DS72

The DS72 line runs across seven releases on record, beginning with the PLD Milled DS72 of 2022 and continuing through the DS72 (2023), PING DS72 C (2023), the 2023 DS72 Armlock, and into 2024 with the PLD Milled DS72 and the PLD Milled 2024 DS72 Gunmetal, plus an undated PLD Milled DS72 entry. Across the line, Ping's head weight and loft hold steady where recorded, 365 g and roughly 3 degrees, and the round mallet shape carries through generation to generation. Pluggedingolf.com and golfalot.com both trace the shape's design inspiration to Viktor Hovland, a thread that tgw.com later repeats for the 2024 PLD Milled version, so the line's identity as a Hovland-associated mallet appears to hold across its middle years.

The 2022 PLD Milled DS72 set the terms reviewers kept returning to. Golfalot.com found it "more stable and a lot easier to line up than the Anser," while pluggedingolf.com said the Ping feels "tighter" a tad heavier and, well, more focused, adding it looked "certainly better looking." Pluggedingolf.com also logged the finish as satin chrome and the balance as face balanced, details that recur, in substance if not always in exact wording, in later releases: ping.com's own listing for the PLD Milled DS72 also calls it face-balanced.

2023 brought the line's widest spread in a single year, with the standard DS72, the DS72 C, and the DS72 Armlock all released. Mortongolfsales.com praised the standard DS72's shape as aesthetically pleasing for the mid-mallet player and noted a shallow milled face alongside a platinum topline against a black cavity, a finish detail ping.com corroborates independently. The DS72 C drew a split reaction: reviewers praised its high MOI and low CG for forgiveness and its alignment aid, but at least one review criticised its feel as not as good as the likes of a Scotty Cameron putter, a contrast worth noting rather than resolving. Golfmagic.com, reviewing the same head, still called the DS72 C model extremely impressive.

By 2024, the PLD Milled DS72 returned with reported changes at the face: tgw.com describes a deep AMP, or Aggressive Milling Pattern, milled into 303 stainless steel, and golf.com notes larger sloped bumpers in the cavity, a shift from the shallow face milling mortongolfsales.com had flagged on the 2023 DS72. The Gunmetal variant of that year carried a face-balanced build in milled steel with a soft feel, per tgw.com, closing out the line's arc from the satin-chrome, tighter-feeling 2022 original to a darker-finished, more aggressively milled 2024 iteration built around the same round mallet shape.