“Draw-biased, max-forgiveness fairway wood - rung-1 help getting the ball up and turning it over, with no penalty for the forgiveness (R5).”

The fairway-wood half of Ping's 2016 SF Tec sub-line, built to fix the same chronic slice as its driver sibling but in a 3-wood/5-wood package: a head 6cc larger at address, 3.8mm deeper front-to-back, with heel-biased weight and a lighter swing weight to encourage a right-to-left flight. A slightly stronger loft spread (16°/19°) than the standard G fairway helps counter the higher, more open-faced ball flight that typically comes with a slice. Reviewers praised its low leading edge for forgiving thin strikes and described it as more of a specialist tool for players who slice fairway shots specifically than an everyday fairway wood.

No cult, and none expected - a purpose-built variant inside Ping's annual 2016 G refresh, replaced by the G400 fairway family in 2017. Reviews are positive on function but treat it as a specialist tool, not a club with any lasting reputation beyond its intended slicer audience.

For players who slice their fairway woods specifically (a different miss than slicing a driver) and want help drawing the ball back into play; a player who already hits a straight or draw ball flight with fairway woods should use the standard G fairway instead, which won't over-correct into a hook.

• Head is 6cc larger at address and 3.8mm deeper than the standard 2016 G fairway wood.
• Offered in only two lofts, 16° and 19°, both slightly stronger than the standard G fairway's range.
• Stock shaft is the counterbalanced Ping Alta, matching the counterbalanced setup Ping used across its 2016 G-series woods.
• Shares its heel-weighting philosophy with the G SF Tec driver released the same year.
• A lower leading edge than the standard G fairway was specifically called out in reviews as reducing thin mis-hits.

Released alongside the G SF Tec driver and the neutral G / low-spin G Stretch fairway woods in Ping's 2016 range, all superseded by the G400 fairway family in 2017.

Inexpensive and plentiful as a superseded 2016 Ping fairway wood: trades privately around $45-$85 in 2026 depending on loft and shaft, with no scarcity premium.