20 Comments

1. 

   Faking-it-with-blades

   Jan 14, 2017 at 11:06 am

   Anyone notice a particular iconic Miura iron NOT featured in the glamour shot above? Is the Baby Blade literally “out of the picture” going forward?

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2. 

   rex235

   Jan 12, 2017 at 8:16 pm

   “Miura will remain an ultra premium brand…”
   When Miura makes a LH forged model of the 1957 Cavity Back they made for Jack Nicklaus…

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3. 

   ZJohnson

   Jan 12, 2017 at 4:21 pm

   Ok, now this makes sense. Cool Clubs did fulfillment for Miura this time last year as they started to sell their product in brick and mortar stores across the US. They built approx. 100 sets before having to stop so they didn’t fall behind with their own customers. Cool Clubs distributes for KBS now as it is much more time and cost effective for them. Unless True Spec hires two/three guys to do nothing but fulfill Miura’s orders, it’s going to be tough for them to keep up.

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     B. McKenna

     Jan 16, 2017 at 7:31 pm

     I watched this Hoyt guy try to bend a set of irons at Modern Golf and it was pretty bad. There are tons of industry guys with more knowledge than him. I’d give this relationship 6 months. If CC couldn’t pull it off with their facility, doubt Tour Spec will be able to handle it.

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4. 

   LD

   Jan 12, 2017 at 9:36 am

   Talk is cheap.

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5. 

   Tom C

   Jan 12, 2017 at 9:29 am

   Well, at least he’s an Irishman.

   Those new irons are already a clear indicator of a different direction. I appreciate the new Presidents words, but I just don’t see how it will happen. I’m sure there will be a clear view of things that a new owner would want to do to make money, and some of the current operations are cost prohibitive in terms of manufacturing, but some of those things are what make them such quality clubs. It’s contradictory to say that “we want to increase the brand recognition world wide”, but we aren’t going to make it a mass selling brand.

   The brand and it’s appearance are already as good as the clubs themselves, they just want to sell more and more of them, which I understand, as the market is becoming more and more competitive in this ultra-premium market. That being said, it’d be like saying Koenigsegg needs to market better because they sell 20 cars a year, when Ferrari sells 100. Koenigsegg’s are made in an old airplane hangar, and make the fastest cars in the world, and much like Miura, most people have no idea what they are, but for those that do, they’re all you’d ever want, and you wouldn’t want them to change.

   This is like Mercedes releasing the “Under $30k” renditions of their cars. Yeah, it’s nice. Yeah, it says Mercedes, but is it really a Mercedes? Meh.

   The only consolation I find in this is that the buy out isn’t from a direct competitor looking to buy out their market share (and avoid questioning over patents), so it’s not going to be an Adams-Taylormade ordeal.

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6. 

   Daniel

   Jan 12, 2017 at 9:26 am

   Wasn’t their PP-9005 Genesis clubs that GolfWRX just reviewed made in some other factory?

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     Zak Kozuchowski

     Jan 12, 2017 at 9:34 am

     The Genesis irons are made in Miura’s factory. That correction has been made in our review: http://www.golfwrx.com/419156/review-miura-neo-genesis-pp-9005-irons/

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     Adam

     Jan 12, 2017 at 9:35 am

     Absolutely correct:
     Production country “China”

     http://www.miuragiken.com/products/passing_point/pp-9005/index.html

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       Daniel

       Jan 12, 2017 at 9:53 am

       The sentence in that review article was too specific to have been a typo IMO. Something about the geometries being too hard for that facility.

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         Zak Kozuchowski

         Jan 12, 2017 at 10:54 am

         Thanks for the questions and comments, guys. This response is directly from Miura:

         “All Miura irons start from a single billet of soft carbon Japanese steel at the Miura Giken factory in Himeji. (this is what will always distinguish Miura irons) The next step of the process is working with our partner in Taiwan to complete the manufacturing process (the 455 Carpenter Steel face) The clubs are then shipped back to the Miura factory for final inspection before making their way to market.”

         “With reference to the Miura Giken website, technically the club is “finished in Taiwan (China) and thus you are not able to say Made it Japan, however, the Miura family is involved in the process, start to finish.”

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           gunmetal

           Jan 12, 2017 at 2:08 pm

           So the Japanese plant has lost capability to finish the heads? Or it’s just cheaper for them to ship them off to Taiwan/China, pay Taiwan/China labor rates, then ship them back to Japan or straight to True Spec or whoever than it is to just finish them in Japan?

           I know this is partly semantics, but when you play the “Made/Forged in Japan” card so blatantly sometimes the details can be a little muddy, lol.

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             Mark

             Jan 12, 2017 at 3:13 pm

             I do not think this is about cheaper labour rates. Taiwanese companies are, collectively, the world’s biggest producers of golf equipment. They own all of the major production sites in China and many of them have kept their specialist production units located in Taiwan (driver heads which require intricate casting tend to be produced there). I think Miura have simply chosen a high quality Taiwanese supplier to do what they are unable to do. If I remember correctly, Tom Wishon has used Taiwan based facilities for his advanced materials designs.

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7. 

   Rich

   Jan 12, 2017 at 8:55 am

   There is no way Miura will not fall victim (to what degree is yet to be seen) to compromise when there has been significant investment. Whoever put the money in, will expect to see money back and that will not happen with significant change.

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8. 

   Adam

   Jan 12, 2017 at 5:39 am

   So has TSG bought or invested in Miura Golf (which is the North American and International Sales arm of Miura) or have they bought the parent company Miura Giken from Japan who produces all the clubs for Miura and Miura Giken. So far in 2 articles it is still not clear!

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     Zak Kozuchowski

     Jan 12, 2017 at 7:34 am

     Adam,

     Miura offers slightly different products under the names Miura and Miura-Giken (Japan), but all products are designed and manufactured under one roof. The deal encompasses all of Miura.

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       S Hitty

       Jan 12, 2017 at 12:29 pm

       I don’t get why such information is so hard to obtain from their own website and why do you have to explain it all in the comments and not in the articles themselves.

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         Zak Kozuchowski

         Jan 12, 2017 at 12:40 pm

         We have added the detail to the body of the Genesis review for all future readers to understand and discuss.

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9. 

   Tom

   Jan 11, 2017 at 8:58 pm

   +1

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10. 

    Chunkiebuck

    Jan 11, 2017 at 8:36 pm

    Hey, are those rear tail lights or turn signals on the back? I’m guessing they flash left or right depending on ball flight direction. You know, in case you missed the flight of your ball, you can
    take a quick peek at the back of these clubs for confirmation.

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