Tyne

The Ping Tyne name has run through seven releases, starting with the Sigma G Tyne in 2017 and carrying forward through Prime, Heppler, and Sigma 2 editions before landing on a 2023 Prime Tyne 4. Across that stretch it has stayed a mallet, and stayed recognizable as one, even as Ping rotated the materials and finishes underneath it.

The Sigma G Tyne opened the line with a 370 g head (verified, mygolfway.com) and a design golfalot.com described as a mid-sized shape with lovely smooth lines and prongs designed to pick up a golf ball when your putt is conceded. Golf Monthly called it a mallet already finding traction on tour with Lee Westwood, and 2ndswing.com credited it with True Roll Face Technology with variable-depth grooves and a high-MOI head with perimeter weighting. Mark Crossfield's take was more measured, giving the Tyne and its Tess stablemate a closer look at their feel and design rather than an unqualified endorsement. The following year's Ping Prime Tyne carried the name onto tour in a different way: hagginoaks.com credits it as the putter Cameron Champ used to his first PGA Tour victory at the Sanderson Farm Championship, finishing second overall in putting and one-putting his last six holes of the final round.

By 2021, the Tyne 4 arrived as, per pluggedingolf.com, the only non-blade carryover from the recent Heppler collection, finished in black with a white alignment line and a two-layer dual-durometer insert. Reviewers were split on what that construction produced at impact. Pluggedingolf.com praised the roll it put on the ball, writing that it finally registered that the face put a lovely roll on the ball, while golfaustralia.com.au's review of a later Tyne noted it resonated a tad hollow compared to the other two heads it was tested against. That same golfaustralia.com.au piece still called the Tyne 4 its favorite of the three, and found that the mallet's forgiveness matched with the toe flow of its slant neck never felt awkward despite the head's size.

The line's most recent entry, the PING 2023 Prime Tyne 4, leaned further into stability for a strong arc stroke. Tgw.com pitched it as ideal for golfers who want maximum forgiveness and stability with a mallet but need more toe hang for a strong arc putting stroke, while golfsupport.com praised its looks outright, calling every detail carefully chosen to give a stand-out putter in both looks and performance. Ping's own page for the current Tyne 4 describes a straight-taper, midsized pistol grip with larger flat surfaces for increased face awareness and designated markings to help golfers establish a consistent, confident setup over every putt, language that also appears on the concurrent Tyne G and Tyne H pages, suggesting the grip and setup philosophy now runs across the whole family rather than any one head shape.