Mizuno embraces classic Japanese luxury with new M-Craft City Series Putters

For a new line as forward-thinking as it was, Mizuno's M-Craft putter range, debuted back in 2024, didn't really make the splash the Japanese company probably hoped it would.

Part of this comes down to the simple fact that Mizuno will always be more renowned for its irons than anything else. It's a good problem to have, but with only a smattering of the brand's tour players gaming either Mizuno woods or putters, the brand, like many others, has struggled to make substantial noise in an increasingly crowded market.

The M-Craft range was intended to be a solution to this, introducing a modular design that allowed players to switch and swap heads, weights and putter shapes to suit their stroke. It was a novel idea, but a refreshing one from a brand clearly intent on making a bigger splash in the flat stick space. Unfortunately, we found the final product a little lacking, feeling it lacked the finesse and feel of a traditional milled putter.

Taking the M-Craft range in the new direction for 2026, however, is the new City series line: a range of forged putters that pivots away from modern tech and puts the emphasis back on the four core tenets Mizuno is best known for: heritage, individuality, innovation, and foundation. Mizuno have made a clear aesthetic turn with the new City series, embracing a more traditional look that screams the old-school luxury of '90s Japan. You could very much imagine taking a ride in your chauffeur-driven Toyota Crown to pick one of these up.

Further to this, Mizuno have renamed the series models to pay homage to four iconic Japanese cities. The Kyoto is the most traditional shape: a classic bladed profile complemented by the slightly wider Osaka mid-mallet. 

The two true mallets come in the form of the Nagoya, which has a classic rounded mallet shape with added perimeter weighting and a roll-up cavity for more MOI and less sole displacement; and the wing-backed Tokyo, which is more rigid than the old OMOI 6 for a better feel.

There's no newfangled modular tech here, rather Mizuno have placed the focus back resoundingly back on producing the feel that might just turn the heads of staff players and premium putter collectors alike. Each head is forged from 1025E steel, one of the softest available to Mizuno, and is engineered with the same copper underlay that sits beneath the face of the company's irons, the two working in harmony to provide a soft, crisp feel. Deep face milling, rendered in a very Mizuno-y wave pattern, delivers a true roll. Both are offered in a choice of a clean satin black or a classic nickel finish.

Priced at RRP £299 (about the same as the old M-Craft model), the new M-Craft City Series putters will be available to pre-order from January 26, with an on-sale date of February 12.