It’s much, much easier to simply pick a loft and a face angle rather than messing with lie angle and various degrees of face angle. It looks like this is what all OEMs are going towards, which I appreciate.
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Like many drivers over the last few years, the Bio Cell+ comes in only one loft, and the adjustable hosel (called MyFly8) allows you to select any half-degree increment between 8˚ and 11˚, with the middle three settings also available in draw-biased versions. That’s something the Cobra has included for a while, and if you buy the hype, they’re one of the OEM leaders in variable-thickness clubface design. So Cobra went back to the drawing board, and what they came up with is a material they call “Venollum.” It’s not a “new metal” per se – they didn’t just discover a Venollum mine in Carlsbad or anything- it’s just an alloy of magnesium, aluminum, zinc, and zirconium that’s never been used in golf clubs.Ĭobra is also touting their E9 Bio Cell face, which is machined to variable thicknesses across the face for maximum ball speeds.
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Drivers with large patches of carbon composite tend to sound dull, almost like there’s a crack somewhere that’s muting the vibrations. But carbon composite always had a unsurmountable drawback: it sounded terrible. After moving past steel, they’ve attacked the problems in several ways: using carbon composite crowns, shallowing the face, ever-thinner titanium walls, and thick sole plates, to name a few methods.Ĭobra, no stranger to exotic materials, was one of the last holdouts clinging to carbon fiber before they finally retired it a few years ago. Moving the center of gravity lower allows golfers to launch the ball higher, even on strikes low on the face. Cobra has introduced multi-material construction to go along with their E9 forged faces, which they say should give golfers maximum distance and straighter drives.įor a while now, the major OEMs have been in an arms race to lower the CoGs of their drivers. They’ve also gone all-in on offering an assortment of colors, moving past “ghosting” to personalization, surely thanks in no small part to Rickie Fowler’s fondness for orange.īut the changes this year aren’t just esthetic.
Cobra was one of the first OEMs to jump on the adjustable hosel bandwagon, which you can find in nearly all of the woods and hybrids they make.
My interest in Cobra waned a bit after their spinoff from Acushnet (and thus Titleist) and subsequent purchase by Puma, though I’m realizing now that was a mistake.
The S9-1 and S2 scream my name every time I walk by the used club rack at my local big-box stores, and the L5V and ZL Encore were some of the few composite drivers that didn’t make me want to stuff my ears with Play-Doh, but I had never actually put a Cobra golf club in my bag. Though I’ve been quietly admiring Cobra’s recent woods from afar, I didn’t expect a whole lot from the Bio Cell+ driver when I signed on to do this review.
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