Gear: Mizuno JPX 925 Fli-Hi hybrids
Price: $150 each with UST Mamiya Recoil Dart ESX shaft and Lamkin UT+ grip
Specs: 17-4 stainless steel face with 431 stainless steel body and internal tungsten weight. Available in 19-, 22-, 25-, and 28-degree versions.
Available: Sept. 5 (pre-order), Sept. 19 (in stores)
Who It’s For: Golfers who want more height, distance, and consistency than they get from long irons.
What You Should Know: Mizuno’s updated Fli-Hi hybrids have a low profile and draw bias to help recreational golfers enhance their consistency and hit straighter shots than they can with long irons.
The Deep Dive: While pros make it look easy, most recreational golfers struggle to hit a high draw with long irons. Hybrids, thanks to their lower center of gravity and larger size, make solid contact and consistency easier to achieve for many players. With the release of its new JPX 925 Fli-Hi hybrids, Mizuno aims to bring that elusive shot, the high draw, to players who routinely shoot in the 80s and 90s.
The JPX 925 Fli-Hi hybrids are available in lofts designed to replace a golfer’s 3-, 4-, 5-, or 6-iron. They feature a wider profile in the stronger-lofted clubs, with the width decreasing as lofts increase. For example, the 19-degree, 3-iron replacement is a fairway wood-style hybrid and wider than the 28-degree version that could replace a 6-iron.
All JPX 925 Fli-Hi hybrids have a matte-black crown that is free of visual distractions, along with a low-profile design that is meant to inspire confidence.
These hybrids feature a 17-4 stainless steel face attached to a 431 stainless steel body. Internal mass placed in the back on the heel side is meant to help the faces close more easily during the downswing. That should result in squaring the face more consistently, so shots should fly straighter or be inclined to have a draw shape.
The accordion-style Wave Sole behind the leading edge is designed to compress at the moment of impact and lower the sweet spot, so thin-struck shots should retain more ball speed.
Mizuno’s designers rounded the leading edge and added extra bounce, making the JPX 925 Fli-Hi hybrids more adept at working through the turf, especially when golfers have a steep angle of attack or when conditions are soft.
While there isn’t an adjustable hosel on the JPX 925 Fli-Hi, the 17-4 stainless steel hosel is bendable, allowing custom fitters to adjust the lofts and help golfers fill distance gaps.
Finally, the price of the Mizuno JPX 925 Fli-Hi hybrids is $150, which is the same price as each of the new JPX 925 Hot Metal, Hot Metal Pro and Hot Metal HL irons. So, working with a custom fitter, golfers can mix and match the clubs to create their ideally blended sets without increasing the price.
Below are several close-up images of the new Mizuno JPX 925 hybrids.