Mizuno JPX 919 Hot Metal Irons

The Mizuno JPX 919 Hot Metal iron is long, forgiving, and just plain easy to hit.  Through the use of different materials and a few tweaks to an already reliable design, Mizuno made the JPX 919 Hot Metal a Game Improvement iron dream.  If you’re a player that needs all the help you can get with your irons, Mizuno has you covered with the JPX 919 Hot Metal.

The Looks

Let’s not beat around the bush here.  The Mizuno JPX 919 Hot Metal is a big, chunky, offset SGI-lookin’ iron.  There’s no getting away from that.  However, if you’re in the SGI market, this look will be fairly unavoidable.  The difference is that Mizuno manages to execute this look in a much cleaner way.  Though the offset is noticeable, the hosel of 919 Hot Metal flows very smoothly into the face.  This makes the club head look quite a bit cleaner behind the ball.

From a general aesthetics standpoint, the JPX 919 Hot Metal has a similar look to the previous JPX 900 series.  Mechanical lines and a mostly high-polished finish give the iron a modern look.  With minimal paintfill and branding, Mizuno maintained the clean look they’ve been known for for all these years.

How Does it Feel?

At first glance, I expected the Mizuno JPX 919 Hot Metal to feel somewhat heavy.  In reality, the 919 Hot Metal feels the exact opposite.  It feels very light.  Considering this iron is designed for players looking to pick up speed and distance, the light weight makes a lot of sense.  A lighter club should, in theory, lead to a faster swing, which means more distance.  It’s not uncommon for a lighter club to feel unbalanced and difficult to control.  However, this is not an issue for the JPX 919 Hot Metal.  It was very easy to track the club and keep a smooth tempo through the swing.  Overall, the 919 Hot Metal is well balanced.

On impact, pretty much the entire face of this club feels active.  The Chromoly 4140M material allows for a “multi-thickness face for astonishing ball speeds.”  What I hear in that is that Mizuno is able to make the face thinner and hotter in more places to allow the ball to really jump.  This paired with Mizuno’s seamless construction (a one-piece cupped geometry) give you a hot feel at impact.  Only super fat shots, and extreme toe or heel misses have notably poor feel – as they should.

How Does it Sound?

The sound from the Mizuno JPX 919 Hot Metal totally depends on what type of shot you hit.  Mind blowing, right?  A nice clean clip of the ball has a finely-tuned (more on that later) “slap” to it.  Heavier-to-fat shots carry a firm “thump” as opposed to the usual thud you get from the ground bringing your club head to a screeching halt.  A nice added bonus to the 919 Hot Metal’s forgiveness!  The stock shot – ball first, center of the face, a nice thin scrape of a divot – has that slap I mentioned before, but a little extra “snap” from the turf.  For a GI/SGI iron, it’s a pretty tough sound to beat.

Let’s revisit my “finely tuned” comment.  A common problem for these big irons with thin faces and big cavities is that the sound gets very metallic and borderline unappealing.  Don’t worry, Mizuno took care of that.  Mizuno put sound ribs in the in the topline of the club that are designed to “hit specific vibration patterns” at impact.  The specific pattern results in a sound that should be more satisfying to the golfer.

On-Course Performance

Forgiveness and distance are the main purposes of the Mizuno JPX 919 Hot Metal irons.  Though the sole is a bit chunky, it has a perfect shape that seems to control itself through the turf.  What I mean by this is that it felt as if the club would only allow itself to go “so deep” and the club would track squarely through impact.  Frankly, hitting a good shot felt as effortless as just taking the club back and swinging away.  If I hit the shot a bit fat, the club would drive through and still give me good straight distance.  I had to hit it really fat to experience any real distance loss.

One of the JPX 919 Hot Metal’s key features is its Stability Frame.  The purpose is to, you guessed it, make the club more stable.  This also helps you get more ideal launch angles for approach shots into greens.  Often times, an iron designed to help you get longer, straight distance also comes with lower trajectory and more roll.  The 919 Hot Metal gets a nice high flight with a steeper drop to the green.

Final Thoughts

This might be the most forgiving iron I’ve ever hit.  Let me be clear, a lot of manufacturers have made great GI and SGI irons, but I’ve honestly never experienced forgiveness like I did in the Mizuno JPX 919 Hot Metal.  I’ll be blunt.  I made plenty of bad swings with these clubs that would normally result in a 20-yard duff.  Instead, the Hot Metals would bail me out with unrealistic results I didn’t deserve.  Players looking for a long, extremely forgiving iron that’s easy to hit high and straight should put the JPX 919 Hot Metal at the top of their list.

Stock Mizuno JPX 919 Hot Metal Irons Specs

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