Redwood D66

The Redwood D66 belongs to the line Ping introduced in 2006 as its first full run of 100% milled steel putters, a lineage that our own review of the era framed as Ping finally following the rest of the industry from cast manganese bronze onto the CNC machine. That original piece covered three heads under the Redwood name, the Anser, the Piper, and the Zing, and it treated the Anser as the one that mattered most, calling it the head that "started it all for a lot of people." The D66 carries the Redwood edition name and, on the strength of golfavenue.com's reporting, sits within that same Redwood Series identity, described there as 100% milled and built from 303 stainless steel.

Our review never mentions a D66 by name, so we can't say where in that three-head arc it fell or how it compared to the Anser our writer actually tested. What we can say, from golfavenue.com's account rather than our own hands-on record, is that the D66 came finished in Black Nickel or Black Satin, with 303 stainless named again as the face material specifically. That publication also lists it as currently out of stock, which speaks to its present availability rather than to anything about the putter's design or era.

Set against the 2006 review, the throughline for this line is Ping's insistence on returning to a "non-insert" reading of its own history, our reviewer contrasting the Redwood-era Anser favorably with the G2 and G5 versions that had drifted toward "spaceship" mallet territory. Whether the D66 head shape itself was one of the Anser, Piper, or Zing profiles our review discusses isn't something the material in front of us settles, and the record here is limited to the one release row and the editorial spec listing built around it.