Multi-material head designs are clearly all the rage in Carlsbad, California, the spirtual home of golf technolgy. However, unlike neighbours Callaway and Taylor Made, Cobra has selected aluminium bronze for the heavy backweight which lowers the centre-of-gravity and promotes and promoted airborne flight from their latest titanium driver. Most novel is the progressive face-depth which varies through the range of drivers, with the Tour (7.5- and 9.5-degree) lofts having deeper faces, for a more penetrating flight, and less offset for more workability. But, ideal for slicers will be the offset version, available in 9.5- and 10.5-degrees whose shallower face when combined with the offset should actively promote some right-to-left action.

Meanwhile the Gravity Back irons feature a similar progressive backweight system designed using a computer to optimize the inertia (the resistance to twisting at impact) that the face of an iron displays. The computer calculates the ideal point of weighting according to the loft and shaft-length of each iron which naturally varies throughout the set.

Price: Drivers £275; irons from £443 (for a set of eight)
Contact: 01480 301114

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