G2 Anser D

The Ping G2 Anser D Putter carries a single release on our record, dated to 2002. There's no arc to trace here in the usual sense, no line of years pulling a design forward through revisions. What we hold is one putter, one moment in Ping's ongoing reworking of the Anser shape.

The maker's page, as reported by 2ndswing.com, lists a higher moment of inertia as the design feature and the innovation behind this release, a departure from the original Anser's simpler blade geometry in favor of more forgiveness built into the head.

Reviewers who've spent time with the G2 Anser D speak of it in terms that outlast its release date. 2ndswing.com's writeup put it plainly: "Still comparable to putters made ten years later, the feel and forgiveness of this putter is timeless." Others echo that read, pointing to the higher MOI as the source of both its forgiveness and what they describe as a durable, long-lasting appeal, the kind of putter that doesn't announce its age even as newer designs stack up around it.

With only the one release on file, the G2 Anser D reads less as a line with a history and more as a single well-regarded entry in the larger Anser story, one that reviewers keep coming back to describe as feeling newer than its year suggests.