2012 Tour Workshop Blog

Another manic week on the workshop, this time at the Dutch Open at Hilversum!

We’ve just received delivery of our Tour Limited T4 raw black wedges and they’re proving rather popular. Plenty of grinding too from Koji-san, particularly on the more lofted options to increase the versatility for those with the talent required!

We’ve been building a load more JPX825 fairways and hybrids and will be working with a few guys on some fine tuning next week at the Italian Open.

We made a set with the largest grips we’ve fitting since Faldo was with us (5 tapes under a midsize), and we also re-gripped and adjusted a set of 64s for the 2003 USPGA Champion who’s been playing a bit in Europe this year (and not contracted to Mizuno, it should be stated!)

The workshop is off to Turin now so a couple of days at home for us before we start again on Monday.

Loving the new jpx 825 range just a quick question would you be able to tell me what the name is of the blue shaft in the 3 woods in the pictures 825 sole and 825 face

Many thanks

Kip

Kip wrote:

Loving the new jpx 825 range just a quick question would you be able to tell me what the name is of the blue shaft in the 3 woods in the pictures 825 sole and 825 face

Many thanks

Kip

Hi Kip

The bright blue shaft was a Graphite Design BB. The darker blue (navy) ones would be Project X.

UTY

Thanks UBTY will these shaft be available as a upgrade when the woods are released for sale but if not still looks like him gonna have some new woods in the bag

Those wedges look sweet in the raw black finish!

Kip wrote:

Thanks UBTY will these shaft be available as a upgrade when the woods are released for sale but if not still looks like him gonna have some new woods in the bag

These woods are all shot on the tour van when, as you'd imagine, they can get hold of any shaft they want.

It looks as if there's 3 options for us mere mortals...
Orochi blue (stock)
Orochi red
Project X

http://golf.mizunoeurope.com/custom/custom-specs.php

unbeatenthisyear wrote:

Another manic week on the workshop, this time at the Dutch Open at Hilversum!

We’ve just received delivery of our Tour Limited T4 raw black wedges and they’re proving rather popular. Plenty of grinding too from Koji-san, particularly on the more lofted options to increase the versatility for those with the talent required!

We’ve been building a load more JPX825 fairways and hybrids and will be working with a few guys on some fine tuning next week at the Italian Open.

We made a set with the largest grips we’ve fitting since Faldo was with us (5 tapes under a midsize), and we also re-gripped and adjusted a set of 64s for the 2003 USPGA Champion who’s been playing a bit in Europe this year (and not contracted to Mizuno, it should be stated!)

The workshop is off to Turin now so a couple of days at home for us before we start again on Monday.

unbeatenthisyear

The black wedges look really cool and would look even better in my bag. Is it ok if I PM you my home address for delivery of 3 of them

Assassin wrote:

unbeatenthisyear wrote:

Another manic week on the workshop, this time at the Dutch Open at Hilversum!

We’ve just received delivery of our Tour Limited T4 raw black wedges and they’re proving rather popular. Plenty of grinding too from Koji-san, particularly on the more lofted options to increase the versatility for those with the talent required!

We’ve been building a load more JPX825 fairways and hybrids and will be working with a few guys on some fine tuning next week at the Italian Open.

We made a set with the largest grips we’ve fitting since Faldo was with us (5 tapes under a midsize), and we also re-gripped and adjusted a set of 64s for the 2003 USPGA Champion who’s been playing a bit in Europe this year (and not contracted to Mizuno, it should be stated!)

The workshop is off to Turin now so a couple of days at home for us before we start again on Monday.

unbeatenthisyear

The black wedges look really cool and would look even better in my bag. Is it ok if I PM you my home address for delivery of 3 of them

Me too!!

Deemac wrote:

Assassin wrote:

unbeatenthisyear wrote:

Another manic week on the workshop, this time at the Dutch Open at Hilversum!

We’ve just received delivery of our Tour Limited T4 raw black wedges and they’re proving rather popular. Plenty of grinding too from Koji-san, particularly on the more lofted options to increase the versatility for those with the talent required!

We’ve been building a load more JPX825 fairways and hybrids and will be working with a few guys on some fine tuning next week at the Italian Open.

We made a set with the largest grips we’ve fitting since Faldo was with us (5 tapes under a midsize), and we also re-gripped and adjusted a set of 64s for the 2003 USPGA Champion who’s been playing a bit in Europe this year (and not contracted to Mizuno, it should be stated!)

The workshop is off to Turin now so a couple of days at home for us before we start again on Monday.

unbeatenthisyear

The black wedges look really cool and would look even better in my bag. Is it ok if I PM you my home address for delivery of 3 of them

Me too!!

It would seem our polite requests have not been granted. Well, if you dont ask you dont get

Hi all

Apologies for not posting for a while. The Italian Open was a busy week, but one of those without too many exciting things to report!

The Ryder Cup gave us a couple of days off as our American colleagues were covering that one. I did watch every minute of it and what a finish!

Hence, there were a few tired and hung-over people at St Andrews when we arrived on Monday for the Dunhill Links Championship. The Dunvegan was apparently “rocking” on Sunday night – what a great place that would have been to watch it!

Anyway, it was a short week for us at St Andrews as the workshop left last night to get down to Vilamoura for the Portuguese Masters next week. St Andrews is a magic place though and we love that event so it's a shame we weren't there for longer. We had a great site on the range and it’s always a good week for a bit of celeb-spotting!

Inside the workshop we had quite a lot to fit into our 2 and a bit days – quite a bit of wedge sole grinding for the tight links turf conditions and a few more H4 2 irons for the weather conditions. On top of that Marcel Siem and Chris Wood put in orders for new sets of MP-69s as their current ones are starting to wear following a pretty full year of playing and practising.

Anton Haig is back on the scene after a break and is aiming very much to get his game back on track after a couple of years out. We did some work with him at the PGA in May and he’s been using 69s since then. We made him another set, some T4 wedges and a few MP and JPX woods and hybrids to test. From his first round today it looks like things are working very well so it’ll be interesting to see how the week goes for him – there aren’t many players with more natural ability than Anton!

Electric golf clubs are rare, especially ones that come with a charger, but we have a couple on the workshop now – yes, we received our new Shaft Optimisers!

We did find a few minutes to visit the Golf Museum which is always fascinating – I love looking at the really old clubs from a century or 2 ago! And, as it was Koji-san’s first visit to St Andrews I obviously had to give him a tour of some of the more famous golf shops and bars around the town! The Swilken Bridge was another photo opportunity and we timed it perfectly to bump into some impressive silverware!