Tess

The Ping Tess line traces back to the 8802-style head, an heel/toe weighted blade shape that Ping has long kept in rotation under different names and eras. The 2017 edition, called the Tess (Sigma G), carried that same silhouette forward, with pluggedingolf.com describing it as an 8802-style head and golfalot.com calling it a classic heel/toe weighted blade with a listed head weight of 340 g.

Reception of the Sigma G Tess split along familiar lines. golfalot.com was warm on it, writing that it was great to see someone still making a classic heel/toe weighted blade and even better, one with a bit of technology in there to make it more forgiving. Mark Crossfield's take, paired with a look at the Tyne, was more measured, offering a closer look at how the Tess and Tyne looked, felt, and were designed, and what that might mean for a golfer's ability to make more putts, without landing firmly on one side. The throughline across these reactions is the idea that Ping was updating a very old blade shape with newer internals rather than replacing it outright.

The Tess name also appears on its own in the record, distinct from the Sigma G edition, carrying the same 8802-style designation per pluggedingolf.com. Across its appearances, the Tess line reads as Ping's continued stewardship of the 8802 blade profile, a shape it keeps returning to and refining rather than abandoning.