If you’re a big fan of the brand, today’s news will make you a happy man, as Cobra Golf is now inviting golfers worldwide to enter the Speedzone. What does it mean, you asked? Well, the new Speedzone family is Cobra Golf’s most technologically advanced and fastest driver family ever, and also the proud successor of the F9 Speedback range. Basically, the King Speedzone is the next-gen Cobra Golf, the 2020 version so to speak and it consists of 2 drivers, 3 fairway woods, 3 hybrids and 2 sets of irons.
So, if you’re looking for the perfect Christmas/New Year gift, the Speedzone 2020 should rank high on your shopping list. Now, if you’re wondering what the Speedzone thing is all about, here’s the answer: Cobra’s new drivers are taking inspiration from the automotive world, i.e. there are design attributes borrowed from the fastest cars in the world, or so they claim. All jokes aside, the new drivers are named King Speedzone and King Speedzone Xtreme, and yes, that really sounds like a racecar; moreover, the new collection features optimized zones of performance and every component is engineered to perfection, just like in a racecar, to maximize power output.
The Speedzone 2020 collection is designed with an emphasis on lowering the center of gravity, and that was made possible by something called T-Bar Speed chassis and a 360 carbon wrap crown design. Compared to the older Speedback generation, the Speedzone uses copious amounts of titanium to save weight, in order to improve overall performance. Besides featuring space-age materials like titanium, the new KING SPEEDZONE Drivers, fairways, hybrids, and irons boast a new CNC milled face, which is orders of magnitude more precise compared to regular face polishing, that according to the company of course; also, the face has been increased by ninety-five percent, so it now helps beautifully with off-center hits. Here's the wrap up for your reading pleasure:
Let's begin with the irons, which according to Cobra Golf, are pushing the boundaries of speed and technology even further. As we already told you, the new irons are vastly improved compared to previous models, as Cobra's R&D department focused on 4 zones in order to refine performance: power, weight, feel and stability. Basically, the end goal was to build the best, fastest and easiest to hit long irons, while the mid and short irons were still precise and controllable. Here's the deal: for $899 you'll get Cobra King Speedzone and One Length Speedzone irons (4-GW) with KBS Tour 90 steel shafts and Lamkin Crossline Connect grips, or, for $799, you can opt for (5-GW) with UST Mamiya Recoil ESX 460 graphite shafts. The new iron family is built with cast stainless steel heads with carbon-fiber inserts and multi-material badge, and they're available starting from next year, January 17, 2020.
As per price and specs, Cobra's new irons are the definition of game improvement, but don't let that fool you for a second: the top of a game improvement iron is hardly the best place to seek for outer space technologies and innovations, but Cobra pulled that off as they uniquely designed their latest irons, and we bet you'll stare long and hard at the top of your clubs. Here's why: the new irons are built mostly from cast stainless steel, yet the top of the King Speedzone 3- through 7-irons features 2 cool looking carbon fiber strips. One strip is hidden inside the cavity, under the top line, while the other is clearly visible on the top of the club. And yes, it looks phenomenal, glad you asked. Why did Cobra put those carbon fiber strips there you ask? Well, besides looking awesome, carbon fiber is exceptionally light and strong, hence Cobra Golf's engineers managed to shave 3 grams of weight with this new design feature. The weight that was saved via carbon fiber in the topline was then moved to the lower back section of the heads, i.e. Cobra managed to pull down the CoG, and move it farther from the hitting area, in order to promote more spin and a higher launch angle.
The new King Speedzone irons boast a forged stainless steel face, which is thicker in the center and thinner in those particular areas prone to attract miss-hits. The face also wraps gently under the leading edge and further into the sole, and this design allows it to flex more efficiently. Just like other current-year irons, the King Speedzone by Cobra Golf is designed for distance and aimed at mid- and higher-handicap golfers. Feel was also enhanced by using a thermoplastic polyurethane, elastomer and an aluminum-foam tape back medallion, that absorbs nasty vibrations at ball impact and softens the feel, while also improving the sound. Besides the regular Speedzone irons, there's a new One Length version of the clubs, yet both versions come “stock” with the now-famous system of embedded sensors, Cobra Connect respectively, which link with your smartphone wirelessly via Bluetooth and the dedicated smartphone app, thus helping you to track performance and so on and so forth.
Next in line we have the Cobra King Speedzone and King Speedzone Xtreme drivers; these bad boys are priced at $449 with UST Helium Black, Mitsubishi CK Blue, Project X HZRDUS Smoke or Aldila Rogue Silver shaft and Lamkin Crossline Connect grip and feature a carbon-fiber crown and sole areas with milled titanium face, moveable weights, and an adjustable hosel. Both models are available in black-yellow or black-white colorways from January 17th, 2020. Here's Head of R&D Cobra Golf Tom “T.O” Olsavsky comment on the new Cobra King SpeedZone and SpeedZone Xtreme drivers:
“Tour feedback is very relevant as we use our tour staff to help us design the products. We work w Rick, Bryson and Lexi on multiple occasions during the design and development process to help us create the best product, both for tour players and golfers in the market.”
Basically, the new King Speedback and King Speedback Xtreme drivers are packed to the brim with Cobra's modern technologies and are aimed at helping golfers to hit the ball straighter and farther than ever before. Arguably, the most important feature in the new drivers is the NC-milled Infinity Face, a term borrowed from the smartphone/TV world, and it depicts the fact that, unlike other driver faces that are forged and then soldered onto the chassis, then hard ground and polished, these ones are more high tech, i.e. they are milled to perfection by robots controlled by AI or something along these lines. The new Speedback drivers also feature an enlarged sweet spot that helps with protecting the ball speed, especially on miss-hits more efficiently. The chassis is also new and redesigned and comes with a titanium strip that goes all the way to the front of the club to the back section, while the crown and the sole use carbon fiber to save weight. Half of the club is now built from carbon fiber, and the weight savings are helping with lowering the CoG and to push it away from the hitting area, thus promoting stability and a higher launch angle. The new King Speedback drivers arrive with a 69-gram internal weight located at the back of the sole, as well as 2 moveable weights, a 14 gram and a 2 gram respectively. If you put the 14-gram weight in the forward position, you'll benefit from reduced spin and a lower ball flight; on the other hand, if you put it in the back, you'll see a boost in spin and forgiveness. Just like the irons, the drivers arrive with Cobra Connect technology, which is awesome, to say the least.
The Cobra King Speedzone fairway woods retail for $279 with UST Helium 4, Mitsubishi Tensei AV Blue or Project X HZRDUS Yellow shaft and Lamkin Crossline Connect grips and they feature a stainless steel body with carbon-fiber crown, plus a CNC-milled face and adjustable hosel. Available models range from 13.5-degrees to 22.5-degrees of loft from Jan. 17, 2020. The King Speedzone is Cobra Golf's latest fairway wood, and it's built to make hitting easier, both from the rough and off the turf. These babies combine various distance-enhancing elements which are also present in the Speedzone drivers, and they boast a stainless steel face, a CNC milled variant obviously, for more ball speed on hits shot all across the face; the new CNC milling technology by AI-enhanced robots allows Cobra Golf to control thickness in the face more precisely than ever, while the extensive use of carbon fiber in the crown helps with saving weight in a big way.
The fairway woods feature a tungsten weight in the back of the head, to lower CoG and to enhance forgiveness, as well as a higher launch. The railed sole has been updated too, and now features a hollow area behind the leading edge, which makes it easier to sustain speed and prevents the club from digging into the turf. Also, the hollow rail system makes for a more flexible face, which is a nice feature to have in a fairway wood, i.e. here's more distance in the new generations.
Besides the “vanilla” King Speedzone fairway woods, you’ll also be pleased to learn that Cobra Golf offers a Tour version and a Big Tour version; the former features a compact shape while the latter is basically a mini driver. All three variants of the King Speedzone fairway wood boast a redesigned MyFly8 adjustable hosel mechanism.
Finally, we have the Cobra King Speedzone hybrids, with a retail price of $229 with UST Recoil 480 ESX shafts and Lamkin Crossline Connect grips. Specs-wise, the hybrids feature a stainless steel body with tungsten weight. 2H (17 degrees), 3H (19 degrees), 4H (21 degrees) and 5H (24 degrees) and they'll become available from Jan. 17, 2020. The new hybrids complement the new drivers and fairway woods, and they're designed to deliver more forgiveness and distance than ever before. Just like the fairway woods, the new King Speedzone hybrids employ the Hollow Split Rail technology and a 12-gram tungsten weight in the back of the head, which is aimed at lowering the CoG, in order to promote a higher launch.
