News·18 October 2026·2 min read
Mizuno's JPX One Won Best Hybrid 2026 on a 9.8 Accuracy Score — Then MyGolfSpy Published the Catch
The outlet that crowned the winner also wrote the reason it won't suit every golfer.
MyGolfSpy published a piece on 16 October 2026 revisiting three of its own 2026 Most Wanted winners and explaining why each one carries a caveat. First on the list is the Mizuno JPX One, which won Best Hybrid of 2026 and still came with a spin warning attached.
What the test actually found
The JPX One won on accuracy, which MyGolfSpy weights most heavily in hybrid testing. It finished first in that category with a 9.8 score, and testers kept just under 96 per cent of their shots in a playable position — the best mark of any hybrid in the test. For a golfer swapping a long iron for something that holds greens, that is the number that matters.
The catch, in MyGolfSpy's own words, is spin: the JPX One ranked among the highest-spinning hybrids in the test, and one tester reported it spun too much for his game. Notably, the caveat is framed qualitatively — a spin grouping and a tester's feedback — rather than as a single rpm figure you could fit against your own numbers.
Verified DataSource: MyGolfSpy.
"Best in test" is a shortlist, not a fitting
This is the most useful thing an independent tester can do: publish the limits of its own winner. A test result is an average across a tester pool and thousands of shots. It tells you a club is well built and performs under controlled conditions. It cannot tell you whether your delivery already produces enough spin that the winner climbs, stalls and gives yardage back into wind.
The golfers most exposed here are the ones who already spin it: steep deliveries, high-launch profiles, players who struggle in breeze. For them, the hybrid that kept 96 per cent of shots playable for a mixed tester pool may be the one that costs carry.
Where this sits with us
KaddieIQ has no stake in which hybrid, or which ball, wins anyone's test — we don't sell equipment. BallFIT is free, and it exists because the same logic applies on the ball side with far more money at stake: the tour ball that tops a distance chart can be the one bleeding you spin control, or the one you simply can't compress. Use test winners as a shortlist. Then fit to your own numbers, not to someone else's average.
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The figures inside a Verified Data panel are checked against a named, public source — a retail listing, a press release, an independent test — before they are published, and we link to that source directly. They are not the same as a manufacturer’s own performance claims, which we report as claims, in the body text, until an independent test confirms them. If a number carries the badge, you can check it yourself at the source link below the panel; if it doesn’t, treat it as reported rather than verified. KaddieIQ is not paid by any equipment brand and sells no clubs or balls.