Equipment

WRX Spotlight: Vega Mizar Tour irons

Published

5 years ago

Oct 4, 2019

Japanese forged irons are famous for their quality and precision, but with the Vega Mizar line including the Mizar Tour irons, they can now be known just as much for their technology as their great forged feedback.

Vega Mizar Tour Forged irons

The Mizar Tour irons are part of the second generation of Vega’s Mizar line, which also includes the Mizar Plus, a performance-driven game-improvement set. Unlike the Plus version, which features an unsupported maraging steel face, the Mizar Tours are targeted at players looking for performance and feel, so the Tours have a constant thickness (3.5mm) soft carbon steel face for improved feel and shotmaking control.

VEGA Mizar tour hosel

The Mizar Tour irons are a multi-piece iron, but there is no way you would ever guess that based on their sound or feel—they’re amazingly soft and solid feeling. Indeed, they’re as solid as any single piece forged club I have ever played, and I have played quite a few. On that note, if you are looking for more of a blade-style club, Vega makes those too!

Vega Mizar tour short irons

The “secret sauce” of the Mizar Tour is in the way the weight distribution works—designers progressively shift the internal mass for ultimate shotmaking in the set. The progressive weight (as described below) positions a small cavity within the back of the club to precisely locate the CG. This little trick not only creates additional forgiveness but maximizes workability up and down the entire set where you want it.

Even with the shifting cavities, the CG (center of gravity) is still located right in the middle of each clubhead for precise performance. From a club design perspective, one of the often overlooked pieces of the iron design puzzle is the axis of rotation around the shaft and overall blade length. The closer the shaft is to the center of mass, the more face control a player has. Pair that with an iron that has very little offset, and you have the best of both worlds—ball speed and workability.

MP-18 7-iron vs. Mizar Tour 7-iron at address

The topline and total blade length is a smidge thicker and longer than a traditional “blade” iron, but that’s not the point—they should be, they’re not a blade! Vega already has fantastic classic looking blades in their iron lineup and the Mizar line is not designed to compete in that territory, they are a completely different animal and they 100 percent deliver on performance.

The amazing thing that the Mizar Tour irons do, that you’ll very rarely in a set of irons in the “Players Tech” category, is they have an extremely square topline matched with a square toe. This shape is usually reserved for only the smallest of blade and players clubs, but with the Mizar Tour, you get that true players look with technology to help when you might miss a little.

Specs & Availability

When it comes to lofts, undoubtedly yes, the Vega Mizar Tours are strong for a players iron, but the mass shifting and Higher CG (that actually creates spin) keeps the ball flight high and the ball hitting the desired trajectory windows all the way through the set. Even with the longer irons and a moderate clubhead speed, I have no issues elevating the long irons and getting good consistent yardage gapping in clubs.

Mizar Tour Iron Specs

The Mizar Tour irons I tested were shafted with Shimada Tour Mid 115 gram shafts, but like all Vega irons, they can be custom fit and built through any number of available retailers or directly from Vega Golf at Professional Golf Europe Distribution.

The suggested retail price is right around $1,500 USD.

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Whats in the Bag

Kevin Streelman WITB 2024 (April)

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22 mins ago

Apr 29, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

Kevin Streelman what’s in the bag accurate as of the Zurich Classic.

Driver: Titleist TSR3 (10 degrees, D1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Black 6 X

3-wood: Titleist TSR3 (15 degrees, A1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 8 X

Check out more in-hand photos of Kevin Streelman’s clubs here.

5-wood: Ping G (17.5 degrees)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD DI 10 X

Irons: Wilson Staff Model CB (4-9)
Shafts: Project X 6.5

Check out more in-hand photos of Kevin Streelman’s clubs here.

Wedges: Wilson Staff Model (48-08, 54-08), Titleist Vokey Design WedgeWorks (58-L @59)
Shafts: Project X 6.5 (48), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (54, 58)

Putter: Scotty Cameron TourType SSS TG6

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet

Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

Check out more in-hand photos of Kevin Streelman’s clubs here.

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Equipment

Choose Your Driver: Which 2012 driver was your favorite?

Published

54 mins ago

Apr 29, 2024

GolfWRX Staff

The year was 2012. Gangnam Style ruled supreme, its infectious beats and ludicrous horse-riding dance moves hypnotizing us with their stupidity. Everyone was talking about the Mayan calendar, convinced that the end of days was near. Superheroes soared on the silver screen, with the Avengers assembling in epic fashion. Katniss Everdeen survived The Hunger Games. And the memes! The memes abounded. Grumpy Cat triumphed. We kept calm and carried on.

In much the same way that automotive enthusiasts love classic cars, we at GolfWRX love taking a backward glance at some of the iconic designs of years past. Heck, we love taking iconic designs to the tee box in the present!

In that spirit, GolfWRX has been running a series inspired by arguably the greatest fighting game franchise of all time: Mortal Kombat. It’s not “choose your fighter” but rather “choose your driver.”

Check out some of the standout combatants of 2012 below.

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Nike VRS

Often harshly critiqued during its years releasing golf equipment (right, Phil Mickelson?), Nike’s tenure in the club-and-ball business gets a gloss of nostalgic varnish, with many of its iron and putter designs continuing to attract admirers. Among the company’s driver offerings, the 2012 VRS — or VR_S, if you will — drew high marks for its shaping and toned-down appearance. The multi-thickness, NexCOR face was no joke either.

Check out our coverage from 2012 here.

Callaway RAZR Fit

Callaway’s first foray into moveable weight technology (married with its OptiFit hosel) did not disappoint. With a carbon fiber crown, aerodynamic attention to detail, and variable and hyperbolic face technologies, this club foreshadowed the tech-loaded, “story in every surface” Callaway drivers of the present, AI-informed design age.

Check out our coverage from 2012 here.

Cleveland Classic 310

Truly a design that came out of left field. Cleveland said, “Give me a persimmon driver, but make it titanium…in 460cc.” Our 2012 reviewer, JokerUsn wrote, “I don’t need to elaborate on all the aesthetics of this club. You’ve seen tons of pics. You’ve all probably seen a bunch in the store and held them up close and gotten drool on them. From a playing perspective, the color is not distracting. It’s dark enough to stay unobtrusive in bright sunlight…Even my playing partners, who aren’t into clubs at all…commented on it saying it looks cool.” Long live!

Check out our coverage from 2012 here.

Titleist 910

While there’s no disputing Titleist’s “Titleist Speed” era of drivers perform better than its 2010s offerings, sentimentality abounds, and there was something classically Titleist about these clubs, right down to the alignment aid, and the look is somewhere between 983 times and the present TS age. Representing a resurgence after a disappointing stretch of offerings (907, 909), The 910D2 was a fairly broadly appealing driver with its classic look at address and classic Titleist face shape.

Check out our coverage from 2012 here.

TaylorMade RocketBallz

The white crown. The name. You either loved ‘em or you hated ‘em. TaylorMade’s 2012 offering from its RocketBallz Period boasted speed-enhancing aerodynamics and an Inverted Cone Technology in the club’s titanium face. Technology aside, it’s impossible to overstate what a departure from the norm a white-headed driver was in the world of golf equipment.

Check out our coverage from 2012 here.

Ping i20

Long a quietly assertive player in the driver space, Ping’s i20 was more broadly appealing than the G20, despite being a lower-launch, lower-spin club. Ping drivers didn’t always have looks that golfer’s considered traditional or classic, but the i20 driver bucked that trend. Combining the classic look with Ping’s engineering created a driver that better players really gravitated toward. The i20 offered players lower launch and lower spin for more penetrating ball flight while the rear 20g tungsten weights kept the head stable. Sound and feel were great also, being one of the more muted driver sounds Ping had created up to that time.

Check out our coverage from 2012 here.

GolfWRXers, let us know in the comments who “your fighter” is and why!

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Equipment

Coolest thing for sale in the GolfWRX Classifieds (4/29/24): Krank Formula Fire driver with AutoFlex SF505 shaft

Published

5 hours ago

Apr 29, 2024

Gianni Magliocco

At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals that all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.

It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.

Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, there is a listing for a Krank Formula fire driver with AutoFlex SF505 shaft.

From the seller: (@well01): “Krank formula fire 10.5 degree with AUtoflex SF505. $560 shipped.”

To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link: Krank Formula Fire driver with AutoFlex SF505 shaft

This is the most impressive current listing from the GolfWRX BST, and if you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum you can check them out here: GolfWRX BST Rules