ZB2

The Ping ZB2 line runs across three releases on record here: the iN ZB2 of 2009, a Sigma 2 edition, and a ZB2 entry that carries no edition name. The through-line the record shows is a blade head built around a cutout through the center of the body, a design meant to push weight to the perimeter and raise forgiveness without abandoning the traditional blade silhouette.

The 2009 iN ZB2 is the best documented stop in the line. Golfavenue.com described the shaping as a centre body cut out redistributing weight to the perimeter, and putterzone.com put it more bluntly, cutouts through the center of the head to increase MOI, cuts holes right through the center region to redistribute weight to perimeters. That same putterzone.com writeup noted the head carries no markings or sightline, with the spine between the cutouts standing in as a natural sightline, finished in a red and black color scheme. Golfavenue.com also noted it can be custom fitted to suit every golfer's stroke.

Community opinion on that 2009 release is warm but not uncomplicated. A putterzone.com reviewer praised great feel and straightness and called it a modern design, while in the same breath comparing it unfavorably to a Newport Anser on softness, writing this one great feel popey but stright. Not as soft as a nebu anser but a modern design not bad for an old fart 10 handy cap, my new gamer. The comparison to Scotty Cameron's Newport Anser feel is the recurring tension in how this reviewer sees the head, admiration for the MOI-driven design paired with a sense that it trades away some of the softness of a more traditional blade.

The line's later chapters are thinner on documented detail. The Sigma 2 edition is noted by pluggedingolf.com simply as a blade head shape, and a ZB2 entry without an edition name is described by australiangolfdigest.com.au as a traditional blade with slight cavity, boosting MOI by 25 percent over the original, a line that suggests the Sigma 2 or later ZB2 continued refining the same MOI-through-cutout idea that defined the 2009 iN version, rather than departing from it.