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Full Golf Setup For Sale

Due to other commitments i am no longer able to play golf at such and intense level and therefore am selling my stunning golf set.

Included in this auction are as followed

Titleist 905T Driver. 10.5* loft with Aldila NV shaft (The green one) Regular

Callaway Steelhead 5 Wood - Regular steel shaft

Stunning grain flow forged Mizuno MP32's 4-9 iron with soft covers included. Regular steel shafts

Cleveland 900 series gun metal black wedges, 48* (Pitch), 56* (Sand) and 60* (Lob)

Please note that the Ping K56  Stand Bag is not included in the auction. I will throw in a blue Callaway STS stand bag instead (In excellent condition may i add).

Conditon of clubs :

Driver has 1 very faint sky mark

5 wood is fine

Irons have marks around the hossel due to them being grain flow forged but heads are fine due to covers

Wedges are fine.

All clubs have the usual wear and tear on the face where the ball has been struck.

Pick up only but i can enquire about P+P costs if needs be. I am prepared to deliver anywhere in Cornwall and as far as Bristol on the bases that the seller pays for my petrol there and back

Offers on individual items are excepted. Im Based in South Devon

Please email me at junkiesfriend2003@hotmail.com for all enquires

Paul Ransom

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£400 for everything

£250 for Irons

 I can deliver if needs be for petrol money or u can collect when ever

Wayne Santorini

The following is a review of the clubs from the Internet:

**Mizuno has been a long time favorite of touring Pro's around the world, and in fact Mizuno blades were the most played irons on Tour for quite a long time (mid 80's to mid 90's) .Being a hard core Mizuno player for a couple of years now, I quickly understood the meaning of the expression "soft as butter" related to a golf context when I hit a Mizuno MX20 for the first time. Forgings have been regarded as tools that only the best golfers can play, but this perception has changed dramatically over the last couple of years, specially when Mizuno introduced the fabulous MX23 irons, grain-flow forged, perimeter weighted, cavity back, game improvement irons that took the golf world by storm. You could read and hear all over the place about how great feeling, long and enjoyable this clubs are, and despite not having the help of massive ad campaigns as other brands do, became extremely successful and obtained unanimous rave reviews and top awards during mid 2004 and 2005.

Many of us got into forgings because of this fabulous MX23 irons from Mizuno. But later that year the news got bigger: Mizuno was coming out with a revolutionary new iron design called "Cut-muscle-back", and the name was bound to become one of the most recognized, desired and admired in the golf industry. Yes, I am talking about the Mizuno MP32!

WHAT IS ALL THE HYPE ABOUT?

For starters, the clubs are plain beautiful. They are perfectly crafted, polished, engineered and designed. Just looking at them is enough to get you excited. The face looks a lot, almost exactly to some of the newer MP series blades from Mizuno, like the MP30 or MP37's. The thin topline and the minimal offset tell you immediately that this is no ordinary iron: this is in fact a pure, beautiful blade intended to work the ball for those skilled enough to control a golf club to perfection 99% of the shots.

From the back, they really do not look like ordinary muscleback blades: the thin sole and compact head are evident, but instead of the usual solid mass that grows from the middle of the clubhead to the back, there is a V shaped cut-channel that runs from the hosel towards the toe, literally looks like you cut a piece of the clubhead and tossed it away. This places the CG a bit back and lower than other blades, but what is even more amazing its the way the head feels when it contacts the ball. Simply put: WOW! No wonder this club has been called from "editors choice" to "testers top pick" all over the place.

PURE FEELING, AMAZING CONTROL.

After I got better with my MX23, game-improvement Mizunos, I started to feel the need for a bit more control and shot shaping capabilities that my current short irons provided. The MX23's are REALLY LONG irons (because of superior design AND stronger lofts), but when the MP32's became available and the rave reviews and fantastic stories flowed all around, I became curious to try them. On January 16, 2005, this chance materialized and I've have not been the same ever since.


The MP32's I played with first were fitted with TT Dynalite Gold R flex shafts, cut .25 inches short and lie adjusted 1 degree flat. After a while I switched to a lighter, newer version of Dynalites, the great Super Lite Sensicores that offer excellent vibration dampening features and allowed me a bit faster swing speeds. I play to a 12 handicap and MUTS POINT OUT that I only play the 9,8, and 7 irons. I still use my more forgiving MX23 6 and 5 irons. I have not switched the 6 iron because the MX23 has been my most reliable, absolutely amazing and trustworthy iron since I played with it for the first time, and Im probably dumping the 5 iron for a hybrid soon.

Ok, so lets get back to the MP32's. I cannot tell you much about the long irons, other than they require a great deal of skill to hit them good, skill that I have not possess, and I fared much better using its more forgiving, yet still forged MX23 brother. The 4 and 3 irons I didn't even look at them. I already told you why I keep the MX23 6 iron in the bag (it is my favorite club ever, period!), but the 7, 8 and 9 MP32 are really superb, precise and delicious feeling scoring clubs.

The sensation at impact is crisp, a bit sharp if you stray even a millimeter off the center of the clubface, but the 1025 carbon steel is extremely soft feeling, yet they provide you with a solid, powerful feel. You can feel the ball riding the grooves on the clubface and compressing against it, and if you make perfect contact you will hear and FEEL a very distinctive "click" that just rockets off the face and flies towards the target. Mis-hits do not feel pretty at all, but I have played with many other forged irons and believe me, if you have ever hit a bad one with a Titleist blade, or even one of the older Mizunos (like the Mp33 or MP37) they are bone-rattling, sharp pain inducing instruments of torture for your hands. The MP32 do not feel nearly as bad on less than perfect contact, but they will penalize you with a bunch of yards off and short. As with all muscleback forgings, please avoid topped or thin shots at all cost.

So, now we are talking performance. Assuming that you have the skills to maneuver and hit this irons right on the spot 99% of the time, the results will be amazing and rewarding: extremely consistent distances is a trademark of the MP32's. I have rigged mine for 1 degree stronger loft to match my previous MX23's specs, and my standard swing produces 165 yards off the 7 iron, 155 yards with the 8 and 145 with the 9. But pushing the envelope can give me an extra 7 yards off each one. The risk is high, but it feels SO nice!

Workability is an excellent feature for this clubs. I like to work it left to right (a moderate fade) and it works perfectly every time. Draws tend to be more difficult for me but I can pull them off almost every time. Knockdowns are no problem because they are so easy to control, the head is perfectly balanced and weighted just how I like it. The MP32's love to be pushed to the limit, that is very true, but when it is time for those "creative" pitches and chips, believe me: these sticks can but the ball ANYWHERE you want.

The touch and feel is amazing, as I have stated many times here. Many people I know made this its main excuse for trying them, and they got hooked. Ideally, these clubs should be played by low handicappers, very skilled ball strikers who love the feel of forged clubs. I simply do NOT match this description, but still manage to play those short irons good enough to enjoy and score lower than ever. Yes, they DO require a bit of time to get used to the faster, smaller and more responsive faces, as well as the reduced sweet spot. But being absolutely honest, I really did not expected to adept to them so fast, so good.

Yes, the looks are magnificent and the WOW factor is huge. With all the top shaft options available (from Nippons to Rifles to True Tempers...you name it) THIS is the blade everybody is following right now. However, it is easier to hit than most muscle backs I have played, and if you are looking for smaller, more workable short irons AND you are a good short iron striker, by all means give the MP32's a test drive. With the arrival of the newest Mizunos (the MP60's, a cut-muscle iron with a bit of cavity back for forgiveness) I am sure a lot of mixed sets will be cooking up for Xmas.

I think they are among the best golf clubs offered today, not just for their superior design, feel and superb performance: they also have this unlikely ability to be useful for not-so-elite players who can manage to play smaller short irons. Yes, they are punitive and demand a LOT of skill, especially the long and mid irons. But as I did, I just took what I could handle. And I like them a lot. And they have helped me improve notoriously: the added confidence that your ball will reach those greens and it will STAY there, is just amazing.

Excellent clubs, perhaps the best blades to come out in years. If you have a good game and feel adventurous, why not? Now, if you are GOOD and have never put a MP32 in you hands, I feel sorry for you: you are really missing one amazing, extraordinary golf club. **