PLD Prime Tyne 4

The PLD Prime Tyne 4 is Ping's limited take on a mallet that had already made its case in the Sigma 2 lineup. The maker's page lists the body as milled S25C carbon steel with a black PVD finish, and 2ndswing.com's listing describes the head as nearly identical to the Sigma 2 Tyne 4, just slightly more compact with less material behind the heel and toe. It's a familiar shape tightened up rather than reinvented.

The construction details point toward a putter built for stability. Carlsgolfland.com's listing puts head weight at 360 grams with extra weighting behind the toe and heel for high MOI, a milled T6 6061 aluminum hosel, and a stealth stepless steel shaft. The maker's page lists it as designed for players with a slight arc in their putting stroke, and carlsgolfland.com's copy adds that it's meant for those with a tendency to pull their putts. It ships with a PING PP58 Black Midsize grip.

Hagginoaks.com credits the design to Cameron Champ and calls it inspired by the Tyne, Sigma G, and Sigma 2 putters, framing it as a limited edition release sold on pre-order in small quantities, with room for customized inserts, weights, and hosel options. Community opinion on hagginoaks.com is enthusiastic on the performance side, praising it as made to take your putting to the next level with extreme accuracy and forgiveness, language that lines up with the maker-published claim of high MOI and ample forgiveness on off-center strikes.

Set against the standard Sigma 2 Tyne 4, the PLD Prime version reads as a dressed-up, tightened-up variant rather than a departure. The same mallet geometry carries over almost unchanged, with the compactness behind heel and toe and the black PVD finish doing most of the work to separate this release from its stablemate.