Mizuno ST MAX fairway woods / Official R&D Summary

Chris Voshall talks through ST Max and compares with the full ST Series fairway wood line up for 2024.

Right now I’m holding stz STG St Max Fairway Wood the STG this is a fully titanium fairway wood with a really heavy stainless steel plate and our ctech chamber we brought that spin really low and put a lot of weight forward so it’s going to look small and

It’s going to spin low stz this is not a titanium head this is a uh this is a steel head but we move some Mass around by using composite on the top and then our cortech chamber on the sole side so it is a larger footprint head it’s going

To spin more than the G but it’s not crazy low spin because of this concentration here and it’s kind of a midsize Fairway Wood the St Max this is the largest of the bunch this is going to be the one that’s going to get in the

Air most it’s going to spin easiest it’s going to launch high it’s going to come down steep this is the one for those people who are a little bit almost afraid to hit a fairway wood because they’re not as easy to hit it does have the cortech chamber again to keep a

Little bit of mass forward so we’ve even seen tour players putting it in the bag as well so again three different sizes three different levels of performance but all looking the part of a mauno fairway Woods are a really personal Golf Club you know I’d say if there’s one

Club in the bag of tour players that you see that might be Generations old it’s the fairway wood because you’re looking for specific things specific looks you get used to a performance of them with Mauna we’ve really for a while had just one level of performance now we’ve got

Three different levels three different looks between the G the Z and the max I’m holding the new St Max fairway wood this is a really nice change to what we had some really good things with the stz the stz we kept very kind of midin size

Midin spin with the max we were able to expand it a little bit more in terms of forgiveness and allowing that launch and spin to go up just a touch for some players the way we did that when you look at the head size itself it got

Deeper from front to back more mass away from this from that face area away from that center of gravity makes it launch easier it’s going to make it spin a little bit more the cortech chamber you can see grew significantly and it actually moved towards the heel a little

Bit not that it’s heel word but because the Z actually lived a little bit more on the toe side it’s more Central across the face that means you’re going to get more consistent ball speeds all across the face on the toe and on the heel and

When you look at the look at it at add dress the actual profile it’s a more confidence inspiring lower profile lower to the ground golf club with the St Max Fairway Wood you know the concept is easy we wanted to make it as forgiving as possible goes High goes straight and

We actually took that up higher in Loft as well we got the three wood we got the fivewood we got the seven wood and with that we’ve kind of expanded it even into the hybrid world as well so from the St Max concept we go from the seven wood

Right here to I’m holding the St Max Hybrid idea behind it is the exact same more forgiving easier to launch goes a little bit higher spins a touch more the only difference really constructionwise between the fairway wood and the hybrid is that we don’t use composite on the

Crown because of the size of a of a hybrid putting that composite there actually hurts you a little bit because it takes def different materials different adhesives to put it in place so this is a stainless steel Club also but we used a what we call our waffle Crown technology so internally we’ve

Removed Mass all across this Crown to move that Mass low and deep the best validation of our Woods is are the best players in the world accepting it and it’s so funny how you start looking at the players that are using our woods now Keith Mitchell led the tour in total

Driving last year Ben Griffin phenomenal player playing in STX Keith was playing the stz we just had a win on tour with Grayson Murray playing the STX driver you know I think the ultimate validation of a golf club is tour usage and for a while mudo struggled with that on our

Wood side that’s no longer the case now where you’re seeing all sorts of different models between our Z’s our X’s Max’s G’s Fairways hybrids drivers all these getting two or acceptance