ryanmn4

Long time i210 player, and maybe it's just me, but I didn't notice anything significantly different in feel & sound. Performance numbers were similar too. Yeah they're not a forged blade, duh. Like a lot of others I dislike the look on the rack but I think they look really good at address. I can get over the back badge and will likely end up with a BP S - i240 blended set.

I ran down to the PGATSS today for a little touch & feel sesh. The 240s do not look better in person, on the rack. All the things we've been complaining about are true and legitimate, mainly the carbon strip and the red i. However, they look fantastic on the ground and at address. They sit cleanly and squarely, the groove width looks much better (than the 230s), and the short irons are a bit cleaner & more compact than my 210s. In the longer irons the offset is a bit less pronounced than the 210s. Basically they've taken everything I wanted in an i-series and slapped an ugly cavity on it. *Sigh* they'll still be an option when I get my next set later this year. Off topic, but the new T100/T150 look really good, and the T250 look even better. I could definitely see a T150/T250 blended set as a viable option. P770s also look really clean and sit great behind the ball.

Yeah to be fair, I guess the Pings are still a hair cheaper than the Titleists (I looked), I'm just a bad WRXer and I only buy new irons once or twice a decade. The sticker shock is hitting me. The 400 series is the cash cow?? I feel like I never see those anywhere

I'm a bit too young to remember prices in the 80s, although I did play a hand-me-down set of Eye-2s in high school in the 90s. If I recall that was (and is) the best selling set of irons of all time, in a unique time, and not really a good proxy for today. No, I'm talking about seven years ago when I could get a full set of i-series for just over half of what they are now. Just a few years farther back and Ping was offering i-series for roughly $700/set and Ansers for $1,400/set. I remember drooling over the Ansers (eventually played a set for a few years), but thinking that those were for the rich guys. Modern i-series HAVE been the affordable set. It does seem to me like a poor value, especially if they're priced at or slightly higher than what have always been premium sets, i.e. the Titleists and Mizunos. That goes double for it being a cast iron. I'm actually in the market this year, and after a few decades of playing Pings they'll definitely be on the list. I'm just saying that they'd have been a shoe-in if they were a couple hundred a set less than the Titleists. Now it's open season.