Mizuno’s standard for excellence and innovation is the reason behind its place in sports history. Brothers Rihachi and Rizo Mizuno opened a shop in Osaka that sold Western sporting goods six years before Japan had even entered the largely Western Olympic Games in 1912. Mizuno introduced Star Line, the first commercial line of golf clubs in 1933. Today it continues to be an internationally respected golf brand with its precisely engineered JPX and MP iron series.