PLD Limited Pal

The 2023 PLD Limited Pal is Ping's revival of the Pal head under its PLD Limited banner, according to thegolfwire.com. The outlet's reporting traces the Pal design back to a 1971 debut, with an original cast manganese bronze construction, and describes this 2023 version as 100% milled from an aluminum/bronze alloy with a natural finish. The head design carries a shorter blade length and an Anser hosel, per the same report, with perimeter weighting.

What sets the Pal apart in the record is the résumé thegolfwire.com attaches to it rather than any spec sheet. The outlet credits the design with more than 100 tour wins, including three of the four majors (three Open Championships, two Masters, and a U.S. Open), a run of three Open wins in four years in the early 1980s, a hand in the first sub-60 round on the PGA Tour in 1977, and a Masters win in 1988. None of that history is verified independently here, and it should be read as one publication's account of the model's lineage rather than an established fact.

As a release, this PLD Limited Pal is listed by thegolfwire.com as sold, consistent with the limited framing of the PLD line. Against the rest of Ping's PLD output, the Pal reads as a callback piece, a modern milled remake built to trade on a decades-old shape rather than introduce a new one.