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Forum Thread of the Day: “Best Mizuno blades?”
Today’s Forum Thread of the Day comes from hypergolf, who asks fellow GolfWRX members for their view on which Mizuno blades are the best on the market. The MP4’s may currently be edging it, but our members are keen on a variety of different options from Mizuno.
Here are a few posts from the thread, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.
- Warrick: “4’s feel. 5’s forgiveness. 18’s looks. I have not played older Mizzy blades.”
- Sir edward of putternut: “MP14 and MP29 are the boobs. MP5 is my gamer. Mp33 is fantastic as well. I like them more than the MP4.”
- Andyman234: “I love my MP18 MMCs. I would highly recommend hitting them first though. Maybe you can find them new somewhere and demo them before purchasing them used.”
- dark : “Picked up a set of MP-68s recently with ProjectX 5.5 shafts. So good, they kicked my MP-14s to the curb”
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“We told the Ping guys to put … ‘Big Fridge’ on it, and I think maybe some bad cell service or something, and they thought I said ‘fudge,’ so they put fudge on it.”
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TW11
Nov 9, 2020 at 10:38 am
I think the MP5’s are the best looking they have produced, of even maybe any blade ever! Great feel and less intimidating that the razor thin blades
David Cox
Jul 22, 2019 at 10:07 am
The MP4s are the best – the best looking, the most forgiving, the best feeling. However I tried the JPX Tour and found the 5 iron went better so put them in my bag, but did not get rid of the MPs. I’m a mid handicapper and I’m fed up with being told you must use a clunky cavity back with its attendant nasty feel. The modern blade, at least as realised by Mizuno, is not hard to hit and feels good most of the time and sometimes sublime. By the way the JPX Tour has an MP feel to it. I have Nippon NS Pro R shafts which are light in both sets.
DaveJ
Jan 9, 2019 at 9:24 am
IMO, the MP33s are the benchmark by which all blades should be measured. They are about as close to a pure blade experience as you can get. They feel great, flight effortlessly, and can be worked left or right as much as your skill allows. I sadly had to stop playing mine as I got older and started getting arthritis in my hands and wrists. I think the 2 iron was the most fun club to hit of the set. Pure one off the tee and it fell like you were swinging a hammer at a marshmallow.
The MP32s are my favorite “modern” blades. I would be gaming them if I were to magically go back to my early 20s.
Tommy Roberts
Jan 9, 2019 at 10:35 pm
Faldo’s TP 19’s cannot be beaten. Well maybe, but they are incredible blades. Have a completely new redone set in case anyone wants them. X100’s, never hit, in wooden case, I cannot even open. Will take 5 min to do so !
koober
Jan 7, 2019 at 5:36 pm
My MP-60’s are over a decade old now, but I always go back to them. I know they’re not strictly blades, but these muscle-backs are so pure. Also have the stock R300 shafts in them. If anything, I’ll probably just upgrade the shafts. Heads are still fantastic. (No rock balls.)
chad
Jan 7, 2019 at 1:45 pm
EVERYONE knows the mp32s were the best irons they ever made
William Davis
Jan 7, 2019 at 12:14 pm
TP9 – bought perhaps last set in UK back in ?. Take out now and again and still pleasing. MP30 going strong. Went to JPX850 but no great improvement.
Jack Nash
Jan 7, 2019 at 12:12 pm
Still to me some of the most beautiful irons produced.
Jack Baker
Jan 6, 2019 at 9:30 pm
Jpx 900 are the best I have played but I have hit a bunch of them. Silver Cup blades were the absolute softest ever, sweet.
Brad
Jan 6, 2019 at 8:52 pm
MP-68s and MP-5s have been the best Mizuno blades I’ve used. MP-18s are very nice as well, but I felt the MP-5s were still better in the feel and forgiveness categories.
ACTUAL FACTS
Jan 6, 2019 at 5:41 pm
All of Mizuno’s blade models over the last two and a half decades have been sauce! I could bag the MP-14s just as quickly as my current irons. TN87, MP9, MP11, MP14, MP29, MP33, MP37, MP68, MP4, MP5, MP18…they’re all great!!!
s
Jan 14, 2019 at 8:09 pm
Couldnt agree more. i would pick MP-14 first too. Personally not a huge fan of those pseudo cavities and the new run bird(?) logo though…
The dude
Jan 5, 2019 at 9:39 pm
MP 11……if yer good enough……TN 87 2nd….
smz
Jan 4, 2019 at 8:19 pm
The magic is in the metallurgy and grain flow forging method that forges the complete clubhead, hosel included…. no ‘spin welding’ the hosel to the blade like miura foists on gullible golfers.
Forged MB
Jan 7, 2019 at 12:11 pm
He ain’t lying! ????
37
Jan 4, 2019 at 4:55 pm
37
Not as rounded as the 33, a bit sharper and boxier and a tad more sexier
TigerFan91
Jan 4, 2019 at 3:08 pm
I like my MP69s. They don’t even have a fancy shaft on them…just your standard X100s. They’re not that intimidating at address and they feel great.
toyzrx
Jan 4, 2019 at 7:31 pm
Yes I agree. Just the stock DGS300 in them and they are as good as any new ones on the market.
Mick
Jun 30, 2019 at 6:19 pm
MP69 are great irons. Still using them, just great, one of Mizunos best ever.
Cleve Dixon
Jul 23, 2020 at 4:40 pm
I agree try different irons but always come back 69s. Beautiful looking blade I’m going back and forth on upgrading to MP 20 muscle backs ..