Cabrera becomes first Ping player to win Masters
AUGUSTA, Ga. – Ping Golf received a huge 50th anniversary present on Sunday evening. At 7:32 Eastern time, Trevor Immelman slipped a green jacket on Angel Cabrera in Butler Cabin at Augusta National.
Cabrera becomes the first Ping staff player to ever win a Masters title.
As is tradition, Ping will now make a solid gold replica of the putter Cabrera used to win the tournament, and place it in a vault in the company's Scottsdale headquarters. This video gives you an inside look into the vault.
Cabrera's i-Series 1/2 Craz-E putter tips the scales at 385 grams. With the current price of gold at $879 an ounce, that's $27,249 worth of bling!
Cabrera also had a new lob wedge in the bag at Augusta. Ping's new Tour W TS wedge (Thin Sole) is just arriving in pro shops. It is designed to provide players with the ability to hit better shots off thin, tight lies. Like other Tour W wedges, the TS has a tungsten toe weight and a small thermoplastic urethane insert to increase the moment of inertia and enhance feel.
Once again, here is a complete list of all the clubs in Cabrera's bag at the Masters:
Driver: Rapture (7.5°)
Fairway wood: Rapture V2 (15.5°)
Irons: G10 (2), S57 (3-PW)
Wedges: Ping Tour-W (54°), Tour W TS (60°)
Putter: i Series 1/2 Craz-E B
Posted by: Golf Hack | Apr 18, 2009 7:35:55 PM
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Posted by: Sean | Apr 14, 2009 11:52:34 AM
Good for ping. I just got that rapture driver that Angel used for his masters and US Open wins for $200, great deal and a great driver.
Posted by: crusty sailor | Apr 14, 2009 7:54:03 AM
First place prize was somewhere around 1.3 million
Posted by: FRANK PERROTTA | Apr 13, 2009 2:04:32 PM
How much cash did Cabrera win at Masters?
Posted by: Kevin Saunder | Apr 13, 2009 2:28:06 AM
Yes, Angel is the first "PAID" staff to win the masters but think about all the non paid players using their clubs to win. That's the true measure of how good the clubs are, especially in this day and age.
385 grams of gold sure is a lot of gold, especially they have to make 2 of them, one for Angel, one for the vault.
Posted by: S57 | Apr 13, 2009 1:33:30 AM
ping is no frill, all work, blue collar clubs and congrats on the well deserved recognition.