In the golf equipment world, and in the driver category in particular, if a brand promises ground-breaking, game-changing, or any other kind of performance breakthrough that can’t be expressed without the help of a hyphen, you can be all but certain that it’s blowing enough smoke up your ass to cook a brisket.
The USGA’s leash is short on slack, and that mandates a reality where club engineers must work exceptionally hard to make modest year over year performance improvements. The simple fact of the matter is that while speed remains, and may always be the name of the game, real velocity gains are hard to find, and better performance almost always comes from small improvements in materials and construction.
“It’s not CT, it’s CG,” says Tom Olsavsky, Cobra’s VP of R&D.
Translation: It’s not more speed, it’s better distribution of weight that’s going to help golfers get just a little bit more out of their drivers.
You’re probably not going to hear that in any of its commercials next season, but it’s why when Cobra touts No Limits – the tagline for its 2020 product line – it’s not talking about skirting USGA rules. It’s an expression of the brand’s willingness to explore every possible avenue to find each bit of additional performance it can. If that means taking an unconventional approach and doing things that its competitors can’t or won’t, so be it.
Those are the design realities, but improved mass properties and tighter tolerances don’t really move the needle at retail. The market demands speed. Always. It’s not enough for a driver to be fast; it has to look fast. And that brings us to the requisite backstory.
Speedzone Inspiration
In creating the Speedzone family, Cobra says it took inspiration from Formula 1. It’s a style of racing that epitomizes speed, and the general idea is whatever you might do to improve the performance of a racecar you might want to do to improve the performance of a driver.
To that end, Cobra looked to improve performance in 6 areas – you might call them speed zones. Those zones are Power, Strength, Low CG, Light(er)-weight Materials, Aerodynamics, and Stability.
There’s a reasonable balance of logic and marketing in this part of the story, but since it provided the justification for letting me drive a Lamborghini at Cobra’s recent media event, I’m okay with it.
Within Cobra’s 6 zones, there’s plenty of overlap, so I think it makes sense to focus on the two pieces of the story that bring everything together.
Infinity Face
Cobra’s updated milled face technology – Infinity Face – has nothing to do with racecars. It borrows its name from those edgeless infinity pools you typically find at high-end resorts that I can’t afford. This milled face design, which debuted with the F8 driver, describes an enhanced milling pattern that extends beyond the edge of the face. Oh, and so you never forget what we’re talking about here, Cobra went ahead and milled an infinity symbol in the center of the face.
Why does this matter? The symbol itself doesn’t, but several benefits come from CNC milling the face, and several more that come from milling beyond the edge.
Let’s start with the simple and surprising one:
Improved (or break-even) Aerodynamics
In addition to providing some degree of alignment benefit at address (your mileage may vary), Cobra says the milling marks along the topline, which it calls Micro Flow Energizers, provide an aerodynamic boost.
Look, I’m not an aerodynamicist, I don’t have access to a wind tunnel to verify this stuff, and, for what it’s worth, I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night either. Frankly, this feels like one of those things that will be disputed in a competitor’s conference room at a later date, but Cobra’s story is that the leading-edge milling lines work as mini aerodynamic trips, which help to reduce drag and maintain speed throughout the swing. It’s why Speedzone drivers lack the polymer crown features found on F8 and F9.
Short version: the visible business on the leading edge of the crown allows the golfer to see the face angle at address while creating a look that’s cleaner overall and possibly more aerodynamic. I’ll also mention, as I typically do in these situations, that aerodynamic benefits disproportionally benefit higher swing speed golfers. If you swing much below 100 MPH, you’re not likely to see any quantifiable benefit from any of this aerodynamic stuff anyway.
More Ball Speed
Yes, there is a ball speed story, and moving to the middle of this list may amount to burying the lede, but the reality here is a bit more nuanced than faster, longer, infinity more yards!
As with everything else in the driver world, there is a speed element to the Cobra Speedzone story. It’s literally in the name. It starts with the milled area of the infinity face being 95% larger than it was in previous models which gives Cobra more precise control over nearly twice the face area as compared to the F9.
By extending the milling beyond the edges, and aided by what it calls CT Pads in upper and lower center portions of the leading edge, Cobra says it’s able to raise ball speed across a greater percentage of the face. It’s difficult (if not impossible) to speed up the perimeter without speeding up the middle, so Cobra leverages a rhomboidal-shaped e9 pad to increase thickness in the center region of the face to bring CT back to within USGA limits.
It’s your basic off-center ball speed story, and the larger point is Cobra is giving you just a little bit more speed over a larger area of the face.
What golfers may not fully understand is that even if 100% of the face were at the USGA limit, you’re still going to lose speed on miss-hits. Off-center strikes cause the head to deflect, and with that, ball speed loss is inevitable. Just something to keep in the back of your head when everyone is talking about boosting CT across the face.
So yeah, just like everyone else, Cobra talks about pushing ball speed (CT) up to the legal limit. With all of the controversy surrounding failed CT tests on tour, it’s worth taking a moment to explore what this actually means.
By the letter (or I suppose the number), the USGA limit for driver CT is 239 microseconds. You’re allowed 18 microseconds worth of tolerance for things like club manufacturing variance, CT gauge variance, and the guy taking the measurement too. That gets us to an absolute limit of 257 microseconds (the limit of the limit). There’s also an unofficial limit of sorts around 250 microseconds. If test parts exceed that number, the USGA will likely take a closer look to make sure hot heads haven’t made it out into the wild.
Much to the USGA’s chagrin, nobody is designing to 239, because while 239 might be the limit, it’s slower than designers need (or want) to go. Typical CT targets are somewhere in the range of 242 to 246 microseconds. While that’s not a huge difference (10 CT points are worth about ½ MPH of ball speed), in a launch monitor battle, every little bit counts, and every manufacturer knows it.
When asked about Cobra’s CT targets, Tom Olsavsky declined to be specific, saying only “Our CT targets are to be legal.”
It’s almost certainly within that gray area between 239 and non-conforming where the most significant benefits of Infinity face can be found.
Improved Consistency
Milling is significantly more precise than hand polishing. And really, polishing is an intentional misnomer the industry uses because polishing sounds more delicate and precise than grinding, which is a better description of the process used to finish most golf clubs and every other driver face.
Milling yields significantly tighter tolerances. That’s deeper in the weeds that most golfers will care to wade, but you should appreciate the significant differences it makes for the consistency of finished parts.
For example, the standard deviation of the top roll radii of Cobra’s milled parts is 3mm compared to 13.2mm with hand-polished parts. The numbers are similar for bulge radii. If that’s Greek to you, understand that roll radii impacts launch and spin consistency, while bulge plays a significant role in direction and dispersion. Do you really need me to tell you why this matters?
Ultimately the story Cobra wants to convey is that by milling its driver faces, it’s able to deliver a finished product that’s much closer to the design spec than what it believes you’ll get from its competitors – all of whom still polish their driver faces by hand.
CNC Milling also allows for more precise control of face thickness. That means Cobra should have greater control over its CT tolerances. It’s a more challenging story to tell than the commercially digestible Speedy McFast Face stuff we’re accustomed to, but what we’re really talking about (again) are bell curves and standard deviations. With more control over a larger portion of the face and the increased consistency that comes from milling, Cobra can narrow its manufacturing tolerances while bumping its CT targets a bit closer to the limit. Theoretically, that means that nobody gets a driver with a CT above 257, but nobody gets one much under 239 either.
Here’s an unpleasant fact you won’t find in any driver ad. While everyone says their drivers CTs are at the limit, the limitations of modern manufacturing say otherwise. Some degree of manufacturing variance is unavoidable, so there is a connection to be made between more speed and tighter tolerances. Cobra’s milled infinity face isn’t about pushing speed over the limit; it’s about ensuring that every head that leaves the factory is as fast as the rules allow.
Reimagined T-Bar Chassis
While it lacks the elegance and style of a Formula 1 car, there’s a case to be made that the T-Bar chassis of the Speedzone driver took its inspiration from Joe Dirt’s Trans Am. Who didn’t want a T-Top back in the day?
I probably shouldn’t trivialize this because the new design is a significant departure from anything we’ve seen to date. My hunch is it may well become another example in a storied line of Cobra innovations that others quietly integrated into their designs.
Historically, composite driver construction has featured a composite crown piece glued to the titanium ledge of a predominantly titanium body. With Fly-Z, Cobra integrated weight-saving composite panels into the sole. That particular style of construction has become common across nearly all manufacturers leveraging composites in driver construction.
With F9 Speedback, Cobra integrated what it called a Carbon Wrap crown. Instead of resting on top of the driver, Cobra extended its use of composite material into the skirt section of the driver (the area immediately beneath the crown), and fundamentally changed the shape of the head – driving more mass low and deep. That carbon fiber skirt and Speedback shape served as a stepping stone to get us to Speedzone.
The goal in using carbon fiber is always to pull weight from where you don’t need it (often the top portion of the driver), so it can be repositioned where it provides real benefit (some combination of low and back). With Speedzone, Cobra is taking a radical (by golf standards anyway) approach to head design.
With the new 360 Carbon Wrap design, instead of sitting on top of the frame, two large pieces of carbon fiber wrap around the T-bar body, and are joined in the center portion of the frame. The result is a driver body that’s 50% carbon fiber (10% more than F9). That frees up 6.3-grams of discretionary weight. I realize that doesn’t sound like much, but there isn’t a driver designer working today who wouldn’t love to have a bit more than 3% of the total head weight to play with. It may look like a small number, but 6.3 grams is kind of a big deal.
Cobra took the weight it saved with the new chassis and other design tweaks and put it into a pair of heel and toe weight pads for stability, and added what it calls an Exhaust Weight (mass and material varies by model) in the extreme rear of the club. To keep this whole racecar theme going, it hid the Exhaust Weight behind a tailpipe detail at the rear of the head.
In total, Cobra was able to position up to 69-grams of weight low and back (in the lowered Speedback portion of the club).
These types of mass properties improvements (CG location and MOI) are at the forefront of every Cobra driver discussion we’ve had for the last several years. You’re getting higher launch, a lower spin option (if you need it), and increased MOI throughout the lineup.
And of course, you’re benefitting from the consistency that comes from the CNC Milled Infinity Face.
2.5 Different Models
Last season’s F9 Speedback was available in one model only. Well, sorta.
The 9° version had a more forward center of gravity (lower spin) and filled the role of the Plus models from prior generations. 10.5° and 12° versions of F9 had slightly different mass properties that made them play a bit more like what used to be the standard model. Higher trajectory, more forgiving, etc..
This year Cobra is moving back to a two-model lineup, though it’s pulled a bit of a Titleist and flipped the script on performance properties and naming conventions. The standard version of the Speedzone is more like what Plus used to be, though again, there’s some loft-driven nuance.
Let’s see if we can make sense of it.
Speedzone
The Speedzone (no suffix) is perhaps the closest to a Plus model. Both the 9° and 10.5° models feature movable flip zone weighting (14g and 2g). As you likely know by now, placing the heavier weight in the front will lower launch and spin and provide a more penetrating trajectory. Placing the heavier weight in the rear will provide a more towering trajectory, a bit more spin, and higher MOI.
The 9° model has a 5-gram steel Exhaust Weight, while the 10.5° model offers a 7.2-gram tungsten Exhaust Weight. As with the F9 Speedback, it’s a small distinction intended to tweak the mass properties to optimize performance for the player most likely to fit into each loft.
Speedzone Xtreme
New, or perhaps BACK, this year with a new name is the Speedzone Xtreme. It’s the higher MOI complement to the lower spinning standard SZ. It has a larger address footprint (it looks bigger), doesn’t offer movable weights, and because forgiveness is the name of this particular game, it has a significantly heavier (17-gram) Tungsten Exhaust weight.
With MOI around 5500, it should prove to be one of the most forgiving drivers on the market in 2020.
The Speedzone Xtreme is available in 9°, 10.5°, and 12°. A 12.5° Junior version is also available.
For those wondering if Cobra might release a smaller driver along the lines of the AMP Cell Pro, TaylorMade M5 430, or a Titleist M4, don’t hold your breath. Olsavsky dismissed the idea saying, “We’re a for-profit company.”
All Speedzone drivers feature 3° of MyFly Loft adjustability (1.5° in either direction) with draw settings available in neutral, +1°, and -1°.
Mass Properties (CGna & MOI)
If you’re wondering what all of that looks like from a mass properties standpoint, Cobra says it looks like this:
If you’ve never seen a chart like this before, for context on what this means and why it matters, I suggest starting with our 2019 CG and MOI report.
Two Lengths
As you can see on the mass properties chart above, Cobra is also offering SZ TL Drivers. We’re not talking about an entirely different model here. The TL stands for Tour Length, and it means that the shaft is 1” shorter than standard (44.5” instead of 45.5”). That measurement includes the Cobra Connect sensor embedded grip.
To maintain swing weight at shorter lengths, mass needs to be added to the head. To balance things out, the SZ TL ships with 18g and 6g weights. The SZ Xtreme TL ships with a 14-gram weight.
With more weight added to the head, the center of gravity is pushed lower (higher launch/ lower spin) and farther back (higher MOI). Golfers looking to maximize forgiveness and control should give serious thought to the SZ Xtreme TL. The shorter shaft should prove more accurate, while the additional head weight pushes the MOI above 5700.
Two (Men’s) Colorways
(Yeah, uh-huh, you know what it is)…Black and yellow with red accents remains Cobra’s signature colorway, the company will again offer an alternative option for those who prefer things a bit more muted.
Following up on last year’s off-white Avalanche, the secondary color offering is a matte black and white offering, also with red accents.
A women’s model is available in Gloss Black/Rose Gold.
Four Shafts
As fitting has become a more substantial part of the conversation, manufacturers have expanded their stock shaft lineups to include multiple launch and spin profiles. That’s the case with the Speedzone lineup.
The UST Helium (Lite, Regular), with updated black paint, fill the high launch/mid spin slot. Mitsubishi’s Tensei AV Blue 65 (Regular, Stiff) is the mid launch/mid spin offering. The Project X HZRDUS Smoke Yellow 60 (Stiff, X-Stiff) is billed as mid launch/low spin, while a 110 MSI version of the Aldila Rogue Silver 65 (Stiff, X-Stiff) is your low launch/low spin offering.
If none of the above suit your needs, an additional 20+ no upcharge shafts are available through Cobra’s custom department.
Cobra Connect Included
As it has for the last several years, Cobra will again include Cobra Connect (powered by Arccos) sensors at no extra charge.
Golfers who purchase a Cobra Connect enabled driver will receive a special offer for Arccos sensors for the rest of their clubs. The annual subscription fee for Arccos is $99.99.
The Soft Sell
This is the part where I’m supposed to say something so bold that, not only will you immediately run out and buy (or at least try) the Cobra Speedzone driver, Cobra will paste my words into next year’s media presentation.
I’m not going to do that…at least not on purpose. The fact is that you should already want to try Speedzone. Over the last several years, Cobra has been the industry’s biggest innovator in the driver category. What it has lacked in hype, it has made up for with a resolute focus on improving performance through better mass properties. I’ll concede that’s not nearly as sexy as twist faces and supercomputers, but it’s a recipe that’s led to the creation of a growing list of high performing drivers that are every bit the equal (and often the superior) of those from bigger brands wither deeper pockets and louder voices.
It should be reason enough for you to take a Cobra Speedzone into the demo bay with you when you’re hitting new drivers. Why wouldn’t you?
If that’s not enough, consider that the Cobra Speedzone driver has a retail price of only $450. That’s $50 less than Titleist and PING, $75 less than Callaway, and $100 less than TaylorMade.
You earned it, spend it however you like, but if you haven’t taken a serious look at Cobra, you could be wasting your money.
All SPEEDZONE products, including Speedzone and Speedzone Xtreme Drivers, are available at retail and online beginning January 17, 2020. For more information, visit Cobragolf.com.
Mike
2 years agoCan shafts with the F9 connector / tip be used on the New 2020 Model?
Brad
3 years agoRelated to some comments above, and those in episode 24 of No Putts Given, why does Cobra not have a fade biased model or tip for consumer purchase, even if custom order only? It seems they are abandoning consumers who want an open face angle to their competitors. I remember they made one a few years back, but it was only ever offered that one year. All Cobra products are non starters for that reason, I can’t be the only one.
Tony Covey
3 years agoA few thoughts here. First, fade settings from the hosel are relatively uncommon…it’s not just something the majority of golfers benefit from. Nearly every design decision plays to the middle of the bell curve.
PING tends to be more upright than most to begin with, so it makes a bit more sense for them to offer a Fade setting.
It’s not widely discussed, but with Cobra drivers going as far back as Fly-Z (I believe) and definitely by F6 – rear weight positions are slightly draw-biased, while front positions are slightly fade biased.
If you need a face that sits a degree or two open, taking loft off at the hosel also opens the face. In some cases, it can be beneficial to buy the higher loft offering and crank it down at the hosel.
Larger point here is that while not everyone advertises Fade options, most have the means to achieve the desired result.
Brad
3 years agoI’m confused. I know that generally delofting opens the face. Cobra touts that their Smartpad changes the loft without effecting face angle. Am I misinterpreting what they mean?
Biggi
3 years agoCG and MOI of the xtreme looks to be quite similar to the G400 Max?
victorziel
3 years agoI forgot to add that I think these drivers look extremly modern and classy and the huge number of options deserves a takeover of the top spot of the driver category for 2020. Extremly impressive work by Cobra. Bravo!
KP
3 years agoAnother in-depth and informative review. Great work Tony, but your outstanding review in no way will pull my Ping G400 SFT out of my bag anytime soon or make me want to demo a Cobra, just in case I want to part with a wad of cash. Keep “ Gettin it”
Stephen DiBari
3 years agoI knew it, Cobra would come out with a “better” F9 after i got custom fit this past Feb. at Club Champion NJ. They were great, i got fitted with an ACCRA 2.0 shaft M4 365 (shaft cost $365 and $449 for the club head). Also fitted for 3 wood, 4 wood, 3H & 4H all in ACCRA M4 Fx 2.0 shafts. Very tempted to go back to Club Champion in the spring and test it against my F9 with same shaft..Also tempted to compare against the Ping G410. I said to myself a few months ago, my bag is complete and set for 4-5 years !! NOT !!!
bobby
3 years agoI got fitted in MA for the same exact shaft in a Ping………….hit it the same as my stock shaft……will never drop that type of cash again……i find after a range session and a few holes my body and swing adjust to the shaft. I think Club Champion pushes certain shaft vice actually fit them. They are pushing Slay shafts for slower swingers., my friend got “fitted” into one and was at another course and some guy had the same set up.
Gil Bailey
3 years agoTony another great informative article. I have heard there are 257+ drivers on the market that are pushing the limit and have been found to be conforming. Have you seen these?
victorziel
3 years agoI still think that the Bio Cell Plus driver was one of Cobras best to reduce spin. I really liked that it had a deeper face as that made me swing more on the desirable upward swing path. I always felt that I would never sky it and never did. And that was missing for me with the shallower faces of my F8+ and F9 drivers. What about the face height of the SZ Xtreme or the SZ Plus? Are they as shallow as the F8/F9 because of the aerodynamic advantages and have the exact same height? I sure hope they offer a deeper driver someday in the future.
And at last what about the sound compared to the F8+/F9. Is it tinnier more muted or roughly the same? Looking forward to Cobras improvements on already great products in the last years.
TheBrad
3 years agoGreat write up.
Had I not just purchased an M5 recently I would give this driver a serious look. My numbers were much better with the M5 than the Cobra which is why I went that route. I think the aesthetics is something a few companies should start looking into more considering the wall they’re going to inevitably hit regarding the limits on the springboard effect. Matte white or matte black would be awesome.
Couple this with the fact that Epstein didn’t’ kill himself and you have yourself a winner. Way to go Team Cobra!
RI_Redneck
3 years agoYes, Great Write-up! This has me REALLY intrigued! I’ve been a Cobra fan for quite a while (9* Deep Face days) and have just about every model since . Currently gaming the F7 and LTD Pro. Looking forward to giving this a try..
XCMAN04
3 years agoThis is a great article! I’m definitely in the beginner/not really good golfer category, and I currently use a F8 10.5deg driver. I got the F8 at a great price, and I didn’t think the F9 was better enough (especially for my skill level) to warrant an upgrade. The SZ Xtreme TL, however, seems to check all of the boxes I’m looking for (forgiveness and control), so I’m definitely going to try it out and read all the reviews that I can. Could be a great birthday gift next year!
Steve
3 years agoSuperb write up. Correct me if I’m wrong but shouldn’t the Xtreme TL have a heavier weight than the non TL’s 17g ? Might want to check that 14g TL number.
Tony Covey
3 years agoSame situation as the non-TL comparison. The Non-flippable flip weight in the Xtreme is for swing weighing purposes and is lighter than heavier standard model at both lengths.
The higher MOI and more rearward CG location is driven primarily by the significantly heavier internal Exhaust weight.
Mike
3 years agoThanks Tony for the great review. Hate to be a downer but agree with others regarding paint chipping. Cobra absolutely has to fix this problem. I by all means do not have a full Cobra bag but being brand agnostic they always get a try. Bought last years speed whatever 3w, and in a very short time noticed a paint chip on the crown due to no fault of my own, just a defect. I am a golf perfectionist and that alone will cause me to look with a jaundiced eye toward Cobra products. That being said they are up there with the big boys in all other aspects, but I just won’t be looking at them this year because of this issue.
George Johnson
3 years agoi can not imagine how much better it is then my F9 which is a great driver
warbirdlover
3 years agoI’ve been playing Cobra’s now for a couple years. I have the F8+ at 9.5°. Last club outing of this year I had longest drive which includes all age groups. I’m 72 . Yeah I hit off the geezer tees (50 yards closer) but was hitting against all the young 300+ yard long hitting flat bellies. Cobra for the win!
Brian Pickton
3 years agoHi Tony, I really appreciate your in depth look at this driver. The humour goes down nicely as well. I put Cobra woods in the bag two years ago and last year’s Most Wanted Driver with Cobra’s offering hitting second place caught my attention. Now this. I wasn’t planning on replacing my driver this year, irons and wedges are in that rotation, but that just changed.
At the very least it will be going up against my M2. If I can get even more consistency out of the Cobra than the M2 than the Cobra will go in the bag.
Thanks again for the excellent work Tony..
downlowkey
3 years agoWow – yes, please! Really, really, really nice work Tony! Formula 1 is all about squeezing every last inch and Cobra seems to have taken that notion to heart with their initial Speed Zone family offering. I’m very impressed.
ThundrChief7
3 years agoGreat to see some real visible change in the face and head (air foils) Looks are awesome and I’m excited to give a trial flight of the missle..
Tony
3 years agoLoved my 440 SZ many years ago. Still love cobra. Amazing how marketing (SZ) can come full circle.
Mark M
3 years agoHi Tony, that was one of the best written articles about golf equipment that I have read in a long time. Keep up the great work and THANKS!
Oh, and yeah … I’ll probably be testing the Speedzone next year
Ryebread
3 years agoI tend to think the Tour Length may be the story here that most helps the masses. Wishon has done it and Callaway tried it on the BB Fusion a couple of years ago, but giving a properly swing weighted 44.5 inch driver that still looks “normal” has to be good for the majority of golfers. One that offers 5700 MOI and low loft has to be a front runner for driver of the year.
I also tend to agree with Kanoito regarding the face. Cobra has had issue with brittle paint leading to top line chipping for several seasons. They last had a rolled face leading edge back in the AMP days and I really liked it because the crown ended up looking much better.
Kellen
3 years agoThe Holiday Inn Express lone had me cracking up. Well done
Will
3 years agoI play the F9 at 9.5deg, weight forward & it’s an excellent driver; how much better can the Speedzone be?
Rick
3 years agoI got the chance to try it a few weeks ago, it’s better…
Scott
3 years agoWith such little cosmetic difference other than the wrap-around-face, I’ll really need to see the head-to-head vs F9 to determine if it’s worth the extra $160 (F9’s are starting to drop to the $290 range now) to upgrade. Was really hoping Cobra would provide flat lie settings this time to compete with other heads (TS3, G410) that are catering to those of us who want to play the fade… 🙁
B.Boston
3 years agoYou’d have to do a little work, but the guys at TXG mentioned on a video that you can use a left handed tip on a right handed driver to get a flat lie. I’m sure someone has done it before and you could figure out which settings matched to neutral vs flat.
Scott
3 years agoB.Boston, thanks so much. That is great information. I wish I had thought of that. I have an LTD so I’ll pick up a tip and give it a whirl. Thanks again!
RI_Redneck
3 years agoUsing a Cobra LH or different model adapter WILL NOT give you any more or different adjustment. The adapters are identical, only the markings are different.. Loft and lie is built into the head.
BT
Wai Chan
3 years agoGreat write up. I have the SpeedBack and one of the best drivers I’ve ever used. Hope we see a head to head test of the new vs old.
Lor
3 years agoHello new driver (matte version = $$$$$)
Kanoito
3 years agoI love the infinity face. Now I won’t have to worry about sky marks!
Funkaholic
3 years agoThat didn’t even occur to me but, I have dinged more than my fair share of top lines.
MIGregB
3 years agoI tried out & eventually bought a Callaway Epic Flash SZ driver based on the 2019 Most Wanted driver for my swing speed (low 90s). It’s not a lot longer than my 2015 Callaway XR, but it’s definitely more consistent (it’s a shorter shaft which helps consistency so it must be hotter face to still be a bit longer than the XR). I got a great deal on a like-new used model (honestly can’t tell it from new!) from Callaway Pre-Owned, otherwise I would have never bought it. It’ll be very interesting to see the numbers for the new Cobras vs the 2019 drivers. They’re making it VERY difficult to ignore them.
B.Boston
3 years agoMatte crown on the white model? or still glossy?
Tony Covey
3 years ago100% matte on the white.
B.Boston
3 years agoHell yes! that’s awesome. I really liked the matte finish on the M5 with the carbon, I’m sure this will look sexy as hell matted out too.
Rob
3 years agoRogue 110 Silver as a stock shaft… What year is this??
Tony Covey
3 years agoIt’s a new model. New consumer variant of the Rogue 130.