Bergen

The Ping Bergen arrives on record in 2016, part of a mallet push that also included the Oslo, and one that mygolfway.com placed alongside the earlier Ketsch as part of a run of high-performance designs the maker had found success with in recent years. The Bergen's mallet head carried a raised, ball-width crown alignment aid described by mygolfway.com as similar to that on the Ketsch, and golfretailing.com credited the head with a TR face and with easy alignment and tremendous stability owing to extremely high MOI. Golfalot's take was simpler and more enthusiastic, calling the combination of the new grip and TR face a formula that delivers pure gold on the green.

On build, the sourcing shows some variance worth noting rather than resolving. golfretailing.com described the body as 6061 T-6 aluminium with a 17-4 stainless sole plate, and mygolfway.com applied that same aluminium-and-steel description to the face material, while Golfalot separately named the face material simply as TR face. pluggedingolf.com's shorthand for the release was straightforward: a large mallet. Numerically, mygolfway.com is the source for the head weight at 365 grams and the length at 35 inches, figures corroborated across editorial sources.

The line's footprint beyond the golf course shows up in one further note: Wikipedia's account has a Bergen given as a gift by Norwegian Prime Minister Erna Solberg to President Trump in 2018, a detail that sits apart from the performance reporting but keeps the model's name in circulation past its release year.

As a line, Bergen is thin on record, just the one dated release, 2016, with a vault edition noted alongside it. What's held here is a single generation's worth of reviewer reaction, largely positive, pointing at alignment, stability, and face feel, with reviewers differing on how to characterize the materials rather than on whether the putter performed.