The Ping Eye 2 Be/Cu clubs are the most sought after, desirable clubs on the market. Perimeter weighting, square grooves(yes all clubs now have square grooves, but with spacing of grooves now illegal to produce), but with a soft feel unique to the club head material. I am now an owner of 4 sets of these clubs. One set for my home course and one for the resort club both for me, and my 16 year old son. I would suggest a bit of advice on purchasing these clubs. First, I would not suggest you look just at height and decide to purchase an orange set if you are 5 foot 6 to 9 inches in height. Play with a set of Ping Eye 2 clubs, and decide if your divot indicates that you have a need for a more or less upright set. While I have a height that would suggest an orange set, I find the black dot set to have a divot far more symmetrical, with neither the toe nor the heel digging deeper into the turf. Condition is important, and none are standard on used clubs. A photo is the only way of determining the condition of a club. Buy the very best clubs you can in the very best condition you can afford. You can't take it with you, and you will always be glad you paid more. Expect to pay in the $400-600 range for a good set of these clubs with a sand wedge. An excellent used lob wedge will cost $250-300. Pay for the better club, you will be happier. Look at the bands on the club. A black and blue banded club is one made for the US. One made for Japan will be black with green. Either is fine. You can always call Ping to determine that this is a men's club, and that the serial number is consistent with the color of the lie. An original ping grip with diamond or double diamond grips will probably mean that you have clubs that have had relatively little use in the past. I would rather see a set of clubs with original grips in poor condition but beautiful club heads and regrip them, instead of clubs with relatively poor photos not showing details but with nice grips. Ping eye 2 clubs are not rare clubs, but there are currently no better clubs, and the Be/Cu are the best of the series. Shell out the big bucks for a great set and you will not regret it. If you are not playing well with them, go ahead and get a lesson. It is not the clubs, it is your swing. Unless wear indicates I need to replace my sets, I expect I will be playing these sets for the next three decades while I can still walk and play golf. If wear on the club face indicates I need to replace them, you can expect me on EBay bidding the replace them. If they are running $3000 for a set in 2020, I will be paying that. The price you pay for these items are going to be influenced as they have by supply and demand. Expect the demand to go up, and the supply to go down.Read full review
Wonderful club head material and has been for years in terms of "impact" feedback whether it's a cast or a forged club. As such I own several Beryllium wedges and two sets of the Eye 2's. Ping enjoyed a nice run with the sqaure grooves but even the U grooves are wonderful in the cast article. Cleveland Golf had a nice offering with their less forgiving forged Tour Action 588 Beryillim wedges as did Hogan but they are getting kinda scarce now too. The only thing I might add to the Ping irons comments here is that their shafts were typically kinda stiff for the average player and one might be better served with a softer conversion over to True Temper's Dynamic Gold line up for maximum playablity. Playing golf with shafts that are too stiff reduces game enjoyment dramatically and remains a very common mistake even today. No sense in making this game any tougher than it already is so do your research on the color codes and be realistic as to what your collective costs will be while tailoring these sticks to your particular needs and abilities. Oh and keep an eye on 'em too especially when playing in foreign territory as these sticks are much sought after and do ahm have a tendency to disappear.Read full review
These PING Eye 2 Beryllium Copper Irons are awesome. This being my 2nd set after the original set I had purchased new in Hawaii 20 years ago and played with as my most prized and coveted possession were thrown in the ocean off my boat by my ex-wife after I didn't return from playing golf in Scotland on time. These are without a doubt the most forgiving irons ever made ( eight iron out of 2 foot high Scottish rough and then ball backs up 7 feet upon impact on the green at Turnberry) and light years ahead of their time. Needless to say much more so than my ex-wife, that evil PING club destroyer shrew. If you are fortunate to secure a set, protect them with your life and probably for safe measure store them in a non disclosed location so as not to be subjected to ever having them taken from you ruining the best thing in golf that being irons including both the 2 and 3 iron that you can actually hit. The best irons ever made without any doubt !!Read full review
I bought a set of used Eye 2 steels for a few hundred bucks when I was in high school...over ten years ago. I played the s##t out of these clubs, and they eventually started to show the abuse (tough to do with cast clubs). Still managed to sell them for almost $200 dollars on Ebay. Put that money toward another set...this time the becu, which should be arriving in the mail here in a few days. Can't wait to get the same playability in the magic metal. Without question the best equipment investment ever made. Oh, yeah picked up the becus for $300....the plus model...but I honestly don't see the groove issue to be the huuge difference that it's played up to be. Bottom line, plus model or no.......unbelievable clubs!
I have had the opportunity to hit this Ping set with many different shafts installed, yet these shafts appear to be very well matched to these BeCu Ping Eye2 iron heads. Now all I need to do is to find out who makes these shafts and their properties that seems to make them such a good match. That will give me something to do after golf season.
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned