Fetch

The Fetch line begins on record with the Heppler Fetch of 2020, a mallet built with cast aluminum in the head, according to TGW.com. Plugged In Golf's coverage called it a new favorite and described its color scheme as primarily copper. Already the shape that would define the line was in place: a mallet with a distinctive cavity meant for something other than just rolling the ball.

By 2021 that cavity had a name and a purpose. Golf Monthly described the Fetch as built with several different materials to push weight to the perimeter, increasing MOI, and Plugged In Golf pointed to a design change: a cover over the unique ball retrieving cutout. The maker's page, per 2ndSwing.com, listed a dual-durometer face insert with a front layer of Pebax, softer, and a back layer firmer, aimed at golfers with little to no arc in their putting strokes. Community-adjacent reviewers were largely won over. One review praised the soft face ideal for putting on fast greens and called it a very stable and well-balanced putter, while also criticising it for not being adjustable for length like the previous Sigma 2 models, a limitation Golf Monthly's review noted as well. Golf Monthly went further, calling it comfortably one of the best Ping putters of recent times.

The undated PING Fetch entry on record carries some of the same DNA, listing a PEBAX Insert and a 365g head weight per Carl's Golf Land, alongside Golf Monthly's note of a cut-out ball holder in the base used to pick ball out of hole and Australian Golf Digest's description of a smaller mallet with ball sized hole in back cavity. Where this release sits against the dated ones isn't something the record sorts out on its own, but the ball-retrieval cutout clearly kept its place as the line's signature.

The 2024 Fetch Putter tightens the shape further. Ping's own page describes it as a straight-taper, midsized pistol with larger flat surfaces for increased face awareness, and notes a 17" grip that is heavier than a standard grip to act as a counterweight for more stability and control throughout the stroke. Ca.ping.com lists it as a mallet with a straight stroke type, a 3° ±2° loft, and a 365g head weight corroborated by both ping.com and Carl's Golf Land. EU.ping.com describes the face as a PEBAX insert w/smooth milled surround with a glare-diffusing raw blast finish, and the sole cutout returns explicitly for retrieving made putts and increasing MOI. Ping's own marketing line, echoed on both ping.com and ca.ping.com, says Fetch fans laud the more compact profile as easy to aim, a sentiment matched by reviewer praise for the compact profile easy to aim, soft feel on shorter putts, and stable feel on longer lag putts. Four years and four releases in, the Fetch line reads as a mallet that has held onto its retrieval gimmick while steadily trading size and adjustability for compactness and counterweighted stability.