bassing33
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It looks super busy, but Cobra has been down that road before and with most busy looking drivers, I forget about the looks after a few swings. The one thing that gets lost on me, mostly because I've become numb to it, is the aerodynamic talk. For the most part, companies have been pushing the faster & more efficient aerodynamic shape for some years now, and at the end of the day, that is something for me that is hard to quantify. In a way I blame PING for that when they first brought out the turbulators, and then other companies have done their own twists on fins, speed steps, micro vortex generators(or Michael Vrska Generators). This one kind of looks like a mashup of several designs, both within the walls and outside of Cobra. But one thing that we have come to know and expect is that Cobra R&D has push a lot of tech in to a head.
I'm a fan of the 1 head design and then tweaking the profile by loft. I remember Callaway doing that with the V series, and I thought that was relatively smart. It should help on multiple facets, between customer confusion and eliminating some SKUs on the back end.
I have wondered a lot about the aerodynamic claims as well. In a lot of the tests I've seen online with clubs that have something like this the speeds seem relatively the same. Then I got to thinking... What if it was significantly slower without them? Weight distribution, CG and aerodynamics are all give and take so maybe to keep the speed where they want and the CG where they want the Aero features are needed, not to increase necessarily but to counter other design elements that are a hinderance to speed.