“A low-spin players' fairway wood (rung-3 posture) - strong, forward-CG performance for fast swings; slower swings give up launch and forgiveness.”

The Stretch was Ping's answer to the 'mini-driver' trend that TaylorMade and Callaway were riding hard in 2017: take the G400 3-wood platform, strengthen the loft to a single 13 degrees, grow the head 12cc to 193cc, and push the CG further forward than the standard G400 3-wood to kill spin off the tee. Ping deliberately left grooves out of the center of the face — reasoning that a club used mostly for driving-range-style tee shots doesn't need spin control there, only ball speed. The maraging-steel face (Ping's strongest face alloy at the time) added roughly 2 mph of ball speed over the prior G-series fairway faces. It slotted in as Ping's rung-3, low-spin fairway option alongside the more forgiving standard G400 and SFT fairways, aimed squarely at fast-swinging players who wanted a lower, more penetrating flight than a full-size driver but more forgiveness than a true 2-wood or strong 3-wood.

No cult footprint: it was a one-year variant inside the larger G400 fairway lineup, reviewed favorably as a solid low-spin option but never singled out as a must-hunt club the way some Ping fairways from the 1990s are. It was quietly succeeded by the G410/G410 LST fairway line in 2019 on Ping's normal product cycle.

Best for faster-swinging players (Ping's own fitting places it above roughly 95 mph total swing speed territory) who hit the standard G400 3-wood too high and too spinny and want a driver-off-the-deck option. Slower swingers give up launch and forgiveness versus the standard G400 or SFT fairway and should look at those instead.

• 13-degree loft (adjustable +/-1 degree via the PING Trajectory Tuning hosel) and 193cc head, 12cc larger than the standard G400 3-wood.
• Face intentionally left groove-free through the center, on the logic that off-the-tee shots with a 3-wood don't need iron-style spin control.
• Built with a maraging-steel face — a stronger alloy than Ping's prior fairway face material, adding an estimated 2 mph of ball speed.
• CG positioned more forward than both the standard G400 and G400 SFT fairways specifically to reduce spin for faster swingers.
• Standard length of 43 inches, longer than a typical 3-wood, reinforcing its role as a driver-replacement rather than a fairway-finder.

Launched alongside the full G400 family (driver, SFT, LST, irons) in 2017, competing with TaylorMade's M1/M2 fairways and Callaway's Great Big Bertha Epic Sub Zero fairway for the low-spin tee-shot-alternative niche. Superseded in 2019 by the G410 LST Fairway, which cut roughly another 300-500 rpm of spin off the same low-spin concept.

A little-searched, single-season variant: realistic 2026 private-party pricing runs roughly $50-$90 for a clean head-and-shaft combo, similar to other 2017-era Ping fairway woods once the driver-alternative novelty faded. It is not a collectible; buyers are paying for a usable low-spin fairway, not the Stretch name.