 Tuned just for you (if you fit the mold) 25 of 25 people found this review helpful.
Strengths: Shafts tuned to a specific swing speed should help provide longer drives.
Weaknesses: Cobra forces you to the F/Speed to get a closed face.
Comments:
There are three main flavors of Speed drivers:
- X/Speed: 104+ mph swing speed, square face
- F/Speed: 87-108 mph swing speed, 2-3 degrees closed face
- M/Speed: 76-97 mph mph swing speed, offset 3.5 degree closed face
There are stiff and regular shaft choices.
The sell point here is that Cobra has optimized the shaft/clubhead combination for three types of golfers. Simply determine your swing speed, and you know which Speed driver you need to get. If it were only that easy. Here's my main gripe off the bat. My swing speed is right around 100mph which indicates I should get an F/Speed driver. BUT, I don't want a closed face. Basically, if you want to get a square face driver, you need to get an X/Speed. From a marketing standpoint, this makes sense for Cobra since slicing is probably the single biggest swing fault among the general population so they figure that they're doing the golfing masses a favor. But what if you want to fix your swing to eliminate your slice and not want to rely on a closed face? Tough luck.
Performance
With that said, I took an F/Speed and my main gripe aside, this is a very, very nice club. I hit a lot of draws which is a very good thing for me so the closed face is doing its job. Still, I kept thinking that it's the club that's doing this and not my swing, and that bugs me just a little bit.
My observation from using this club is that it's quite long. I currently rotate between a Cobra SZ460 and a Tour Edge J-Max driver and I felt that the Speed driver was slightly longer than both these clubs. The club is also very forgiving and my mis-hits still traveled in the general direction I aimed if I had the clubface square at impact. The Speed driver did not help if you make contact with the ball with the clubface is open. That still resulted in a wicked slice or a push, but then again, no club will help with that. The club can only do so much; we still have to execute. Golf really wouldn't be fun and challenging otherwise, right?
Features
The Speed driver improves upon the design of its predecessor. The Speed driver still has dual steel inserts placed lower, further back, and wider apart. This lowers and pushes back the club's center of gravity even more to create a higher launch angle and low-spin ball flight. This means optimal launch and carry = greater distance. Further lowering and pushing back the club's CG is a crown design that slants back and doesn't bulge as much as most other 460cc drivers. If all this wasn't enough, there are those aforementioned crown indents.
The Speed drivers have their inserts wider apart as well. Pushing the inserts wider apart helps increase the club's moment of inertia (MOI) which helps resist twisting if you don't hit the center of the clubface. This weight repositioning was made possible by the weight savings from using 6-4 Titanium on the face and body.
Cobra claims that the Speed driver currently has the largest clubface today. One look at this driver and you'll have to agree with them. With this huge clubface is what Cobra calls milled rhombus L-cup or MLRC technology which is supposed to promote forgiveness and allow for a hotter face across a greater portion of the clubface. I don't care what they call it, but this is one of the easiest drivers I've ever hit.
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First, like many other aspiring golfers, I have tried several different brands and models of drivers. The only thing that has seperated these drivers for me was two catagories, drivers that hook and drivers that don't. I never found that driver that really increased my distance that extra 20-30yds that other reviewers had sited for other various brands / models. I usually like to up grade the year after a model launches based on reduced prices, but it has usually been for forgiveness as the clubhead sizes have increased. My time line for drivers has gone Wal-Mart Brand, Original Launcher, Titleist 975-LFE, TM R5. I have not increased distance, except maybe from my Wal-Mart starter. I never drive the ball past my regular distances at my home course....until now. WOW! Finally an up-grade that goes beyond forgiveness. I have driven par 4's at my home course that I was usually 30-50yds short. The face is super huge and just absolutely bombs it! I am truly looking at breaking 70 this year b/c I am not spraying shots out of bounds and as stated earlier, they are bombs. I am very pleased with this club and even more pleased that this self proclaimed cheapskate stole it off of ebay for only $125 barely used. Do yourself a favor and just try one of these jewels. I know that the closed / slightly closed faces can scare you away, but try it! I will admit, I had to adjust from my old set up for my previous drivers to avoid the hook, but when I finally did it, best results of my golf career. I just can't say enough about this club and how it has changed my approach. On a side note, the reverse stitch cobra hats are sweet. If you suffer from a frankenstein shaped head like me, this hat actually fits, unlike other golf hats that look like a beanie on my head! Two thumbs up to cobra for this club, very forgiving and long without the new pancake look!
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