Ping Eye 2

[BigJim13]

Got a chance to grab a set of Eye 2's for $75 shipped....very seriously considering it if only to flip and sell. I have never had a set of Eye2's and am very happy with my i3's. Its to soon to be getting stir crazy for spring!

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

Eye 2's are classics, $75 isn't bad. What is the makeup of the set?

 

[MCDavis]

Get 'em, hit 'em, flip 'em!

 

[Louie_T07]

Get 'em, hit 'em, flip 'em!

YUP!! what MC said!!

 

[BigJim13]

Eye 2's are classics, $75 isn't bad. What is the makeup of the set?

Ping Eye 2, square groove, 3-PW with Ping KT-M stiff steel. I know zip about the shaft.

 

[MCDavis]

Ping Eye 2, square groove, 3-PW with Ping KT-M stiff steel. I know zip about the shaft.

That was Ping's stiff steel shaft they put in the Eye 2's.

Since I made a wisecrack, I also did a quick Google search. Check this info: ping KT vs KT-M shafts - Classic Golf And Golfers - GolfWRX

 

[BigJim13]

That was Ping's stiff steel shaft they put in the Eye 2's.

Since I made a wisecrack, I also did a quick Google search. Check this info: ping KT vs KT-M shafts - Classic Golf And Golfers - GolfWRX

Yeah I did the same!

I may have missed the boat, just went to get them and they are gone!

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

Yeah I did the same!

I may have missed the boat, just went to get them and they are gone!

Boo!

 

[BigJim13]

Boo!

Hesitated...should know better by now.

 

[Fairwaysplitter3320]

Hesitated...should know better by now.

I hear ya!

 

[Rockford35]

You didn't miss out on much. The Eyes were not a great iron. A classic, but nothing special beyond a collectors item now.

R35

 

[azgreg]

A lot of love for them around here. I could never get over the amount of offset.

 

[BigJim13]

You didn't miss out on much. The Eyes were not a great iron. A classic, but nothing special beyond a collectors item now.

R35

I've never hit them, held a few before. Never really liked the look of them, was thinking of flipping more than anything. I'm really happy with the i3's.

 

[WWBDD]

You didn't miss out on much. The Eyes were not a great iron. A classic, but nothing special beyond a collectors item now.

R35

I'm sure that's heresy to many ... the cult of Eye 2s is even stronger than the cult of niblicks.

 

[limpalong]

Tuning in late. What you describe sounds suspicious. Ping did not put the KT-M in any of the Eye 2 irons... except by special order long after the model was obsolete. The KT shaft was introduced in the Eye 2+ series. The Eye 2 line was almost exclusively the ZZ Lite shaft, with the BeCu Eye 2's having the Brunswick MicroTaper in them. The KT stood for 'Karsten Tour'. Pretty stiff shaft, but extremely thin walled. Held up fairly well in the Eye 2+ line.
When the Zing line was introduced, Karsten stayed with the KT shaft. Immediately, the shafts began kinking/bending/snapping just above the hosel on the Zing line. Karsten had TT use a heavier tip and renamed it the KT-M... KT 'Modified'. The Eye 2+ was still popular and many playing Pings thought the Zing "butt ugly". So... for quite a while, both the Zing and the Eye 2+ were sent out OEM with the KT-M shaft.
If the set you saw had KT-M shafts, they had undoubtedly been changed... or the seller didn't know what he was talking about. If the Eye 2 irons were sent back to Ping to be reshafted with the KT-M shaft, that would also have been a possibility. OTOH, at that price they may well have been a 'patched up' set with a mix of both ZZ Lite and KT-M shafts that had been used to replace broken/bent ZZ Lites.