If you're a fan of the brand, the good news is that the latest Mizuno MP-20 irons family, the 2019-2020 lineup respectively, are now available for purchase at major retail stores all across the United States. The MP-20 irons are basically the company's next-gen of MP irons, and they're built and designed to help golfers connect to the legendary Mizuno Feel, provided that thing even exists (don't throw rocks, we're just kidding). So, to make a long story short, there are no less than three new models in the MP-20 family: the MP-20 MMC, the MP-20 Blade & MP20 HMB – Hot Metal Blade.

If you're not familiar with recent history, the MP-20 series was created following the company's tradition of creating the ultimate set of golf-gear for the average Joe, and the Japanese managed to pull this off by employing state of the art design and technology, as well as their legendary attention to detail with all the 3 models. And since we're talking Japanese tradition, Mizuno boasted this on social media with their #LayersOfFeel hashtag, as the company built these babies as a homage to the old TN-87s, i.e. the new irons feature a copper underlay, old school style. Yes, all three of them, and that's as cool as it gets, right?

Moving along with our story, let's talk a little bit about that old “Mizuno feel”, which is currently part of the golf vernacular, being as close to the real thing as it gets, as it's basically ingrained in nerd golf-culture. However, one may ask how did the term come to be in the first place, how did it get here after all, what's it about and what does it mean for the next-gen Mizuno MP-20 irons? Here are the answers for your viewing pleasure, because that's we are here.

So, starting with the beginning of the story, the next series of MP irons also known as the 2019 Mizuno MP-20s are born from the quest of crafting the ultimate set of irons for every player (Mizuno's words exactly), and also born from tradition; and here the copper layer comes into play: during extensive testing, the company discovered that even in prototype blind tests with the Mizuno's staff players, the irons featuring a copper underlay were the best in terms of feel every time.

However, even Mizuno is not capable of quantifying exactly why this happens, but at the end of the day, after metallurgy analysis and all that scientific palaver, it's a fact that this type of irons are the best, so they conformed, since humans are the final element in the equation, i.e. they hit shots. Now, the star of the show in the latest 2019 Mizuno MP-20 irons is definitely the flagship MP-20, the blade respectively, described by Chris Voshall, Mizuno's Product Manager & Engineer as the ultimate tour blade.

The MP-20 blade is literally the successor of the legendary MP-18 and it's inspired design-wise from ancient history, i.e. models like the TN 87 and MP14. Speaking about flow in a blade, Mizuno engineers describe mass placement and center of gravity as vertical moment of inertia, and it's worth mentioning that each club is designed individually, hence you require for the CoG to shift through the set, in order to help with controlling launch and/or trajectory, while making sure spin is at the optimal level.

This sounds complicated but, in layman's terms, long irons in the MP-20 family are easier to hit (remember though, we're talking blades here), while short ones are easily flighted lower, with more spin and surreal control. And since we're talking about a big happy family, let's say a few words about the MP-20 MMC. MMC stands for multi-material construction, i.e. this is high tech stuff, as these babies come with titanium/tungsten inserts in the club's head, for more moment of inertia, more forgiveness, improved spin control and amazing overall performance.

What's impressive in the MP-20 MMC is the fact that Mizuno employs what it's described as zero chemical bond, i.e. the steel, tungsten and titanium parts in the MMC fit snug together with no epoxy, as they rely on the different shrinking rates of the various materials. Both titanium and tungsten shrink less than steel, hence as the steel cools down around the tungsten/titanium pieces, a solid/mechanical bond is created. This tech wizardry creates more control and forgiveness throughout the set, and after all's said and done, it translates into better engineering.