Cobra 3-D Printed putters (2024)

Gear: Cobra 3D Printed putters (2024)Worth: $349 every with KBS CT Tour 120 shaft and SuperStroke Zenergy Pistol 1.0 gripSpecs: Carbon fiber crown with 304 stainless-steel physique, milled 6061 aerospace grade aluminum face insert and 3D-printed options.Accessible: February 23

Who it’s For: Golfers who need further stability and trendy design with enhanced alignment options.

The Skinny: By 3D printing a good portion of the physique, Cobra designers can radically shift weight to reinforce efficiency whereas the variable-loft face encourages a extra constant roll.

The Deep Dive: If you make a brand new golf membership, whether or not it’s a driver, a wedge or perhaps a putter, one of many greatest challenges is to control weight and take away it from locations the place it doesn’t do something to areas when it may enhance efficiency. As a lot as any model within the trade, Cobra has aggressively used unique supplies, not simply because they’re cool, however as a result of issues like carbon fiber, tungsten and different issues other than stainless-steel could make golf equipment carry out higher.

In 2021, Cobra launched its first 3D Printed putters, taking the idea of unique supplies to an entire new stage. Now, Cobra is releasing an up to date household of 3D Printed putters.

Like the primary era of 3D Printed putters, the brand new choices are aggressively formed and made to be ultra-stable on mis-hits to maintain putts you hit outdoors the candy spot rolling in your supposed line.

At first look, you will note a carbon fiber crown and a four-level face that’s created from 6061 aircraft-grade aluminum, an exceptionally gentle materials. Made in partnership with L.A. Golf, the highest portion of the hitting space has 4 levels of loft, however every part drops in loft by 1 diploma because the hitting space lowers, leaving the underside with simply 1 diploma of loft. The concept is to create a constant quantity of loft on each putt, so in case your arms are ahead on one stroke, which might naturally de-loft the face, the 4 levels of loft on the highest may also help to counteract it. In case you swing up right into a putt, which might add loft, the lower-lofted backside of the face accommodates that sort of stroke.

That’s what you see, however trying nearer on the physique of the 3D Printed putters reveals what makes them distinctive. Every head has a darkish nylon space within the heart that’s made utilizing 3D-printed nylon that’s formed right into a lattice. This method permits designers to make shapes and constructions that would not be produced by forging or milling, whereas saving weight. The nylon additionally absorbs vibrations to enhance sound and really feel.

The remainder of the physique of the 3D Printed putters is made utilizing metal-injection molded (MIM) 304 stainless-steel.

The results of choosing all these high-tech supplies is Cobra eliminated weight from the highest, center and face of the 3D Printed putters and shifted extra of it to the again within the heel and toe areas, which boosts the second of inertia (MOI) and helps the putters resist twisting on off-center strikes.

On the underside of every membership are weight ports that may maintain weight screws starting from 5 grams as much as 25 grams. Customized fitters will have the ability to use these weights to regulate the swing weight of every putter primarily based on the size that’s splendid for particular gamers.

The 3D Printed putters can be found in three completely different head types, together with the high-MOI Agera, the smaller Agera RS, the fang-style SuperNova and the blade-style GrandSport 35.