Cobra augments its King family of irons with the addition of the King Tour, CB and MB aimed at advanced players who value feel, feedback and shot-shaping ability.
All three new models are crafted from 1025 carbon steel using Cobra’s five-step forging process that offers more precise shaping, flatter clubfaces, tighter weight tolerances, improved consistency of loft, lies and face thickness and significantly enhanced soft feel at impact.
“The five-step forging process is critical to both the feel produced at impact by each of our new King irons as well the consistency of performance,” said Tom Olsavsky, vice president of R&D for Cobra Golf. “Players who desire the feel of forged want a soft sensation at impact rather than one that’s overly crisp, and our process delivers the desired sensation. But forgings can also be lacking in consistency due to the challenges involved in the forging process, all of which we’ve improved on by creating forged irons with superior precision from clubhead to clubhead. Players who favor forged irons now have the option to enjoy all the benefits of a forging with the consistency normally associated with cast products.”
The King CB and MB irons ($1,199 per seven-piece set) feature the most compact shapes in the King lineup and are built with attributes better players typically desire, including thinner toplines, minimal offset for control, thinner soles for precise turf interaction and shorter blade lengths for enhanced shot-shaping ability.
The CB irons, having a more forgiving cavity-back shape with slightly more offset, and the traditional MB muscle back offer players a variety of customizable set configurations to fit their gapping and aesthetic preferences.
The King Tour irons ($1,299 per seven-piece set) blend soft feel and playability with enhanced distance and forgiveness. Unlike the CB and MB irons, which are one-piece forgings, the Tour irons feature an aluminum medallion and a TPU insert in the back cavity, both of which dampen vibration for a more pleasing sound and feel at impact. Undercuts in the back cavity of each iron allow weight to be repositioned from high center to lower center and heel and toe areas of the clubhead, creating improved launch conditions and more forgiveness on off-center hits. These cavities progress from deeper in the long irons for enhanced stability, to shallower in the short irons for enhanced control.
The Tour model also features 2-degree stronger lofts than the CB and MB irons to produce more explosive distance off the face.
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