Equipment
Cobra’s new King wedges, with 3 different sole grinds
Cobra’s new King wedges join the company’s King family — including drivers, woods, hybrids, utilities and irons — which will be offered in three different grinds.
The company collaborated with Rickie Fowler, Jonas Blixt and Lexi Thompson to deliver wedges with a softer feel, more spin consistency and greater versatility. The result is Cobra’s line of King wedges (made from Satin Nickel Chrome with stock True Temper Dynamic Gold S200 shafts), which will be available on April 1 for $149.
The King wedges use “progressive milled grooves,” according to Cobra, meaning the grooves are wider and have wider gaps in the higher lofts (56-60 degrees) to grab the ball more, but have “traditional groove spacing” on the lower lofts. Also, the faces (as shown above) use a milling process the company calls “variable face roughness,” bringing the faces to the USGA’s legal limits on roughness and depth.
For a softer feel, Cobra says its engineers used “modal analysis” to tune its vibrational frequencies, resulting in the “softest feeling wedge to date.” And, Cobra’s new King wedges have the company’s familiar notch in their soles.
The King wedges come available in three different grinds: “Versatile” (8-10 degrees of bounce, Rickie Fowler’s grind), “Classic” (11-12 degrees of bounce) and “WideLow” (4-7 degrees of bounce), thus allowing golfers to find a wedge that suits their swing characteristics and the usual turf conditions they play on.
Related
- See the King wedges that Jonas Blixt has in his bag here.
- More photos of the Cobra King wedges from the PGA Show.
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- Adam Scott what’s in the bag accurate as of the 2024 CJ Cup Byron Nelson.
Driver: TaylorMade Qi10 (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Blue 6 TX
Driver: TaylorMade BRNR (13.5 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 7 TX
5-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (18 degrees), TaylorMade Stealth 2 (18 degrees
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 9 X, Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 9 X
7-wood: TaylorMade Stealth (21 degrees)
Shaft: Graphite Design Tour AD DI Black 9 X
Irons: Srixon ZX Mk II (3), Srixon ZX5 Mk II (4), Srixon ZX7 Mk II (5), Srixon Z-Forged II (6-9)
Shafts: Graphite Design Tour AD DI Hybrid 105 X (3), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (50-12F, 54-08M), SM9 (LW), WedgeWorks (LW)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (48-54), S400 (LW)
Putter: L.A.B. Golf Mezz.1 Proto
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
See the rest of Adam Scott’s WITB in the forums.
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Driver: TaylorMade Qi 10 (9 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei 1K White 70 TX
3-wood: TaylorMade Qi 10 Tour (15 degrees)
Shaft: Project X HZRDUS Black 80 TX
Irons: TaylorMade P790 (3), TaylorMade P7MC (4-6), and TaylorMade P730 (7-PW)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100
Wedges: TaylorMade MG4 (50-09SB, 54-11SB, 58-08LB)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putter: TaylorMade TP Reserve Juno
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet
Ball: TaylorMade TP5x
Check out more in-hand photos of Pierceson Coody’s WITB here.
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Ben Griffin might be a little too young to remember some of the iconic Maxfli golf balls that won on tour, but that isn’t stopping him from putting the newest Tour X ball from the brand in play. Today, Maxfli and Griffin announced an exclusive partnership that will see the PGA Tour player using the company’s four-piece golf ball.
While Griffin might be the first PGA Tour player to put a new Maxfli golf ball in play, he isn’t the first profesional golfer to do so. Lexi Thompson has been playing the Maxfli Tour golf ball on the LPGA Tour since the beginning of the 2024.
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We caught up with Ben at the CJ Cup Byron Nelson in Texas this week to ask him about the new ball switch.
“I was able to finally get my hands on some and try it and immediately I saw faster ball speed with the driver, which is always something every golfer wants to see.
“Then I had to test a lot around the greens and test irons, test spins, test everything like that. Basically, I came to the conclusion that I thought this was probably one of the best golf balls for my game.
“And so I decided to make it official and partner with them and very excited to help kind of launch this golf ball and see where it takes us.”
Griffin’s ball of choice is the Maxfli Tour X, a four-piece golf ball that is made for highly skilled players that want consistent distance off the driver and spin around the green. An updated core design helps add the ball speed that Griffin mentioned and two ionomer mantle layers separate low spin driver shots from higher spin iron and wedge shots. Maxfli uses Center Of center-of-gravity balancing to ensure each ball has consistent flight in the air and roll on the green. Like all golf balls on tour, the Tour X features a cast urethane cover for maximum performance, and it has a tetrahedron dimple pattern to enhance aerodynamics.
It is exciting to see a golf ball at a lower price point — $39.99 at Golf Galaxy — being used by a top 100 ranked player in the world like Ben Griffin, and equipment junkies will be keenly watching his performance with the new ball.
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Jason Purk
Mar 20, 2016 at 3:43 am
$149 geewizzz
gunmetal
Feb 19, 2016 at 5:37 pm
Anyone know the lofts that will be offered?
Tad
Feb 17, 2016 at 10:35 pm
Excited to see these in person. Especially like the look at address (at least from the pictures). Wish Cobra would get these on their website with more photos, specs, etc. Also surprised to see them with an SRP of $150 per club (would think they’d try to come in beneath SM6s). Also, the Golf Digest Hot List 2016 has them at $120 per club…
josh
Feb 17, 2016 at 8:10 pm
Surprised to see Cobras claim that increasing the groove spacing will increase spin on the higher lofted wedges. I almost bought a Wishon wedge to kick around. TW’s research claimed that decreasing groove spacing to get 5 grooves in contact with the ball at impact led to increased spin. What happens when the surface roughness goes away after hitting a thousand balls?
M-Herd4
Feb 17, 2016 at 4:55 pm
Love Cobra Gold products. Great looking wedges. I have a Tour Trusty wedge and couldn’t be happier.
Jon
Feb 17, 2016 at 3:25 pm
S200 shafts? I guess I shouldn’t knock it until I try them, but the S300 shafts feel too light in most other wedges.
nick
Feb 16, 2016 at 4:33 pm
In the King line-up, these wedges are dead last. Aesthetically anyways in my opinion. These things are being introduced at $150 too…? My guess is they come up short in the numbers (sales) department.