There’s a subset of golfers who get overly excited by a new Mizuno release. If golf manufacturers were football (soccer) teams, Mizuno are Arsenal: Perennially among the best but always the slight underdog, with a rabid fanbase who, while hoping for a bright future, fondly reminisce about former glories.
But at The Open this week at Royal Liverpool, not only have Mizuno unveiled some wedges that will appeal to the Mizuno fanboys, they’ve unveiled a driver that will get a whole different subset of golfers’ hearts pounding fast.
ST-G Driver
Driver head shapes have generally gotten flatter with shallower faces. Giant pancakes, if you will. And because nearly everyone is trying to put the centre of gravity low and rear, drivers are starting to share a similar shape at address.
But there’s a bunch of internet golf gearheads who obsess over deep-faced drivers. And I mean DEEP. From the fabled TaylorMade R7 SuperQuad 282 and R9 SuperDeep, the COBRA Speed Pro D and the Bridgestone J33, they were built to be teed high and let fly.
Nothing in recent times has appealed to the low-spin obsessed, other than maybe a couple of obscure Japanese models from J-Beam and Baldo.


