To simplify the fitting equation, Cobra will advertise F6+ as having 5 distinct weight positions, but the CarbonTrac is designed to secure the weight in intermediate positions as well, which means F6+ actually has 9 distinct weight positions. The end result is 6mm of potential center of gravity movement, and approximately 600 RPM of total spin change from front to back.įor the sake of comparison, last year’s FLY-Z+ offered approximately 450-500 RPM change between the front and back positions. With all of that extra weight laying around, Cobra was able to increase the amount of movable weight to 18 grams (up from 15), and increase the surface area over which weight can be moved. The previous FlipZone structure was built entirely of titanium. Moving to a carbon fiber design saved an additional 8 grams. New to the F6+ is what Cobra calls CarbonTrac, which as the name suggests is a track (trac) system built entirely from Carbon fiber. It’s your basic strength to weight ratio play.Īnother one-half of one gram (as Cobra’s Mike Yagley told me last year, “we’re sub-gram fisticuffs in R&D”) came from refinements to Cobra’s Speed Channel face technology.Ī little here and there is good, but the biggest chunk of new-found mass savings came from a redesign of the track system that supported last season’s FlipZone weighting.
As you may recall from our coverage of the KING LTD release, Ti811 is stronger and lighter than the Ti 6-4 used in the FLY-Z+. Another 6 grams was saved by moving to a Ti811 alloy for the face and body. With its carbon fiber crown Cobra was already saving 12 grams over titanium. Some of the hows of the F6+ design are reasonably standard issue mass savings stuff. That’s certainly not a unique story within the golf industry, but when you consider the year over year evolution of Cobra’s product lines, it’s hard to argue that anyone in the industry is doing a better job moving mass than Cobra. Ultimately a little less choice is better for both Cobra and its retail partners.įor those skipping over the bullet points your takeaway is that with F6+, Cobra wasn’t looking to make a newer Fly-Z+, they wanted to make a better FLY-Z+.Īs the avid MGS readers among you should be able to guess, the answer lies in updates to F6+’s mass properties.įor the uninitiated, the simple answer is that to improve over FLY-Z+, Cobra needed to find ways to save and strategically reallocate mass. Simplifying offerings – tightening up the range to focus on best-selling colors, that’s more about the economics of golf.
They’ll show you where they’re strong, where certain competitors excel, they’ll show you the actual physics behind their products, and they’ll tell you exactly how they achieved their mass properties. One of things I most enjoy about sitting down with the team at Cobra Golf is that they have absolutely no reservations about their technology. F6 the former is all about performance, while the latter (F6) is about is about personalization (that includes color and weighting), versatility, and fitting a wider range of golfers. We’ll get to the distinctions between F6 products below, but for those already wondering about LTD vs. With F6 Cobra is simply rounding out the KING lineup with replacements for the FLY-Z and FLY-Z+. The KING LTD just hit stores last week, and so while it would be easy to joke that Cobra has undertaken a release cycle so accelerated that it would make Callaway and TaylorMade blush, the truth is that F6 doesn’t usurp the KING LTD. It wasn’t that long ago that Cobra announced the KING LTD, a 100% performance driven driver with no adjustability beyond the hosel. There can be no argument with that…or so I’ve heard. Take a moment instead to focus on the kind of real performance that comes from tangible industry-leading mass properties. So forget about unmetal woods and leaving no yard behind.
COBRA AMP CELL DRIVER VS KING LTD SERIES
With today’s announcement of Cobra’s KING F6 Series of metalwoods intelligent golfers may finally realize that taglines, no matter how clever, are just words. If you’re not already, it’s time to start paying attention to Cobra
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