chippers have made a massive comeback and they're probably the most sought after club around at the
minute and because of that you might be finding it quite difficult to get your hands on one now
what i have here is a cleveland smart sole 4 and the ping chip r which are both regarded as being
probably the most popular two around on the market currently which is why in this video i'm going to
be putting these head to head against each other just to find out which is the best chipper around
at the minute so let's take a look at how these two chippers compare side by side so looks wise
between these two or at least looking at them just here or maybe if they're sat in the bag i
would have to say that the ping does just look a bit nicer however when you put them down side
by side i do still think that the ping does look a bit better but i do have to say that the cleveland
just looks like it would be a bit easier to use and it just filled me with a bit more confidence
stood over a chip shot than what the ping would do so the lofts on these do vary slightly with
the ping coming in at 38.5 degrees and the cleveland coming in at 42. to also compensate
for that they've made the shaft a bit smaller in the cleveland than they have compared to the ping
and interestingly actually the cleveland does look even shorter because the feral on it is actually
quite a lot higher up the shaft than it is with the ping one and the price point between these two
is probably one of the biggest talking points i've seen because there is quite a bit of a difference
between them with the cleveland rrp at 109 and the ping rrp at 149 it doesn't sound like there is too
much difference but there probably actually is if they're going to be doing a similar thing and i
think some of the difference in price you can put down to some of the technology that's in the ping
head so they have the micromax grooves and the hydro pearl finish something that we've seen in
the i-525 and the i-59 and whenever we see that in the ping clubs it does seem to boost the price
up so that's how the aesthetics compare now let's see how they can pair up in terms of performance
so before heading out onto the course to do a head-to-head i thought i'd just spend a bit of
time on the chiping green just getting a few first impressions for both of the chippers
i must say the cleveland does feel noticeably shorter than the ping and it just feels like
i'm going to get more control over it just because it is a bit shorter
but for me the cleveland just seems to do more what it's supposed to do and it just
feels more like a chipper than the ping does the ping just feels a bit more like an iron
so i probably spent about half an hour now on the chiping green and i don't think i'm any better
off than when i first come on to here i can't really pick much between them and i definitely
wouldn't be able to decide on one or the other based on this so i'm gonna head out onto a green
somewhere and just do a little head-to-head match and see which one comes out on top doing that
so i'm going to pick five different spots from around this green and i'm going to
hit one ball with each chipper and whichever one gets closest gets a point and then at the
end which everyone has the most points will be crowned the official best chipper of all
time so i'm going to use this callaway ball for the cleveland and this taylormade ball
for the ping so round number one and i'm going to set the pace with the ping
just a bit past the hole the cleveland just has to get inside that ball to win a point
needs to sit so one nil to ping
so this time to make it a bit more fair i'm gonna go with the cleveland one first
it's not a bad effort that you know
very good shot if i say so myself so the ping needs this now to go two nil up
thin nowhere near so one a piece now a bit more of a test of this one
absolutely bare ground bit of a mound by the bunker just in front of the green and the flag
it's not that bad but it's not that great either so there's a
lot of room for the cleveland to go 2-1 up here
that was a much better shot just made better contact and that moves the cleveland to be 2-1 up
it's going with the cleveland first again a bit further away this time
that is not a bad shot and while the ping's got to get inside that to stay in the game
has it done it
you know what i'm going to have to give that as a draw definitely can't pick anything in between
them two so it's two one up or three two up for the cleveland whichever way you want to look at
it come back now to about 50 60 yards away on to round five now the final round ping needs to win
it to get a draw from the match and the cleveland either needs a draw or win to be crowned champion
i mean there's a massive difference in height i think that could be quite close
so i don't know if you can see them with all the leaves about but there's one that's about 15 foot
away and one that's about 25 foot away so let's go see which one is which and on closer inspection
you can see that football style from a mile away and that is the cleveland at 25 foot away
with the ping being just a little bit closer now i actually think it's a bit unfair to put it all
down to just them five shots that i had there at the end and if i was going to give you my personal
opinion after spending quite a lot of time using both of these chippers i would definitely have to
say that if you are looking for a new chipper because you really are struggling with your
chipping then i think it would be a no-brainer to lean more towards the cleveland one and then on
the other side of things if you're maybe looking for a chipper and your chipping isn't actually too
bad and you may be just looking for another option or maybe you just like the idea of a chipper then
i think maybe the ping would then be a better option and that's because as i have mentioned
the main difference between these two is that the cleveland is just more like a chipper
and it just does more for what it's actually designed for where the chip r is just almost
like a normal wedge with a bit of a lower loft to it whereas and the reason why i prefer the
cleveland is is because of the extra loft on it that makes it perform a bit closer to a wedge
which is what i'm personally used to for using around the green but the actual styling of the
club is nothing like a wedge whereas the chipper is more like a wedge but hasn't got the same loft
but i also prefer the fact that the cleveland is quite a bit shorter and as i mentioned as
well before you do just feel like you get a lot more control over it that way but anyway that's
been all for today in this video so thanks for watching as usual and i'll see you in the next one