More Marvelous Mizuno Modules

The company has added a new, zero-torque, front/neck section and two back sections to its ingenious M Craft X putter system

We’ve featured numerous Mizuno products on this page through the years – golf balls, wedges, drivers, fairway-metals and, of course, irons – lots of beautiful, forged irons with sensational feel. A few non-forged models have crept in, too. What we don’t see in our archives, though, is a Mizuno putter.
While the multi-sport Japanese company, based in Osaka, recorded record revenue of about $1.7 billion last year, it couldn’t accurately be described as a sporting giant, though its golf division is, of course, very highly-respected around the world. And while we don’t propose giving you a full history of Mizuno’s putters, we will mention it offered them as early as 1933 as part of its Starline complete set.

Dedicated putters that weren’t part of a set didn’t begin appearing, in the U.S. at least, until the 1990s. Mizuno worked with Scotty Cameron in the early part of the decade and later with TP Mills and Bettinardi before releasing its own line – M Craft – in 2020.

M Craft featured three single-piece forged models with movable sole weights, but it wasn’t modular like M Craft X, which arrived in early 2025.
It would be wrong, very wrong, to suggest modular putters became as closely associated with Mizuno as its irons, of course, but M Craft X certainly was newsworthy. Adjustability and extensive fitting with multiple head/neck options were nothing new, but Mizuno’s method of changing out the front/neck sections (three options) and back sections (also three options) by unscrewing/replacing/re-screwing the heel-toe weights was new and…impressive (the components fit together extremely well, enabling the putter to feel like a single-piece forging).

At the end of last week, Mizuno announced a fourth front-section – Z-Neck – and two new back-sections – Two and Three – would be added to the M Craft X line, increasing the number of possible front/back combinations from nine (3 x 3) to 20 (4 x 5).
The Z-Neck brings zero-torque to M Craft X. We all know that zero-torque means the head doesn’t want to twist during the stroke, which means it should be easier to keep the putterface square to the path of your stroke. The zero-torque is achieved by pointing the axis of the shaft through the putterhead’s Center of Gravity.

The new Two back-section (Z2) is a wide-body blade design with a single white alignment line. The Three (Z3) is a domed mallet with a slightly raised alignment line and a higher MOI.
Every M Craft X face and neck front-section (Z-Neck, double-bend, slant-neck, plumber’s-neck) is forged from a single piece of 1025E mild carbon steel. The hitting areas are CNC-Milled to create a solid feel at impact and improve roll. The back-sections are made of aluminum and are, therefore, lighter than the front-section which pushes the CG forward, the aim being to give the putter the feel of a blade but stability of a mallet.

By having 20 front/back combinations (the heel-toe weights add another layer of adjustability), there’s obviously no need for Mizuno to create 20 different putters which has much to do with the price of an M Craft X being quite a bit lower than that of other high-end, milled putters. Consumers likely won’t purchase multiple back-sections at $150 a time and play around with the front and back before arriving at a combination they like, but rather work with a fitter to find the combination of front/neck and back that most suits their eye and their stroke.

$399
Shaft – KBS CT Tour 120 (black)
Zero-torque models have a SuperStroke TLT Pistol 1.0 grip. Plumber’s-neck, slant-neck and double-bend have a Lamkin Sink Fit grip.
7, 14, and 21-gram sole weights available.
Limited number of models in right and left-hand. Most in right-hand only.
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