I took the wedges down to the fantastic Prestbury Golf Club for 18 holes of testing, giving myself the opportunity to test them on the variety of different slopes, lies and stances that you'd encounter during any normal round of golf. Kyle Hammond, PGA Tour Technician The Test The updated T20 has been a long time in coming - but with a few extra design tweaks we learned over the last year will finally bring all that wedge goodness back to the public. The T20 are Grain Flow Forged from carbon steel in their factory in Japan for that famous 'Nothing Feels Like A Mizuno' touch and feel.įinally, Mizuno has used something called 'spin weighting', whereby more weight has been focused higher up in the clubhead to raise the centre of gravity and produce more spin and more forgiveness on off-centre strikes. Mizuno are renowned for their forging process and this is no different with the wedges. These go alongside the existing CNC Milled Grooves, which vary in depth and width between lofts for optimum performance depending on shot length. To do this they have basically etched a series of vertical grooves to help force moisture off the face, which should maintain spin rates. The R&D team at Mizuno wanted to focus on providing consistency with these new wedges and so the idea of the grooves is that they can control spin rates better in different conditions, for example when it is very wet. The biggest new innovation for 2019 is the Hydroflow Micro Grooves. The S range, last seen with the S18 Wedge, is more rounded and so more suitably accompanies the JPX range, which leans towards game-improvement. The 'T' in T20 actually stands for teardrop and accurately describes the shape of the clubhead, blending itself nicely with the MP20 iron range. This gives Mizuno fans the chance to completely update this end of the bag with all of the latest gear. The T20 wedge also signals a bit of a reorganisation by Mizuno with their release pattern, as these 'better player' wedges have been released alongside the corresponding MP product range rather than a year apart. This year the brand has brought back the T-Series wedge for the first time since 2016, much to the relief of the likes of Luke Donald and Eddie Pepperell who had been stuck with previous models in favour of the more recent S18. Mizuno has had an excellent year so far thanks to the release of the MP-20 Iron range which went down very well with my colleague Sophie, along with more success in the professional game thanks to a certain un-contracted star, Brooks Koepka, continuing to rack up majors.
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