Closer Look at MX1000

This is Mizuno's very best entrance into the "Super-Game Improvement” category. If you need long and straight, don't mind a slightly chunky looking iron, and like something that conducts the feel of a good shot so that you might graduate to "Game Improvement Irons" or even "Player's Irons" at some point in your career--these are a fine point of entry. Mizuno has outdone Nike by making a hot faced iron that is the absolute hottest. They've outdone Adams--the people that resurrected the "Super Game Improvement" category with the original "Idea" irons, by giving you that type of forgiveness, but adding feel to the equation. They've outdone TaylorMade by managing to add distance and precision to a "Super Game Improvement" club. There's just not too many clubs that can match this one iron for iron, and score high in all the categories the way that this one does. Even the high prices Callaway's have been weighed in the balance and found wanting. This is easily the best all around "Super Game Improvement Iron" to come out this year. Here's why.

The new MX-1000 Hot Metal irons were developed with a super high COR and a massive MOI for AMAZING DISTANCE AND FORGIVENESS. The Hot Metal construction of the MX-1000 is created by plasma welding a thin, hot, ES230 maraging steel face to a high tech stainless steel body. This exotic construction delivers COR numbers that reach the legal limit, which results in incredible distance for your iron shots. Moreover, Hollow Technology construction with internal extreme MOI weighting creates a super low and deep COG, which delivers an easy, high and straight ball flight. The MX-1000 with Hot Metal technology is the longest and straightest iron we have ever developed, and it is sure to take your game to a whole new level.

Trailing edges help provide clean contact with the turf and internal Y-Tune weighting expands the sweet spot to common miss-hit areas of the clubface. There is little loss of distance or height from slight miss-hits and i found it was hard to hit a bad one off the deck. Short irons lacked a little precision, as you might expect, but the head profile inspired confidence throughout the set and will definitely appeal to those players who seek distance and forgiveness in a more compact head shape.

The Mizuno MX-1000s are not cheap – in fact a full set with graphite shafts will cost you almost four figures, but these clubs have all the bells and whistle - and this comes at a price.