Zing 2

The Zing 2 line begins in 1986 with the Beryllium Copper original, a cast head built around a beryllium copper face. golfbluebook.com described it as heel-toe weighted to minimize twisting on off-center strikes, and credited its lower center of gravity with reducing skidding and getting the ball rolling more quickly, which the outlet tied to improved speed and direction control. That same source called it aesthetically pleasing, with clean optics that promote confidence, a description echoed elsewhere in the record's own notes on the release. Whether that reputation was earned on the green or built on the strength of Ping's Anser-era design language is left for the reader to decide, but the 1986 Zing 2 stands as the line's founding release.

The name then goes quiet in the record until 2023, when Ping revives it through its PLD Limited program with the PLD Limited Zing 2. This is a different putter in material and intent: thegolfwire.com reported a 303 stainless steel face, a natural finish, and 100% milled construction, fully machined and custom-built by PING WRX master craftsmen at the company's headquarters in Phoenix, Arizona. The outlet also tied the release to history rather than pure geometry, reporting that it honors Curtis Strange's 1988 U.S. Open victory, part of a career the same source says included three major titles, all at the U.S. Open, including 1988 and 1989. Where the 1986 original was pitched on feel and forgiveness, this revival is pitched on commemoration.

That commemorative thread continues with the PLD Limited Ping Slam Zing 2, part of what australiangolfdigest.com.au called the Ping Slam collection, precision-milled and offered in strictly limited numbers, only 88 of each model per that report, with a custom headcover unique to each of the four Majors and an MSRP of 990 USD according to the same outlet. The publication also linked the release to Seve Ballesteros's 1988 Open Championship win, extending the pattern set by the Curtis Strange edition of tying a specific Zing 2 build to a specific major triumph rather than to a shared spec sheet.

Across nearly forty years on record, the Zing 2 name has carried two distinct identities: a working beryllium copper putter praised in 1986 for its optics and weighting, and a 21st century revival built less as an update to that design than as a vehicle for major championship history, first Strange's U.S. Opens, then Ballesteros's Open Championship. Readers weighing the name today are really weighing which era of it they're buying into.