Cobra S9 Driver

Number names, used in sports cars, fighter jets and golf clubs, hint at calculated awesomeness, but what do they mean? In a set of irons, the metal name is typically its component makeup: 17-4 stainless steel is 17 percent chromium and 4 percent nickel; 6-4 titanium is 6 percent aluminum [...]

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Although the rash of promotions offering free fairway woods with the purchase of a new driver signaled some measure of desperation in the golf industry, it might have been a suggestion that the appeal of the fairway wood has been waning, and anything to prop up interest (including giving them away) [...]

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Imagine pulling three similar-looking drivers off the rack at a golf shop. You waggle them a bit to get a sense of feel. You flick at the heads to hear how they sound, and perhaps you hit a few balls into a net. They feel so similar that you can’t decide which [...]

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Compression is a ball’s resistance to deformation at impact. But companies measure it in so many ways “that there is no industry standard,” says Bill Morgan, senior vice president of golf ball R&D at Titleist. Compression is important for designers because it dictates speed and feel. Morgan says the 2009 version of [...]

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High moment of inertia (the tendency for a clubhead to remain stable on off-center hits) has been a buzz phrase for drivers, but does high MOI play a role in irons as well?
“High,” of course, is relative. Ping’s old Eye2 irons, introduced in 1983, featured an above average MOI (about 2,600 grams-centimeters [...]

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