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Rickie Fowler made a nice splash ahead of the PGA Championship with a runner-up finish in the Truist Championship at Quail Hollow. His final-round 65 showed off some exceptional iron play down the stretch that nearly culminated in Fowler’s first victory in three years.
Fowler’s favorite Cobra King Tour-style irons have a new thing going for them – 3D printing. Using CDP (ceramic direct production), Cobra is able to replicate the familiar King Tour shape and center-of-gravity characteristics that Fowler trusts at address while building in performance gains inside.
Fowler was heavily involved in the testing process, offering feedback on the design, feel and performance of his custom 3DP Tour irons. Each iron is built layer by layer, allowing Cobra to build a complex internal lattice structure that isn’t possible to do with traditional forging or casting.
“I’ve always been a golf nerd and equipment nerd, so I like knowing and having that understanding,” Fowler said earlier in 2026.
Rickie Fowler sports his Cobra 3DP Tour irons at the PGA Championship at Aronimink.
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“I’ve done a lot of testing with them, with early heads, getting feedback, feel, flight, testing them up against where I was club-wise. And then kind of seeing the capabilities of what we could do if we mess with moving weight around – whether it was side to side, top to bottom – seeing where we either saw a difference or didn’t.”
The 3D printing process allows Cobra to do different things for different players, even blending different set elements to transition from more forgiveness in the longer irons to more control in the scoring irons while maintaining the same look and feel through the bag.
That’s why Cobra appeals to Max Homa, who has played the same irons for nearly two decades. Homa worked with Cobra to build a customized set of 3D-printed MB irons to precisely replicate his shape and preferences.
“Irons are my game,” Homa told PGATour.com. “That’s how I succeed in golf. I’ve always been a good iron player. ... I was terrified to switch, and when I did, these are my favorite irons I’ve ever hit.”
The flexibility to build to preferred specs is what drew the LPGA’s Lexi Thompson to Cobra’s 3DP as well, creating irons with the unique shape she’s used going back to 2009. Cobra 3D-printed irons recreated the precise shape and interaction Thompson is comfortable with while enhancing it with modern tech features.
Brooks Koepka showed up at Aronimink looking for a new putter after reportedly snapping his during the final round at Myrtle Beach when he lost 2.5 strokes on the greens. He was spotted working with a TaylorMade’s Spider Tour V putter with a plumber’s neck – a slightly different-shaped version than the previous Spider model he had been using. GolfWRX reported that Koepka also tried out several Scotty Cameron heads similar to Cameron Young’s Phantom 9.5R.
Now that Koepka is an equipment free agent after his split with Srixon, the first change to his bag was a set of Vokey SM11 (48-10F, 52-12F, 56-10S) and WedgeWorks (60-08) wedges.
Justin Thomas hoped to mimic Young’s recent success by switching to the same Scotty Cameron Phantom 9.5R putter. “I want Cam Young’s putter,” Thomas said after his opening round at the Truist Championship, in which he also wore the same style shoes as Young. “I promise I’m not trying to copy everything you do, but I’m maybe trying to copy everything you do.”
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