Gear: Cobra King TEC irons
Price: $1,299 (4−PW) pinch KBS-Taper Lite alloy shafts and Lamkin Crossline grips
Specs: Hollow-body creation pinch forged 1025 c alloy body, soul tungsten weight, and urethane microspheres
Available: Nov. 8
Who it’s for: Golfers pinch a handicap betwixt 5 and 15 who want an robust that looks for illustration a better-player’s region nine and has a soft feel, but besides enhances region and forgiveness.
What you should know: The King TEC is simply a hollow-body, better-player’s region robust designed to look and consciousness for illustration a leaf but present much region and forgiveness for players.
The heavy dive: Better-player region irons person been 1 of nan hottest categories successful play instrumentality because location is simply a increasing number of players who want a compact leaf magnitude and cleanable looks but are unfastened to hidden distance-enhancing technologies. With nan updates made to nan King TEC, Cobra is keeping 1 of its astir celebrated irons squarely successful that mix.
The King TEC features a hollow-body building pinch a chassis made from forged 1025 c steel. The forging process involves 5 presses aliases strikes, which enhances nan atom travel of nan red-hot metallic arsenic nan irons are formed, resulting successful a amended feel.
Once again, Cobra has designed nan King TEC irons pinch a variable-thickness look nan institution calls HOT Face. In summation to being thicker successful nan halfway and thinner astir nan perimeter, nan look sheet itself is shaped for illustration an L and wraps nether nan starring separator and into nan sole. The edges successful nan toed and astatine nan apical besides cup astir nan broadside of nan head. The consequence is nan saccharine spot is enlarged, particularly little successful nan hitting area, and much of nan hitting area tin flex efficiently astatine nan infinitesimal of effect for greater shot velocity and distance.
The erstwhile King TEC irons were made pinch a 15-gram weight wrong nan hollow chamber, but nan 2025 type now features an soul 20-gram tungsten weight successful nan 4-7 irons. The tungsten drives nan halfway of gravity (CG) location little and encourages a higher motorboat perspective successful nan agelong and mid-irons. The 8-iron done spread wedge do not incorporate tungsten, which allows nan CG location to elevate. In scoring clubs, that’s bully because 8-irons, 9-irons, and wedges person capable loft to get nan shot successful nan aerial easily. Many players for illustration to formation their scoring clubs down and support nan trajectory debased for amended region control.
To heighten nan sound and feel, Cobra has added urethane microspheres wrong nan King TEC irons that soak up vibration. The material, which is filled pinch millions of mini solid bubbles, is softer than nan foam that had antecedently been utilized successful nan King TEC, truthful nan caller clubs should consciousness softer while besides providing much shot speed.
The lofts of nan King TEC irons are modern, pinch nan 5-iron astatine 26 degrees and nan pitching wedge astatine 44 degrees. In summation to nan modular 4-iron done pitching wedge, location is simply a 3-iron (19 degrees) and a spread wedge (49 degrees) besides available.
Below are respective close-up images of nan Cobra King TEC irons:
Cobra King TEC irons
The Cobra King TEC irons. (David Dusek/Golfweek)
Cobra King TEC irons
The PWRShell look wraps nether nan starring separator to widen nan saccharine spot down. (David Dusek/Golfweek)
Cobra King TEC irons
Internal tungsten weight successful nan agelong irons lowers nan CG location. (David Dusek/Golfweek)
Cobra King TEC irons
Vibration dampening foam is injected successful nan heads past sealed by a screw successful nan toe.…
Vibration dampening foam is injected successful nan heads past sealed by a screw successful nan toe. (David Dusek/Golfweek)
Cobra King TEC irons
The Cobra King TEC irons person a relatively-thin topline and humble offset. (David Dusek/Golfweek)
Cobra King TEC irons
The Cobra King TEC irons (left) person a thinner topline and shorter leaf magnitude than the…
The Cobra King TEC irons (left) person a thinner topline and shorter leaf magnitude than nan King TEC X irons. (David Dusek/Golfweek)
Cobra King TEC irons
The Cobra King TEC irons (left) besides person a thinner sole than nan King TEC X…
The Cobra King TEC irons (left) besides person a thinner sole than nan King TEC X irons. (David Dusek/Golfweek)
Cobra King TEC irons
The Cobra King TEC irons. (David Dusek/Golfweek)