Mizuno MP-59 Irons

Say hello to the new Mizuno MP-59 Irons, the next generation of the company's award winning Ti Muscle Technology. The Mizuno MP-59 Irons are designed for the better player (between a 2-13 handicaps) but don't be fooled by the rating. I had the chance to hit the Mizuno MP-59 Irons and thoroughly enjoyed my experience. 

While the Mizuno MP-59 Irons is made from steel, 12 grams of titanium are forged into a pocket behind the face of each club. (It's the slightly darker material in the photo above.) Mizuno says the titanium allows the clubs to maintain the ideal amount of thickness behind the impact area for solid feel while automatically redistributing the weight to the heel, toe and sole of the Mizuno MP-59 Irons.

"The more you push the weight out to the perimeter and the thinner you make it in the middle, there's a trade-off with feel," says David Llewellyn, research and development manager for Mizuno USA. "But by using a lower density material we can maintain thickness here and build in a little bit of forgiveness."

Llewellyn says that like all the other MP irons, the Mizuno MP-59 Irons have very little offset and a thin top line because that's what better players demand.

In fact, the heads of the Mizuno MP-59 Irons are slightly smaller than last season's MP-58, the first irons released with this feature that Mizuno calls Ti Muscle. Yet Mizuno claims the clubs have a sweet spot that is 5 percent larger.

The MP-58 has a titanium piece that is fairly uniform along the back," says Llewellyn. "On the Mizuno MP-59 Irons we focused the titanium right in the middle." That should make them perform better on mis-hits than their predecessors, he said.

You're lucky I agreed in advance with Mizuno to give the Mizuno MP-59 Irons away because the clubs are exactly what I'm looking for in my next set of irons. First and foremost, they feel good and even though they are rated for the better player, you don't have to be a PGA Tour player to hit them. Also (and almost equally important), I like the way they look. Call me vain, but one of the first things I do when I pick up a club off of the rack is to judge the appearance and the Mizuno MP-59 Irons put almost every other club to shame.

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