PLD Milled Anser

The PLD Milled Anser is Ping's blade in the PLD Milled program, built for slight-arc strokes and set apart from the rest of the Anser catalog by a matte black finish and a fully milled construction. Verified specs put loft at 3° +3°/-2° (ping.com, cpg.golf agree) and put type and stroke fit as Blade and Slight Arc, respectively, per mortongolfsales.com. Golfalot.com lists an MSRP of £399.

Everything else on file comes from the outlets that reviewed it, not from a single confirmed source, and the picture they paint is consistent even where the numbers wobble. Mortongolfsales.com and cpg.golf both give a head weight in the 350 gram range, though they don't quite agree on the last few grams (355 g versus 350 g), and finish gets described variously as matte black, gunmetal, and simply a blacked-out look depending on who's writing. The face is called Deep AMP by ping.com and Shallow Milled by mortongolfsales.com, another spot where the record holds two different characterizations rather than one.

On performance, the reviewers line up more closely than the spec sheets do. Mortongolfsales.com writes that a slight-arc blade player with a right-miss tendency will have an easier time squaring the face at impact, and ping.com's own copy makes the same claim in nearly the same words, that for slight-arc stroke types, the Anser makes squaring the face to the target line easy and natural. Nationalclubgolfer.com adds a note on looks, that they love this blacked-out look and think the milled face gives this a really premium feel overall, while golfalot.com goes further still, saying they could have honestly putted balls all day long with the Anser. The one recurring knock, per golfalot.com, is the absence of an alignment aid, which some read as harder to line up. Golfalot.com also notes the head carries a milling process it describes as taking more than four hours, deep Aggressive Milling Pattern (AMP) work on a 303 stainless steel face.