Golf club makers fell in love with titanium because it’s stronger and lighter than steel. That means designers can make thinner driver faces, which creates discretionary weight that can be repositioned in other areas to improve performance.
But with the release of the Mizuno MP-59 Iron Set
, Mizuno uses titanium for a completely different purpose—forgiveness.
While the MP-59 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 Iron Set
“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 Iron Set has very little offset and a thin topline because that’s what better players demand.
In fact, the heads of the Mizuno MP-59 Iron Set
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 MP-59 we focused the titanium right in the middle.” That should make them perform better on mis-hits than their predecessors, he said.
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- Mizuno MP-59
- The MP-59, the next evolution of our award winning Ti Muscle Technology, delivers full cavity forgiveness in a player’s half cavity design. During the elaborate Grain Flow Forging process, the pure Titanium material is forged into the muscle of the ゴルフクラブ 5% larger Sweet Area compared to the MP-58, the iron that debuted Ti Muscle Technology while taking home "Editor’s Choice" in Golf Digest’s 2010 Hot List. The lightweight characteristics of the pure Titanium allow for the ideal amount of thickness behind the impact area to deliver consistent solid feel while simultaneously providing a dramatic increase in perimeter weighting for enhanced playability. To date, only Mizuno’s patented Grain Flow Forging process can deliver this technological advancement that produces these amazing gains in forgiveness, all within a compact, traditional head shape.
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