Can these fit in a bag?

I am constantly on the lookout for the best top of the bag tools. I’m not a great wood player, so I’m always looking for the perfect fairway wood, and my love of hybrids has me testing tons of great options on the market.

I started looking around at home for what I might have overlooked to start the 2026 season, and some Mizuno JPX One metal woods were staring me right in the face. Almost with a disappointed look. So I took them out to test them. Let’s review the JPX One 22-degree hybrid and the JPX One 24-degree 9-wood.

Initial impressions

It’s probably a surprise to most people that Mizuno makes a really good metal and a great hybrid. It’s just not what the company is known for. Mizuno is all about irons. But that has changed over the past five years. I actually played an ST-MAX 3-wood for a brief moment last year when I needed something I could easily hit out of the deck with no effort. I also built an ST-MAX 7-wood that I adored until I went back to playing hybrids over high elevation woods.

Mizuno JPX ONE Custom Fairway Wood

JPX ONE Fairways introduces a re-engineered CORTECH Chamber that strategically changes the internal gap between the sole and the chamber wall. This geometry increases face flex toward the toe and heel, enhancing energy transfer across the entire hitting surface without compromising center performance. Available in lofts from 15° to 24°, the JPX ONE Fairways offer the ultimate blend of ball speed, forgiveness and playable trajectory for players looking for easy distance with Mizuno’s signature feel.

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Mizuno’s stuff has always been very fast and very easy to hit. The Coretech front chamber, which continues the improvements in the new JPX One lineup, does exactly what it’s marketed to do: provide ball speed across the face and consistent release conditions on off-center shots. It also sounds fantastic. That Coretech Chamber deadens the sound just enough for you to get a nice hot crack out of your face without being too offensive to the ears.

The new JPX One is also a beautiful new offering with a deep blue color that reflects beautifully in sunlight without being distracting. It’s a nice nod to the Mizuno blue we’re all used to, but done in a different way to highlight the carbon on the crowns as well. It’s a great transition from the black topline as it fades into dark blue carbon fiber.

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I chose to test the 9-wood and 22º hybrid against each other, not only to test the designs again, but also to see what the differences would be between them. I jacked up the hybrid and jacked up under the fairway wood to compare the two at 23º loft. Nothing I saw was surprising, but it offered reassurance as to who these various clubs were built for.

of Mizuno JPX One 24-degree 9-wood launched significantly higher with more speed. He was living around 141 mph ball speed off the face at almost 20º of the launch. With spin values ​​in the high 4000s, I was getting about 215 yards from the 9-wood, but with an average tip height of 142 feet. The good news? It was so easy. The JPX One options have been among the lightest fairway woods I’ve tested this year. Very similar to why I played the older ST-Max for a bit, the forgiveness and consistency off the face was fantastic to see. For this spot in the bag, 141 mph ball speed is plenty.

If you’re reading this thinking that sounds a little too hot for your game, rest assured that the point I’m trying to make here isn’t about my speed, but that the JPX One helps generate a lot of speed and launch. A 142-footer with the 9-wood is unfortunately not something that works for my bag, but it will absolutely be on my list of recommendations for players who want something easy to hit hard and hit high.

Custom Mizuno JPX ONE Hybrid

The JPX ONE hybrids take the same design philosophy and apply it to a more compact, iron-replaceable form factor. Their Waffle Crown structure increases face stability, enabling Mizuno engineers to reposition the free mass lower and deeper for optimal launch and spin control. A uniformly thick 1.8mm MAS1C face combines with the improved CORTECH Chamber and Speed ​​Bevel sole design to produce incredible speed through impact, even on low face shots or challenging terrain conditions. Available in 19°, 22°, 25° and 28° lofts, the JPX ONE Hybrids offer a smooth transition from long iron to fairway wood while maintaining the visual security and feel Mizuno players expect. hybrid

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with Mizuno JPX O with 22 degreesin the hybrid, I found a nice sweet spot and something much more manageable for my game.

I’m already a big fan of hybrids and have played them for almost my entire golf career, so this was more of a direct test for me. I was getting the same 215 yards carried by the hybrid, but in a very different window. The launch was a little lower, closer to 16º, and the rev was at about 4000 rpm, a fantastic window for something I would consider a 4-hybrid. While the hybrid produced more speed for me than an iron in this loft, it wasn’t quite as quick as the 9-wood, only reaching about 138 mph at its peak, with an average closer to 137, factoring in all swings. Keep in mind, part of this is the difference in club length. However, what got me with the JPX One hybrid was the creativity. I would classify this hybrid as more of a single-player hybrid than a game-enhancing hybrid. Because it has such a consistent launch and spin window, it’s a very useful tool for players looking for some versatility in this part of the bag. I was able to launch it just as easily as I could with the fairway wood, but it was much easier to hit the windows and various flights with the hybrid, which is why I chose a hybrid for my bag.

Final Thoughts

Can the JPX One end up in my bag? Of course. I have nothing bad to say about the product. For me, the difference would be in the construction. Based on the look, sound, feel and ease of the 9-wood I tested, I definitely want to do a follow-up with a 3-wood and see if there’s a build there that might end up being useful for the bag. The next step for me is to move on to the stock shaft I was testing and see if dialing in a better shaft for my game might be why I put these in the bag.

The freeway was impressive. Easily generates speed and gets the ball in the air with little effort. This would be a great option for players looking for something a little more compact, with a slightly deeper face than some other offerings, while still getting the launch assist needed to properly empty the top of the bag. The hybrid was a great player’s hybrid that offered plenty of forgiveness while maintaining speed and stability across the face, which helps to be a little more creative with flight selection. Both are great options for their respective customers.

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