PLD Milled line

The PING PLD Milled line arrived in 2022 as one piece of a broader PLD rollout, which pluggedingolf.com reported as three distinct lines: Milled, Limited, and Custom. According to that same reporting, the line was built to cover all three types of putting strokes, straight, slight arc, and strong arc, suggesting Ping was positioning PLD Milled as a full-spectrum offering rather than a single specialist shape.

On the Community side, opinion on this release is split down a fairly predictable line. Pluggedingolf.com's review was mixed, praising the feel as nice and unique while raising concerns about the price relative to where the putters are made, noting the carbon steel heads come from China rather than the USA at a cost north of $450 before tax, and adding that the line doesn't bring any new technology to justify that gap. That tension, feel against price and origin, is the throughline of what's on record for this release.

Ping's own page for the line keeps its language centered on the pistol shape rather than on manufacturing claims, describing the mid-sized pistol shape as designed to make it easier to square the face at impact, and pointing to a newer, smoother texture with a larger pistol form meant to draw more attention to the face. That's a shape and address argument, not a materials or technology one, which lines up with the Community's read that this release leans on execution and feel rather than a new mechanism.