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After a long and almost fierce resistance to producing any driver with a head larger than 390 cubic centimeters, Miura Golf just released a new 460 cc model.  As with so many other developments by the Japanese club-maker, the design offers most of the advantages of a large-headed club, but has aesthetics that give it a compact look not often seen in today's toaster-sized driver heads.   Called ... Read more

New clubs? New swing? New attitude? Every year the holidays provide golfers with the chance to renew, repair, and revive their love affair with the game.   For 12 long months, the writers at The A Position—golf’s leading website—have been looking toward the season of giving hoping to get something that will magically lower their scores and lift their spirits. So in the spirit of Christmas, Hanukkah, ... Read more

My 56-degree Miura K Wedge has a new best friend that just took up residence on the opposite side of the bag. With its unusual and yet beautiful design, the K Wedge has quickly become my most versatile tool around the green, a scoring club from wet sand, thick rough or tight lies.  And now, Miura Golf's recently introduced MG Hybrid may well redefine the look, ... Read more

Back in March I had the distinct pleasure of meeting master custom club fitter David Butler at his shop in Half Moon Bay, California, and posting a piece about the fascinating fitting experience for The A Position. Known as Doctor Grip, the Ohio-born Butler was once the chief engineer for Chrysler Corporation and has been assembling clubs his entire adult life.  Now 73, he works ... Read more

Promising golfers smaller clothing sizes, no hunger, plenty to eat, and the sublime feel of lightly striding up the 18th fairway with legs as fresh as on the first, veteran Food and Weight Loss Coach Larry Jacobs will present his latest Weight Loss for Golfers Tele-Seminar Series this coming September 28 – and with a special end-of-summer half-price offer. Guaranteed to make participants “Thin for ... Read more

Better make that forged in the starring role. Over the weekend Miura CB-501 irons were the clubs of choice for K.J. Choi, winner of the Players Championship. Cavity-backed models crafted by and named for Katsuhiro Miura, the Japanese forged-iron guru, the win also flew in the face of a prejudice more often inflicted on “model-actresses”: the assumption that the performance could never match the appearance. Not that ... Read more

Japanese golf-club manufacturer Miura Golf - - which has been making the world’s highest-quality forged irons for 44 years and is rapidly gaining an increasingly large following in the United States - - recently announced its first  dealership in Russia.  StudioGolf, which was founded in 2010 by owner Viacheslav Bocharov, will fit and adjust the Miura clubs at an indoor golf center in the Luzhniki sports ... Read more

Fabled for producing what are arguably the world’s highest-quality forged irons since the company’s founding in 1957, Japan’s Miura Golf doesn’t often release new products - - at least not as routinely as American companies on a rigid cycle.  Only when Founder and Chairman Katsuhiro Miura is fully convinced that a design, its technology and manufacturing quality is right does the company release a new ... Read more

Since business appeared to be trending away from dueling in 1928, the master samurai sword craftsmen of Himeji, Japan, began making the country’s first golf irons. One craftsman in particular, Katsuhiro Miura, went on quietly producing expert clubs for 48 years, often for pros winning major worldwide tournaments. But there was a certain code of silence in effect about the Miura clubs, since the sticks in ... Read more