driver MP 630 fast track 9.5 s flex + W3 15 + H3 17

Kenmerken

Conditie: Gebruikt

Type: Club

Merk: Mizuno

Beschrijving

Alle drie in goede conditie.
Shafts zijn de stiff shafts van Fubuki.
Allemaal in goede conditie.

De driver en houten 3 zijn  samen EUR 225,-

Eventueel met nieuwe grips te plaatsen voor EUR 8,- per stuk. In iedere gewenste dikte.
Daarna zijn na plaatsing nieuwe grips direct bespeelbaar

Er zijn veel reviews te vinden over deze met goud bekroonde clubs.
O.a. golf digest.

Mijn afstanden met deze clubs:

              MAX              GEM              MIN
Driver    275 meter       235               210
W3        230 meter       210               190
H3         205 meter       190               175

Oa Chris Wood heeft twee seizoenen met deze driver en W3 gespeeld.

De Driver is qua balvlucht verstelbaar. Hoger, Lager, meer naar links of rechts.
Boekje zit erbij. 

When you say the name "Mizuno" to the typical golfer, they first think of one thing - forged irons, often a muscleback or blade type material.
If this typical golfer kept thinking, they might never arrive at "drivers," let alone drivers with adjustable weights. As popular as Mizuno is for their irons, they're at least as unpopular for their hybrids, fairway woods, and drivers.
Unfortunately, their stellar irons overshadow an impressive woods/metals lineup, the best of which may very well be the MP-630 Fast Track driver. Read on as we shed a little light on Mizuno's under-appreciated driver.

Design and Technology
Mizuno first introduced adjustable weight technology in their MP-600 driver (reviewed here), and the technology has come a long way since the MP-600's release.
While the MP-600 offered 15 weight configurations, the MP-630 triples that number and allows for 45 different weight configurations. The driver contains two eight-gram weights in a "track" - the weights can be loosened with the included screw, slid to their desired position, and tightened in place. Unlike TaylorMade's drivers, you can't lose the weights and you can't accidentally goof up the swingweight.
Mizuno MP-630 Fast Track Collage
Practically, 45 positions all but guarantee the player will be able to choose a ball flight (both vertically and horizontally) that suits the player. Weight moved left and right in the driver will alter the ball flight laterally, while weight moved towards the face or towards the back of the driver will affect spin and launch angle.
The original Fast Track design was a breakthrough in adjustable technology, as it became the fastest and easiest way to effectively manipulate weight in order to tune your ball flight. Now, this next generation of Fast Track technology in the MP-630 Fast Track once again takes trajectory tuning to a whole new level. Within the 45 possible ball flight settings, players can not only control their ball from left to right, but the weights can now also be adjusted to control up-down trajectory. Simply put, Fast Track is the ultimate technology for unsurpassed ball control off the tee box.
DICK LYONS, VP AND GENERAL MANAGER, MIZUNO
The MP-630 Fast Track driver features a traditional, pear-shaped appearance at setup. The face is created using Mizuno's proprietary "Hot Metal technology" and is composed of Ti-9 Titanium with CNC CORTECH technology. As with every driver on the market today, Mizuno claims this allows for a larger sweet spot for longer distance. Mizuno is also quick to note that engineers put tremendous effort into fine-tuning the sound and feel.
Esthetics
I'm sure you've heard the phrase "business in the front, party in the back" to describe that 80s atrocity: the mullet.
Mizuno MP-630 Fast Track Driver Address
The Mizuno MP-630 Fast Track driver is clean and classic looking at address.
Though I'm sure the Mizuno folks won't care for the analogy, the MP-630 Fast Track driver pulls off a similar feat. At address, the club looks as classic as it gets. Flip it over and look at the sole and you'll find an impressive amount of technology. Mizuno is perhaps one of the more traditional golf companies out there, and they've managed to stuff a good bit of tech into a classic package: "tradition on the top, technology on the bottom."
At address, the black semi-glittery pear-shaped crown is complimented by an austere, short hosel and a clean, silver clubface that, unlike many modern drivers, features scoreline grooves what span the entire width of the clubface. The clubhead, at setup, is plainer than the persimmon drivers of yester-year. Heck, there's not even an alignment aid on the crown! I like it!
Mizuno MP-630 Fast Track Driver Back
From the bak the "cat's eye" look of the club looks apparent - it has a rounded crown and sole with pointed edges.
Flip the club over and things get busy in a hurry. The bottom features a blend of shades of silver, black, and red and white to show off the Fast Track system. Two weights with a hex key screw are positioned in two of the positions numbered "1" to "10" with white letters. The titanium from the face wraps around to the sole and back towards the inner part of the "U" formed by the Fast Track system. It's emblazoned with "MP 630" and the Mizuno name. The markings are completed by, from heel to toe around the back edge, the loft in white, the letters "MP" in red, and "Fast Track" in white with the Mizuno logo on the toe.
The clubface is a bit of a throwback look. In the day and age of taller faces, or simply bigger faces, the MP-630 has what appears to be a good bit less clubface area than others. I'd describe the shape as a "cat's eye" look, with pronounced curve from the heel to the toe both along the top and bottom lines of the club. The club's smaller looking clubface simply doesn't make it appear to be very forgiving.
Mizuno MP-630 Fast Track Driver Cat's Eye
You'll notice that the curve along the lower edge of the face is quite pronounced.
The stock Fubuki shaft is silver, black, red, and white and nicely carries on the color scheme. The bottom of the shaft - everything you'll see at setup - is white and will not distract you from putting a good swing on the ball.
Performance
I may be guilty of some bias against Mizuno's drivers, but a few swings with the MP-630 Fast Track have convinced me otherwise. It didn't take long before I started referring to this thing as "my little cannon" and I've never had a better year driving the golf ball.
Though the clubface appears smaller than many other drivers (it probably is smaller), I never had trouble missing the clubface enough that I questioned the driver's forgiveness. If you find yourself hitting the very edges of drivers with larger clubfaces than this, you'll want to avoid this driver as you might literally top a few off the toe or heel. On the other hand, if you regularly hit the ball within a full inch of your driver's sweet spot, the clubface area on the MP-630 is nothing to worry about: it's more than large enough for all but the worst types of swings.
I tested the MP-630 with the stock shaft in an X flex and a driver head with 10.5° loft. Previous drivers were all heavier shafts (70 grams or so), stiff flex, and 9.5 degrees of loft. The club suits me and the combination of more loft with a stiffer shaft lets me feel that I can really attack the golf ball when I need to.
Mizuno MP-630 Fast Track Driver Headcover
The headcover - a sock-and-nylon variety - works well, and the wrench (seen below) is hidden in the little pocket so it's always handy, unlike some other wrenches
The first thing I noticed when hitting the MP-630 was the sound it makes. It's been a long time since I've swatted balata with persimmon, but the noise harkens back to that. In modern day equivalents, it sounds like the perfect combination of a carbon composite material and a titanium or even steel head. The sound is a bright yet heavy "thump" that sounds more like an MLB player swatting a home run than the loud, tinny, hollow noises commonly made by drivers these days. I'm having a hard time thinking of a driver that sounded better, and may very well have to go back to balata and persimmon to start building that list!
The ball flight with this driver is incredibly consistent across the face. I was not punished severely for missing high or low, towards the toe or heel. The driver seems to have a fair amount of bulge and roll, which likely helps here. Distance on mis-hits was perhaps a bit more than you'd see on a super-MOI type driver, but distance loss was less than with some other "player's drivers" I've hit, too. I play a push draw primarily, and shots hit on the toe would simply push more and draw a bit more and shots hit on the heel would start straighter and draw less. Likewise for shots hit high or low on the face - very little would change about the height of the ball.
Distance? The MP-630 is no longer than any other driver out there these days, but it's no shorter either. Driver technology has pretty much maxed out distance across the world of golf, so the best you can do is get fit and try to get to your ideal launch conditions to maximize distance. The MP-630's Fast Track system will help you to do just that.
And how much, specifically, can the Fast Track system do? 45 positions sounds like a lot, and it is. It's too many to discuss, so I'll talk about the extremes and averages: adjustable weight all the way towards the face, weight all the way towards the back of the club, and weight neutral or weight all in the heel, balanced, or all towards the toe.
Mizuno MP-630 Fast Track Driver Weights
The ten positions and the two eight-gram weights are easily seen in this image.
I play about as neutral a position as you can get: weights are in the 3 and 8 positions - right in the middle both front-to-back and heel-to-toe. I typically carry the ball about 265 to 270 yards with a draw that starts 10 yards right of the target and curves back.
With the weights positioned in the 1/10 positions as far forwards towards the face as possible, the ball flight was noticeably lower and had several hundred less RPM. If I played regularly on firm fairways or in windy conditions I might be tempted to push the weights there - or if I'd gotten a stiff shaft instead of the X flex I have. Trajectory and spin was likewise affected with the weight back in the 5/6 positions.
The heel/toe positions affected things a similar amount. My 10-yard draw turned into perhaps a 13-yard draw with the weight all in the heel and a 7-yard draw with the weight in the toe. Others will undoubtedly be affected more here - I think that a driver's side-to-side weight distribution has less effect on balls hit pretty squarely.
Do I have any complaints? No, not really. After my initial concerns about the appearance of the size of the clubface were allayed by the results, I came to enjoy, appreciate, or like everything about this driver. It looks great, it sounds great, it allows for exactly enough adjustability (without requiring special tools - the wrench Mizuno gives you is just a hex wrench), it's as forgiving as I need and provides the carry distance and ball flight I like to see from the tee.
The MP-630 Fast Track driver is an all-around winner.
Specifications
The MP-630 Fast Track driver comes with a 64-gram MRC Fubuki shaft in various flexes. The stock grip is a Golf Pride M-21 round grip. Custom shafts and grips are available through Mizuno's custom department.
Mizuno MP-630 Fast Track Driver Wrench
Unlike the wrenches of some other companies, Mizuno's is just a hex wrench, so you won't shell out more than a few bucks if you lose yours.
The driver is available in 8.5, 9.5, and 10.5° models, each with a lie angle of 58° and a stock shaft length of 45 inches. No left-handed models are available.
Club LH Loft Lie Offset Bounce Length
---- --- ----- --- ------ ------ ------
8.5 N/A 8.5° 58° N/A N/A 45"
9.5 N/A 9.5° 58° N/A N/A 45"
10.5 N/A 10.5° 58° N/A N/A 45"
MSRP is $499, though you'll find this driver for $399 virtually everywhere.
Conclusion
If nothing else, do yourself a favor and stop overlooking Mizuno's hybrid, fairway wood, and driver offerings. The MP-630 Fast Track driver is proof positive that Mizuno is more then capable of producing some serious equipment outside of the irons and wedges categories.
Mizuno MP-630 Fast Track Driver Promo
Given the proper shaft, loft, and a swing that's capable of finding hitting within an inch of the sweet spot consistently, the MP-630 is definitely a club you should try. Give it a whack, listen to the sweet sound at impact, and look up to see your ball rocketing down the fairway.
The fairway woods are very similar. The classic head shape holds a slightly open face that is pretty much perfect depth, neither too shallow or too deep, that looks equally adept on the tee or on the fairway and just the right size for workability.

The scooped crown of the hybrid has been present in Mizuno hybrids since the early days and the compact head and square face looks like it's ready for business. Again, very much the club that the better player can take advantage of.

An interesting point is that the stock Fubuki shaft looks slightly thicker than a standard 0.335" . This is an optical illusion produced by the contrast of the shaft against the crown but actually has a reassuring effect of preventing the balloon on a stick look that large headed clubs can have.

Performance

You need to bring a serious swing if you think you can play the non FAST TRACK version of the MP-630. It's possibly the lowest launching and lowest spinning club I've seen in years and you had best present the full loft to the ball if you think it's going anywhere. If you're the sort of player that hoods the face or delofts, pick the FAST TRACK version but if you're someone that has problems with spin or has trouble keeping the ball flight down that you must give this version a go. The feel at impact is very good as the head responds with a popping sound at impact.

On its standard settings the FAST TRACK version has slightly higher launch and higher spin levels than the non FAST TRACK version but that just brings it into the realm of those of us how do not have issues keeping the ball down. The FAST TRACK system allows 45 different trajectory settings so you can choose how you want the ball the zip through the sky. Masao Nagai, Director of R&D said, The original FAST TRACK was primarily designed to impact side-spin and the lateral characteristics of ball flight. However we quickly realized that being able to adjust backspin was just as useful. We focused even more on this aspect with the new FAST TRACK you can see by the track itself how far forward and back we can take weight from the face. The new system massively increases the potential of the MP-630 to convert extreme ball speeds into even bigger gains in driving distance..

As others have mentioned, moving the weights entirely to one side creates an unbalanced head that is difficult to hit but this actually shows how effective the weight shift is when you dial in the weights to your position from the 45 available. The 445 cc head has been chosen as a balance between forgiveness and controllability and they have succeeded at this. While all of us have benefited from the increased forgiveness of larger heads some of the more extraordinary shapes make for a club that doesn't always does what you want (although let's be honest, the driver seldom does what we want for us mortals) and taking one side of the course out and no longer an option. These clubs are specifically for the sort of player that wants to be able to do that. The sound from this head is slightly more muted than the non FAST TRACK version and the feel slightly quieter but it's all good.

The HOT METAL 6-4 Titanium face gives great distance from both drivers and the low spin on both versions means that you are not going to see any ballooning whatever the conditions.

The MP-630 Driver, 3 Wood and 5 Wood

With the fairway woods being made of HOT METAL Beta Ti face you'd expect them to be hotter than standard steel faces and you'd be right; the ball flies off the face. Since it's a player's club you want to be able to move the ball and absolutely you can. Titanium fairway woods have historically been more often associated with game-improvement clubs rather than the better player versions. The combination of the classic compact headshape with a titanium face has been taken by the likes of Tour Edge Exotics and turned into not just a viable option, but in the eyes of many the best option. Mizuno has followed this concept with the new fairways and the results are superb. Mizuno's internal testing saw the MP Ti carried the ball 13.6 yards further than its F-60 predecessor. Now we're all used to seeing this sort of claim with drivers, or at least we used to be before the manufacturers hit the COR limit. Mizuno have now taken the COR to the limit with these fairway woods so the titanium 5 wood goes almost as far as a steel 3 wood. Now I don't know about you but I'll take that sort of help, especially as it comes without any unwanted extra spin or compromise with trajectory.

The hybrid is again aimed at the stronger player. With its COG location producing a low spin flight that does not want to go left it is not only more forgiving than a long iron but more versatile too, especially with the curved sole making it equally easy from fairway or light rough.

Special mention should be made of the stock shaft. The made-for Fubuki feels great and plays absolutely true to flex in all clubs. In fact, unlike most made-for shafts, Mizuno actually asked for a stiffer tip than the standard Fubuki. It produces a great combination of trajectory and spin and it's a real treat to play even in the hybrid where it is less well known than in the woods.

The entire range seems to have been aimed at those who do not need any help getting the ball in the air. It's not to say that they aren't forgiving on miss hits but the emphasis is more on extreme performance and control rather than forgiveness.

Conclusion

Having two different versions of the driver allows golfers of any ability to find the one that's right for them. The slightly smaller head and the fact that they sit slightly open shows that they are aimed at the better player and the low spin and controlled launch shows that the aim is dead on.The fairway woods are amongst the best woods I've hit in years offering driver-like distance with control and forgiveness and the hybrid is also a cracker.