Cobra King TEC-X, King TEC-X One-Length irons

Gear: Cobra King TEC-X, King TEC-X One-Length irons
Price: $1,299 pinch KBS Tour Lite alloy shafts and Lamkin Crossline grips; $1,399 pinch KBS TGI graphite shafts
Specs: Cast 431 stainless alloy heads pinch hollow-body design, forged 17-4 stainless alloy face, soul tungsten weight, and urethane microspheres
Available: Nov. 8

Who it’s for: Golfers pinch a handicap betwixt 10 and 20 who want much forgiveness and region pinch a softer feel.

What you should know: The King TEC-X is simply a hollow-body, game-improvement robust that is somewhat larger than nan modular King TEC and delivers greater stableness pinch enhanced region for mid- and higher-handicap golfers.

The heavy dive: There was a time, not excessively agelong ago, erstwhile you could spot game-improvement irons each nan measurement crossed nan range. They were big, loaded pinch offset, and looked thing for illustration nan elegant and refined irons low-handicap players had successful their bags.

The King TEC-X irons show really overmuch times person changed. While they are designed to beryllium forgiving connected mishits and supply golfers who routinely sprout successful nan precocious 80s and 90s pinch much distance, they look for illustration a better-player’s region iron. Compared to nan 2022 TEC-X irons, nan 2024 exemplary has a slimmer topline and little ocular offset.

The King TEC-X irons characteristic a formed 431 stainless alloy assemblage attached to a thin, forged 17-4 stainless alloy face. The look features Cobra’s PWRShell H.O.T. design, which is thicker successful nan halfway and thinner astir nan edges to enlarge nan saccharine spot. The face, shaped for illustration an L, wraps nether nan starring separator to thief heighten capacity connected thin-struck shots.

While nan modular King TEC irons characteristic a 20-gram soul weight successful nan 4-7 irons, nan King TEC-X has a 70-gram tungsten weight successful those clubs that drives nan halfway of gravity (CG) location moreover further down, encouraging a higher motorboat perspective and amended power transfer. The 8-iron done spread wedge do not incorporate tungsten, truthful nan CG location people rises. Many players for illustration to formation their scoring clubs down and support nan trajectory debased for amended region control, and nan elevated CG location encourages that.

Some golfers find hollow-body irons thin to sound off-putting, truthful Cobra added an updated foam worldly that contains urethane microspheres wrong each King TEC-X caput to soak up excessive vibrations created astatine impact. The worldly is injected into nan heads aft they are cast, past sealed wrong by a screw successful nan toe. The cardinal is nan foam does not inhibit nan look from flexing, truthful golfers tin expect shots to consciousness amended and sound amended without sacrificing velocity and distance.

Compared to nan modular King TEC, nan 2024 King TEC-X will alert higher acknowledgment to its little CG location, but it will nutrient little spin. For golfers who request a game-improvement iron, little rotation tends to mean much distance, which they want, while more-accomplished golfers who for illustration nan modular King TEC’s size will beryllium much apt to want other rotation truthful they tin style draws and fades astir nan course.

In summation to offering King TEC-X successful traditional, variable-length sets, Cobra is offering a King TEC-X One Length set, pinch each robust being nan magnitude of a emblematic 7-iron (37.25 inches).

To make nan group activity without creating important region gaps, nan lofts successful nan 4-, 5-, and 6-irons person been weakened to make it easier to get nan agelong irons successful nan aerial astatine somewhat little plaything speeds. They besides person a somewhat wider sole and accrued offset to compensate for nan somewhat little velocity golfers will make pinch a shorter shaft.

Below are respective close-up images of nan Cobra King TEC-X irons: