COBRA Restricted Version Black Drivers and Wedges
- New restricted version black end for LTDx drivers and KING COBRA wedges
- Drivers get an all-black shade scheme with a white LIN-Q aftermarket shaft.
- Full KING COBRA wedge line will get stain-black QPQ end.
- Drivers $599; wedges $149
- Accessible beginning right this moment
Immediately’s launch of the COBRA Restricted Version Black drivers and wedges is concurrently intriguing and predictable.
It’s predictable in that the KING COBRA wedges have been out for a full 12 months now. And OEMs love giving their gear—notably wedges—a second-year enhance with a brand new look. The brand new COBRA Restricted Version Black wedges actually verify that field.
What’s intriguing is that type of an admittedly gimmicky enhance is uncommon for a driver that’s been out for under about two months. If it was anybody aside from COBRA, it’d be eyebrow-raising curious. However since it’s COBRA, who has been identified to drop restricted version coloured drivers like Ted Lasso drops colourful colloquialisms, we are able to say it’s enterprise as standard.
COBRA Restricted Version Black LTDx Drivers
COBRA is giving the complete LTDx driver household the brand new blacked-out shade scheme. Wanting down on the motive force, the body, carbon fiber crown and face are nonetheless the identical black they’ve been for the previous two months. However the white and orange striping on the perimeters is now grey.
The distinction is noticeable when you flip the membership over. The historically loud orange and white sole accents and orange sole weights at the moment are all black and grey. Now, this is what you name Stealth.
We gave you an in-depth look into the LTDx household over the winter however right here’s the Cliff Notes model. The LTDx household is multi-material, with 30 % extra carbon fiber than RADSPEED and a lighter, stronger titanium chassis. PWR-CORE Know-how locations weight strategically relying on the motive force and the goal golfer.
The LTDx LS is the low-spin mode for greater swing pace gamers. It makes use of a heavy PWR-CORE that pushes weight ahead to offer low spin and quicker ball speeds. It’s additionally the least forgiving within the household. The LTDx MAX, because the identify suggests, has the forgiveness of a pet. It makes use of a lighter PWR-CORE that permits weight to be pushed again and low. It’s additionally essentially the most draw-biased within the household and has moveable weights.
And the LTDx, as you’d guess, is true within the center. It’s not fairly as forgiving because the LTDx MAX however COBRA says it supplies the very best mixture of ball pace and launch situations.
Specs and Availability
COBRA says the brand new all-black shade scheme makes the LTDx driver lineup look—and I quote—“refined and edgy.” Kind of a cross between an previous David Niven and a younger Mickey Rourke. You kids can look that one up.
Every driver comes with a customized blacked-out Lamkin Crossline grip and an aftermarket UST-Mamiya LIN-Q shaft in white. I don’t find out about refined or edgy however I’d say the combo ought to look fairly badass.
That refined and edgy badasssery will price you $599 which is a $100 upcharge from the apparently unsophisticated and regardless of the reverse of edgy is commonplace LTDx lineup.
The brand new COBRA Restricted Version Black LTDx drivers shall be obtainable beginning right this moment at retail and on-line.
COBRA Restricted Version Black KING Wedges
Extra predictable is the brand new end for the year-old KING COBRA wedges. Chapter 6 within the Golf OEM Normal Playbook says it’s completely acceptable to provide your wedges a second-year gross sales enhance with a brand new end. What’s fascinating right here is COBRA’s selection of end.
COBRA, together with Hogan, Maltby and some others, use DBM (Diamond Black Steel) for its black satin end. DBM is taken into account ultra-premium in that it’s not a coating however an precise end that’s embedded into the metal. DBM is roughly seven instances extra sturdy than PVD (which, by the way in which, is fairly sturdy). And it’s a billion instances extra sturdy than black oxide or black nickel which are likely to put on off if you happen to converse to them harshly.
Nevertheless, COBRA is utilizing a very completely different a part of the alphabet with the Black KING wedges: QPQ.
QPQ stands for Quench-Polish-Quench. Because the identify suggests, it’s a three-step course of. First, the iron head is quenched in a 1,300-degree Fahrenheit molten salt-nitrogen-carbon answer for about two hours. After rinsing and cooling, it’s polished to cut back floor roughness. It’s then quenched once more in a brand new oxidizing salt bathtub. When it comes out, it has a easy black end infused into the floor of the metallic.
By way of finishes, it’s proper up there with DBM.
The Black KING COBRA Wedge Lineup
Once more, these are the identical wedges COBRA launched final March and have what COBRA calls Snakebite Grooves.
In response to COBRA, Snakebite Grooves are deeper and wider than the grooves on its older wedges. Moreover, whereas the lower-lofted 48- via 54-degree wedges characteristic an ordinary groove format, the 56 via 60 fashions have full-face grooves.
Moreover, the COBRA Restricted Version Black KING wedges could have the identical three grind choices. The Versatile Grind is what you’d count on, a middle-of-the-road grind with heel, toe and trailing-edge aid for versatility.
The Basic Grind has progressive aid from heel to toe and a cambered vanguard. It’s designed for gamers with a steeper angle of assault. The grind isn’t that versatile but it surely does assist the membership glide via the turf with out diffing.
Widelow Grind can be because the identify suggests: a large sole with low bounce. It’s greatest fitted to bunkers and smooth situations.
Specs and Availability
The complete KING COBRA wedge lineup shall be obtainable within the new black satin QPQ end in each commonplace and ONE Size. The complete lineup, nevertheless, means various things relying on which facet of the ball you stand on. For righties, it’s all three grinds in 48- via 60-degree lofts in two-degree increments. For lefties, the complete lineup contains the 52-, 56- and 60-degree lofts within the Versatile Grind solely.
The COBRA Restricted Version Black wedges include an ordinary Lamkin Crossline grip and the KBS Hello-Rev 2.0 metal shaft. Pricing stays the identical, at $149 per wedge.
They’re additionally obtainable beginning right this moment.
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