Review: Mizuno JPX-825 Pro irons
Is the 825 an improvement on the 800?
MIZUNO JPX-825 Pro, a game-improvement Grain Flow Forged iron, pushes the design limits to achieve greater forgiveness and feel.
The 4- to 7-irons have been designed with a deep CNC-milled undercut pocket cavity that provides 17 grams of discretionary weight used for extreme toe-heel weighting. Another positive is that you can't see the cavity at address. It has the look of a blade and I like that.
From 8-iron to SW, there's a full cavity design to help strike down through the ball with a more penetrating and workable ball flight.
On first look, this baby has the look of a player iron, but performance of game improvement. I love the classy, satin-like finish and fantastic Grain Flow Forged feel. Hardly surprising for a company that keeps telling us 'nothing feels like a Mizuno'.
These irons feel slightly more muted than the JPX-800 Pro on mishits, but still provide great feedback at impact. If you flush one, you know it. Overall feel is excellent and uniform throughout the set.
The scoring irons I mentioned previously have thick enough toplines but they're certainly much thinner toplines than the previous JPX 800 line. I also like the versatile triple-cut sole design.
The irons feel great in the wind and on the whole, very easy to control and work both ways.
After practising on the range with the JPX-825 Pros, I can safely say these perform every bit as well as the 800 Pro model that I used for the best part of two years.
You can work them easily, or just play your natural shot. I also found some of the longer irons were very hot off the face.
If there's one criticism of these irons it's that there's good forgiveness with the short irons but not as much forgiveness with the longer ones - and it's that reason alone that I suggest these irons should be used in the capable hands of a single-figure capper.
Verdict
A definite enhancement on the JPX-800 Pros, which had been in my bag for a good two years up until this season.
I enjoyed solid, soft and deadly accurate weapons. Good spin control with the short clubs and firey off the face with the longer ones.
While Mizuno suggests the recommended handicap range for this range is between six and 18, I believe they lie much closer to the better player category.
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