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MyGolfSpy Owner, Adam Beach and Director of Club Testing, Sam Robinson were featured on Episode 5 of Wilson’s Driver vs. Driver 2. As guest judges, they hit each of the 4 remaining designs and joined Jeremy Roenick and Rick Shiels in providing feedback on the performance.
If you haven’t done so already, there’s still time to enter our Driver vs. Driver contest. And you’ll definitely want to watch today’s video for an opportunity to win something truly special…in a matter of speaking.
Watch as Adam and Sam discuss the Wilson Golf brand, their experience on Driver vs. Driver, and which club they think has the best shot at winning and coming to retail.
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NOVEMBER 12-15 2018 Las Vegas Training Class
As you probably know, we have released several training classes in Las Vegas, NV for November 2018 and many dates in 2019. Per high demand and popular request, these spots will go extremely quickly.
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Terry Whin-Yates is a 3rd Generation Locksmith with over 30+ years of locksmithing experience and a BA (Hons) in Criminology. I will teach you how to rekey and pick locks like a Professional Locksmith. This is a Hands-On Locksmith Class covering basic to advanced Lock Picking Methods and Techniques. Learning how to pick open locks starts with learning the basic to advanced methods of lock picking. The locksmith student will learn the various methods of picking open a lock. I have been teaching locksmith, military and police for over 30 years how to pick open deadbolts, key-in-knob, padlocks, filing cabinets and “pick resistant” and “pick proof” locks. The lock picking class will cover the basic methods are as “Rake,” “Feel” and “Rake and Feel” lock picking methods to advanced lock picking techniques to open locks with mushroom, spool, and spiral pins. We will cover and discuss:
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All Lock Picking Students will get access to my five (5) online video on Picking Locks, Using Plug Spinners, etc. and my new book. FREE for all students! As an added bonus you will get a copy of my new book “Penetration Expert: ”How to be a Professional Lock Picker” for FREE and access to Five (5) or my Private On-line Lock Picking Videos. Important Note: All students must pass a Criminal Records Check / Security Clearance from your local Police Force.
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Starting tonight at 9 PM on the Golf Channel, Wilson Golf’s Driver vs. Driver 2 is about to get interesting.
Very interesting.
Driver vs. Driver 2 debuted a month ago with 13 contestants and their driver designs. That list has since been whittled down to just four: Cortex, Magnus, Roswell, and Launch Pad. Tonight’s episode takes on a unique MyGolfSpy-focused tilt, as MGS owner/sensei Adam Beach and MGS Director of Testing Sam Robinson will be featured judges as they test, critique and give their #Datacratic take on the the final four.
And if you tune in, there’ll be a little something-something in it for you (A Year’s Supply Of Wilson Golf Balls).
Starting tonight (Golf Channel, 9 PM Eastern), and running through the November 13th finale of Driver vs. Driver 2, MyGolfSpy and Wilson Staff are offering you chances to win some pretty cool stuff, including the winning driver itself. All you have to do is watch.
HOW IT WORKS:
So it’s watch, listen and respond.
And what do we have as prizes? The Episode 5 winner will receive a year’s supply (6 dozen) Wilson Staff golf balls, the Episode 6 winner gets a customized, stamped Wilson Staff PMP wedge and for the finale, Episode 7, the winner will receive the winning driver from Driver vs. Driver 2.
This contest is open to anyone in the US or Canada who watches the last three episodes of Driver Vs. Driver 2.
So for tonight’s episode, our questions come straight outta MyGolfSpy:
Nail those two, and you could wind up with a year’s supply of Wilson Golf Balls.
Remember, you’ll have to watch tonight’s episode of Driver vs. Driver 2 to find the answers, and to get a close up look at how GolfSpies test and evaluate golf equipment. As always, it’s #datacratic.
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Finding an active indoor activity can be challenging as the days get shorter and the temperature drops. This simple gross motor activity from Lisa will keep your little ones engaged and busy!
I love using seasons and themes as a basis for learning in our home. September is one of my favorite months for all the different possibilities it has to offer.
This month our focus is all about apples in our home. I came up with a fun gross motor activity by using painters’ tape from our garage and apples from the fridge.
This activity is perfect for inside and has a quick and easy setup, which is always a win in my books!
To being with, I taped off a tree trunk using the painters’ tape in a spacious area of our house that would allow for a variety of movement.
I extended the tree by taping off branches in a variety of directions. On each end of the branches, I placed apples for my son to pick.
Before we started, I explained to him that he could use his basket to pick all the apples off the branches. To do this, we would need to come up with some fun movements and actions to pick the apples.
I love giving children the independence in their learning and play. He was pretty excited to offer suggestions too!
He first decided that he wanted to jump on two feet to pick his apples.
When he reached his basket, I asked him to balance on each branch while he picked an apple and put it in his basket.
He loved the challenge of making sure he didn’t fall off the branches!
After he had picked all his apples, he then decided that he would like to try jumping on just one foot to his basket.
Of all the different actions we tried, this was his most challenging.
We also tried movements such as walking backward to the branches and straddling the tape line on the trunk.
We tried walking sideways crisscrossing one foot over the other.
Another fun move was jumping back and forth from each branch, making sure that we stayed on the line of tape.
This movement was his favorite!
During the activity, I also took the opportunity to incorporate a few other learning activities.
These activities reinforced skills he has developed or is currently working on developing. For example, I had him count the number of apples out loud while he was picking.
I also utilized our fine motor skills and had him place the apples back on the tip of the branches when he finished. This was an enjoyable fine motor activity for him!
If you do not have apples on hand, you could use leaves that you collect on a nature walk. A great way to extend the fun and learning from another activity!
Glancing at the Cobra F9 SPEEDBACK Fairway, two things are nearly impossible to miss.
First is its bold yellow paint (also available in avalanche) that matches the driver. Second is Cobra’s now signature CNC milled face. F9 is the first time Cobra has offered a milled face fairway. The company says the added precision nets 2.5 MPH of ball speed compared to hand polished faces.
That’s all well and good because everybody wants distance, but with fairway woods, golfers list being easy to hit and accuracy as the things they’re looking for most (though I bet most still buy the one with which they hit the longest ball).
Cobra believes it can address those desires – particularly the easy to hit thing – with its Baffler rails. The rails are designed to provide better turf interaction for more head speed at impact. Speaking from more experience than I’d care to admit, if you’re the kind of golfer who finds himself off the fairway from time to time, I don’t think there’s a better design for bad lies. It works just fine from short grass and the tee as well, but it’s one hell of a get out of trouble club.
With the F9 SPEEDBACK, Cobra moved the 15-gram tungsten weight to sit between the rails. That helps push the center of gravity down, making it easier to launch the ball into the air. For the most part, turf interaction with a fairway wood takes place near the front of the head, so the weight shouldn’t interfere, but just in case, Cobra gave it a little bit of a fin to help you get through the turf when you stick the club in a bit deeper in the ground than expected.
Additional weight is saved via an ultralight carbon fiber crown, while the PWR Ridge design (also found in the driver) stiffens the crown prevent energy loss at impact.
While you probably shouldn’t expect a ton of additional head speed because of it, as with the driver, the F9 SPEEDBACK fairway features Cobra’s 360° Aero polymer crown and titanium sole trips to help reduce aerodynamic drag.
The standard F9 SPEEDBACK Fairway is available in a 3-4 (14.5° in the neutral position, adjustable from 13° to 16°), 4-6 (18.5° in the neutral, adjustable from 17°-20°), and 7-8 (22.5° in the neutral position, adjustable from 21°-24°) models in both Yellow and Avalanche colorways. Cobra may add a lower lofted option in the future as Bryson DeChambeau prefers the larger head, but needs less loft.
Stock shafts include the UST Helium 60 (R,L), and the Fujikura ATMOS Blue 7 (R,S).
The stock grip is a Cobra Connect enabled Lamkin Crossline.
Players looking for a compact fairway wood – possibly THE most compact fairway wood on the market – should consider the F9 SPEEDBACK Tour. While Cobra has changed the nomenclature a bit, the Tour is the direct replacement for the F8+ fairway.
There’s not a ton of competition in this space. Whether you know it or not, Cobra owns the compact front CG fairway wood space, and the F9 SPEEDBACK TOUR only increases the advantage.
That’s not to say compact is for everybody; it isn’t. The smaller footprint and enhanced workability come at the expense of forgiveness, but Cobra believes that for strong fairway wood players, front CG is better. If you’re not a strong fairway wood player, or need help generating spin, the standard model is almost certainly a better fit.
As a guy who sometimes feels stuck between a 5-wood and a 2-hybrid, the compact Tour design gives me a look I like with more forgiveness than a hybrid offers. Better players may appreciate having a true 13.5° option as well. Average golfers will likely appreciate the forgiveness of the standard model.
The F9 SPEEDBACK Tour offers the same features (Baffler Rails, PWR Ridge Crown, and CNC milled face) as the standard model, but the milling pattern itself is more traditional. The circular milled pattern common to the driver and standard fairway looks wonky with scorelines. Tour guys (Rickie) wanted scorelines, so Cobra went with a simple horizontal milling pattern. The consistency and speed benefits are the same, however.
Unlike the driver and standard fairway, there’s no yellow option for the F9 SPEEDBACK Tour. As they say, you can have it in any color you want, so long as it’s black, or in this case, black on black. A low glare leading section is paired with a glossy black crown.
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The F9 SPEEDBACK Tour Fairway is available in a 3-4 (13.5° in the neutral position, adjustable from 12° to 15°), and 4-5 (17.5° in the neutral, adjustable from 16°-19°) models. The 4-5 is available in RH only.
The stock shaft is the Project X HZRDUS Smoke 70 (S,X).
The stock grip is a Cobra Connect enabled Lamkin Crossline.
Retail price for the KING F9 SPEEDBACK Fairway Wood is $269. Availability begins January 18th, 2019.
For more information, visit Cobragolf.com.
Inside the walls of Cobra, the KING F9 SPEEDBACK iron project was referred to by its codename.
Bruce Lee.
Why? According to Cobra’s VP of R&D, Tom Olsavsky, “because he kicks ass.” The new irons? They kick ass too.
Truth be told, I haven’t been the biggest fan of Cobra’s more recent game improvement irons, but why dwell on the past when this time around things are different? As with the driver, the shape of the F9 SPEEDBACK irons is purposeful, though unconventional It’s a design that may prove to be polarizing, but as with the driver, I love that Cobra is taking a risk on something different that’s not just for show.
What you’ll likely notice are boxier heel and toe regions that house a significant amount of tungsten. Very early prototypes featured F7 driver weights welded to the heel and toe portions of the iron. It turns out, F9 SPEEDBACK wasn’t the most radical design on the table. The final version is more conventional than it could have been, but Cobra is still banking that its F golfers (80% have handicaps above 10) are willing to buy into something that looks a little different because of the improved performance it delivers.
F9 SPEEDBACK is Cobra’s attempt to resolve a critical flaw with most distance irons on the market today. They may be long, but despite manufacturer claims to the contrary, they’re not particular forgiving. I suppose the converse is true for many game-improvement designs. They’re forgiving, but in the grand scheme of things, they’re often not among the longest. Cobra’s position more or less holds true when you consider MOI and Sweet Area. Mizuno’s JPX919 Hot Metal is good, and you can make a case for PING G700, but that one has a blade length that’s longer than most.
Ultimately what Cobra was seeking to create with the F9 SPEEDBACK is an iron that’s truly long, truly forgiving, and doesn’t rely on an overly long blade to make it happen. If some other things have to look a little bit different for that to work, so be it.
Some of the things packed into the F9 irons are typical of what you’d expect from Cobra in this category. Progressive hosel lengths that are shorter in the long irons keep CG low. Longer hosels in the scoring irons raise CG to help generate a penetrating flight with more spin. It’s all part of Cobra’s TechFlo design strategy.
What is new is the shape. It’s boxy, and I need to be clear about this point, boxy isn’t the same as clunky, and I’m not calling F9 a bag full of shovels either. It’ good boxy – if that makes sense. Typically flowing regions, specifically, the low heel and toe regions have been squared off considerably. That allowed Cobra to place a massive amount of tungsten (image below) in those areas (33-grams of tungsten in the 7-iron alone). That gets you a huge boost in inertia without having to make the club any larger, but yeah, it does look a little different.
The second unusual detail is the F9’s two-tiered SPEEDBACK Sole. Olsavsky calls it a weight belt, but what we’re talking about is a wide sole that’s used to push weight lower and deeper into the head to create higher launch. By way of comparison, center of gravity locations are significantly lower than F8 in the longer irons and appreciably higher in the scoring clubs. That extra mass has everything to do with controlling trajectory.
We’ve heard this part of the story before and because of that wide soles aren’t usually particularly noteworthy. With the F9 SPEEDBACK, however, there’s a bit more to it. The SPEEDBACK sole features a narrower, raised center section that’s dramatically thinner than the total sole width. It’s designed to improve turf interaction, which generally isn’t the strength of wide sole irons. My experience with the irons suggests it actually works. It gets through grass nicely and plays narrower than its footprint.
Another small tweak to the head design offers a huge improvement visually – at least I think so. Cobra added a little bit of camber to the topline. It’s a preference thing, but the last several generations of Cobra GI irons offered exceedingly flat, blunt toplines. Adding a bit of radius makes it appear significantly smaller at address. It’s much easier on the eyes though I’d be remiss not to mention that the wide sole design does put a bit of the backcavity in view from the 4 to the 7-iron. Once you get into the true scoring clubs that stuff disappears and the irons themselves look a bit more conventional from all angles.
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PWRSHELL is Cobra Speak for its speed-boosting face technology. PWRSHELL has been a part of several generations of Cobra iron face stories, but as with most anything else in golf, it continues to evolve.
Like any good face technology, it’s thin (1.8mm at its thinnest point). Cobra has added a variation of its E9 technology to further increase speed on off-center hits. Engineers also thinned and extended the return – the lower part of the face that gets welded to the body – deeper into the body itself. It’s not a true cupface design, but the principle is similar to slot designs. It helps generate more face flex and boosts ball speeds particularly on low face shots.
In the 4-7 irons, Cobra uses a 3-piece insert (TPU, acrylic foam, and aluminum badge) to help dampen vibration without slowing down the face. Manufacturers are always trying to make cast, multi-piece irons feel more like forgings. While it’s unlikely you’ll mistake the two, Cobra says F9 offers best in class feel. It’s certainly not a KING CB/MB, but it’s good for what it is.
Cobra’s Progressive Spin Technology carries on with F9 as well. It’s not so much technology as it is a means to explain that different irons within the set have different grooves. The 4-7 irons use V-grooves to reduce spin and maximize distance. The 8-PW have U-grooves for better control and accuracy, while the GW and SW leverage more tightly spaced wedge grooves for more spin around the green. Cobra chose not to offer a lob wedge for the F9 SPEEDBACK irons. They don’t sell enough of the high lofted set wedges to justify making them. Other than guys who just want all their clubs to look the same, I can’t come up with a single justification for using a set lob wedge anyway.
It’s also worth pointing out that the marking on the clubface now reads Milled Face instead of Forged. Cobra admits some responsibility in taking part in what has truly become one of the industry’s more misleading trends. A good number of companies are welding forged faces to cast bodies, and stamping the word Forged on the body. Golfer’s love forged, but the practice is inherently dishonest. What’s a little white lie in the interest of selling a few more clubs, right? Cobra is still using a forged face, but the company is making an effort to be more transparent about the finer points.
From a performance perspective, despite higher inertia (long iron MOI is 10% higher than F8), in Cobra’s internal testing, the F9 SPEEDEBACK was significantly longer than competitive offerings from Callaway, TaylorMade, and PING. Generally, the brands doing the testing come ahead out in internal testing, and it hasn’t tested against any of its competitors’ 2019 stuff, but it has enough of a cushion that it doesn’t think anyone will offer a longer game improvement next season.
Whether or not you should be overly concerned about a few yards worth of iron distance is another conversation entirely, but having spent some time on the course with them, I can tell you that they’re incredibly easy to hit and distance isn’t going to be an issue. It’s easily my favorite Cobra game-improvement iron in the close to a decade since I started working for MyGolfSpy.
This is one of those things that most consumers don’t think about, and many probably don’t care about, but I believe you should. In this spot in the market, a good number of the offerings aren’t chrome plated because it saves the manufactures a little bit of money. Mizuno chromes, Titleist does, PING’s recent offerings have been plated, and now Cobra does to. Callaway and TaylorMade, what are you waiting for?
The market leaders are sacrificing quality to save a buck, and because of it, the best-selling products on the market show wear much more quickly than they should. It’s not a small thing. For what irons cost, every damn set on the market should offer a durable finish. It’s nice to see Cobra making an effort to raise the quality of its product and give you a bit more for your money.
And speaking of cost-cutting, it’s not uncommon for game-improvement designs to come stock with lightweight, made-for shafts. Like nearly everyone else, Cobra has done that in the past, but – again, raising the quality of its product – is using the KBS Tour 90 as the stock steel offerings.
The graphite offering is still a made for (Fujikura ATMOS). Cobra is far from alone here, and the typical lightweight graphite player isn’t likely to notice much of a difference.
Retail price for a stock 7-piece set (5-GW) of Cobra F9 SPEEDBACK Irons is $799 steel and $899 graphite. A 4-iron and SW are available through custom. A graphite Combo set, which includes a 5H and 6-GW is $899. A combo steel set with the same set makeup is also available through custom.
It shouldn’t come as any surprise that Cobra is offering a ONE Length version of the F9 Speedback iron. While ONE Length sales dipped a bit in 2018, ONE Length sill accounted for 40% of Cobra iron sales. In the two weeks following Bryson DeChambeau’s win at the Dell Technologies Championship, Cobra sold 150 sets of ONE Length through its website alone.
As we’ve said before, ONE Length isn’t for everyone, but there’s a market for it, and if Bryson continues to play well (I think he’s going to win a Major next year), interest will continue to grow. For now – and with all due respect to Edel and Sterling – Cobra has the mainstream market cornered, though it wouldn’t surprise me to see a legitimate competitor enter the fray.
Apart from the signature Bryson blue accents and the necessary differences in individual headweights, the ONE Length offering is basically the same as the variable length option. The one notable difference is that sole widths on the long irons are slightly wider to promote higher launch.
Lower than desirable launch in the long irons has been the biggest hurdle for slower speed players looking to switch to ONE Length. The wider blade should help with that – as should some changes to Cobra’s shaft strategy (see below) – but if that doesn’t alleviate your concerns, remember that Cobra offers a ONE Length utility and ONE Length hybrids. Either of those could potentially resolve any long iron launch issues.
Call it a product of the ONE Length learning process; Cobra has updated its progressive lie angle strategy. The long irons are more upright, which contributes to higher trajectories, while wedge lie angles have been flattened for a flatter, straighter trajectory.
As with the variable length version, Cobra will offer real deal KBS shafts in the F9 SPEEDBACK ONE Length option. Instead of using a single shaft model, Cobra has chosen a progressive weight strategy with KBS Tour offerings. The 4-6 irons are outfitted with KBS Tour 80 shafts. The 7-9 use the KBS Tour 90, while the PW-SW will come with KBS Wedge shafts (115g).
It’s similar to an AMT/AWT strategy (True Temper’s AMT White is stock in the Forged Tec ONE Length). The idea is to leverage lighter-weight shafts in the long irons to generate more speed and higher flight, and heavier shafts to create a more penetrating flight in the scoring irons.
Retail price for a stock 7-piece set (5-GW) of Cobra F9 SPEEDBACK ONE Length Irons is $799 steel and $899 graphite. A 4-iron and SW are available through custom. A graphite Combo set, which includes a 5H and 6-GW is $899. A combo steel set with the same set makeup is available through custom. Left-handed is also available through custom.
Last season Cobra put Cobra Connect enabled grips on all of its irons and included Arccos sensors for the rest of your clubs with every iron set purchased. The adoption rate for the Arccos powered offering was about 50%, and while that’s pretty damn good, it also meant that 50% of sensors went unused, and that’s just plain wasteful.
This year, the deal is the same…mostly. The stock grip is still a Cobra Connected embedded Lamkin Crossline grip. Cobra will also still provide free Arccos-embedded grips or Arccos sensors for the rest of your non-Cobra clubs, and it will still do all of it entirely free of charge. The only ripple is that this time around, you have to ask for them.
Cobra wants you to take advantage of the Cobra Connect platform, but it doesn’t want to effectively throw sensors away if you’re not going to use them – and you should use them, but that’s just my 2 cents.
It’s not any huge secret that there isn’t a ton of innovation in the hybrid category, so to Cobra’s credit, it’s not trying to oversell what it’s done with the KING F9 SPEEDBACK hybrids. There’s not a huge tech story here. They’re designed to replace difficult to hit long irons, and they’re bigger than the F8 version, and that’s mostly the whole of it.
The KING OS hybrid turned out to be popular, even with the better players inside Cobra, so they decided to size the F9 SPEEDBACK version between the F8 and the OS. It’s 10% larger than last year’s model. Going bigger allows for a flatter leading edge and a bit better alignment at address.
A ONE Length version of the hybrid is also available. It shares the same basic design as the variable length model, albeit with a shorter shaft and a heavier head. The main point of emphasis Cobra would like to convey – and I’m doing it because I agree – is that ONE Length hybrids aren’t strictly for golfers who play single length irons.
They have the potential to work for anyone who struggles with long irons or variable length hybrids. It may take a bit of adjustment to get used to the look of a hybrid head on a short shaft, but if you can do it, you should find it scarily easy to hit. I’ve added it to the list of potential solutions to my struggles with a 5-iron.
Unfortunately, that’s becoming a winter project as we seem to have mostly skipped fall here in the northeast this year. I digress…and miserably so.
Like the F8, the SPEEDBACK F9 hybrids aren’t adjustable but will be offered in discrete lofts of 17°, 19°, 21°, and 24°. Women’s models are available in 22°, 25°, 28°, and 31°.
ONE Length hybrids are available in 19°, 21°, and 24°.
The stock shaft is a 70-gram Fujikura ATMOS Black in stiff, regular, or lite flex. The women’s model is 60-grams in ladies flex. Cobra has brought the specs of the shaft closer to the aftermarket version but concedes it’s technically a made for. Shaft upgrades are available. Price differs by model.
The stock grip is a Cobra Connect enabled Lamkin Crossline.
Retail price is $219.
Retail availability for KING F9 SPEEDBACK irons and Hybrids begins January 18th, 2019.
For more information about, visit CobraGolf.com.
