Miura’s new MC-502 forged irons pair performance with playability

In the world of single-piece forged irons, refinements take time, and with the launch of the MC-502, Miura’s engineers consider they’ve created a worthy alternative for the longstanding MC-501. (Miura is an affiliate of GOLF.com.)

The newly reengineered MC-502 brings collectively the appears to be like and performance of a blade with the playability of a smaller forged cavity-back iron.

What separates the MC-502 from the earlier design is much less offset via the whole set alongside with a extra rounded high line and toe profile. By combining these traits, it creates a compact, easy-to-align iron that conjures up confidence at tackle.

“While the MC-501 proved that forgiveness was attainable in a blade iron without compromising performance, the MC-502 shows that Shinei Miura was able to incorporate subtle design enhancements to meet the discerning needs of better players,” mentioned Miura Golf’s COO Bill Holowaty.

When speaking a couple of smaller compact iron, the thought of playability takes on a unique function within the dialog because the goal golfer appears to be like at small particulars of the design to assist distinguish it from others. When Miura designed the MC-502, turf interplay was high of thoughts to assist the trendy participant; the only real design affords extra camber (roundedness from the resulting in the path edge) to go alongside with Miura’s acknowledged Y grind to the forefront.

A distinguishing characteristic of the Miura’s MC line that continues with the 502 is the channel and notches alongside the again muscle of the pinnacle. Beyond simply trying cool, the sensible objective of this design aesthetic is to take away mass from areas of the pinnacle the place it’s least efficient and push it decrease towards the only real.

This permits the iron to take care of its small look whereas nonetheless being extra forgiving than a regular blade-style design. The weight additionally shifts via the set to assist enhance launch with the longer irons and to manage trajectory with the shorter ones.

Price and availability

The MC-502 irons shall be obtainable 3-PW for $350 per iron, and can be found for order now at miuragolf.com

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Ryan Barath is GOLF Magazine and GOLF.com’s senior editor for tools. He has an intensive club-fitting and -building background with greater than 20 years of expertise working with golfers of all talent ranges, together with PGA Tour gamers. Before becoming a member of the workers, he was the lead content material strategist for Tour Experience Golf, in Toronto, Canada.