Mizuno MX-300 Irons review


The Mizuno MX-300 irons do their job very well. It provides playability, enough forgiveness for a proficient but not stellar iron player and a feel to die for. Few cavity backed irons have that level of purity in the strike and even fewer make you want to go and buy another basket of balls and carry on hitting them but that’s what I did.

We were very impressed with the Mizuno MX-200 irons Mizuno considering them to be the best game improvement irons that Mizuno have produced. So we were excited to hear about the new MX 300 which Mizuno say are ideal for those players looking for the reassurance of the MX series combined with the workability of the MP series. Mizuno have placed a lot of faith in the MX-300 and it is easy to see why. They have managed to successfully combine the forgiveness of the MX series with the forged feel and more compact head of the MP series. On the course the feel was very good for what is a mid handicappers iron and the solid power bar was particularly good in the short irons. We were not so keen on the large cavity on the longer irons but if you can put that out of your mind the performance of the longer irons was also very good. In terms of forgiveness there was not much between the cheap Mizuno MX 300 and MP-58s, so check them both out as they have different looks with very similar performance.

In the 3 to 7 irons a milled pocket cavity redistributes 12 grams of weight lower in the club head to provide a high, penetrating launch angle. The cavity is 1mm larger in the 3 to 5 irons and then decreases in the 6 and 7 irons. In the 8 to pitching wedge the cavity is covered up and the solid power bar design gives the shorter irons much greater workability and feel.Over the last couple of years they have been releasing new models at a bewildering pace and golfers have never had such a wide range to choose from. As a basic rule of thumb, Mizuno entitles their classically designed mid to low-handicap clubs the MP irons and the MX series for mid to high handicappers.

It’s a competitive market in the low-mid handicap zone but if you fall into that category than the MX-300 is a must try