Luke Donald joins movement to MP-5 irons

Luke Donald has privately told Mizuno that the new MP-5’s will be going into his bag for future tour events. After recent testing Donald joins fellow Mizuno players Chris Wood, Manasori Kobayshi and Magnus A Carlsson in making the switch. Carlsson announced his change over the same weekend via his Twitter feed.

Luke Donald tweeted this pic from the range before choosing his new MP-5’s.

Chris Wood was the first of Mizuno’s tour players to switch to the MP-5’s

This is the first time since the MP-32 that the majority of Mizuno ‘s players have gravitated to the same model.  Luke Donald has moved from the more forgiving Ti Muscle MP-15, while Chris Wood has moved from the traditional MP-4 muscleback.  Mizuno’s European Tour Manager Alex Thorne believes that channel back design gives an ideal balance of shotmaking precision and off centre stability that is appealing to players from both ends of the tour spectrum.

“Trajectory and distance control is probably the top requirement for the strategic players like Luke Donald and Woody,” Alex Thorne, European Tour Manager.

“When we can build that into an iron with just a little more off centre forgiveness like the MP-5, that’s the ideal. The Channelback idea means that those marginal miss-hits lose a yard, rather than 2. Over a tournament, those 2 or 3 miss-hits can make a massive difference to the outcome. These players are working to very tight margins.”

“Over recent seasons our players have been spread over 2 or 3 different models – this is the first time for a while that they’ve all gravitated to the same. The last time an iron was this universally accepted on tour was the MP-32.  Again it’s an iron that isn’t quite a pure blade or a full muscle back – it sits somewhere between those two worlds.”

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Magnus A Carlsson (left) recently tweeted out his switch, while Manasori Kobayashi switched earlier in 2015.