is whereas other brands obviously kind of publicly trade don't have shareholders. And all that kind of stuff so they need every year you need a massive influx of cash from new drivers whereas obviously people want to lose money clearly but within a family-owned business they can do things like this i think due to coronavirus due to other other aspects as well if you will have the next.
Driving nail done i can almost guarantee that like. So let's just call it ping g450 or whatever it's going to be called that will be made i can guarantee that maybe not in massive quantity. And that will be ready to launch whenever they want to launch in 2023 whatever that might be. But for now it's not going to get um replaced. So i just want to bring that in as a little topic because it's interesting more brands do it a lot of people have been waiting. For g425s yeah as well i think it's been a bit of a battle it's one of the worst effective brands by all the code stuff i now played at stockbrother day as i said earlier on there was a guy come in that day i believe who ordered pingai in six months earlier wow. And they would just come in that day so it's taking them six months um but yeah we i think people would like that brands more as i don't know if ping will come out. And say this i think they should it'd be quite cool hollywood do it how they would kind of market this if they came out. And said look our driver isn't getting replayed. For the year so go out and enjoy the g425 whatever we've not beat it yet or whatever however. they want to spin it that would be interesting i just think a dead simple logo like still the best tick yeah it's like this is different we said that we had a brand i don't know if it's on the podcast. But our brand came to present us a product who kind of admitted that the g425 was what they call a unicorn driver yeah because it kind of does everything you want. And it's very hard to do that yeah it's forgiving it's long it's blah blah blah yeah um right that's a good episode back how long was that matt 1 hour 15. whoa not bad three it is yeah. And this will be out the same day of recording it this is actually one of those weird ones with the same day.
