Cobra L4_V Driver

Cobra L4V-M Men’s Driver

Cobra’s new L4-V Driver uses an ultra lightweight carbon composite crown and sole, along with tungsten backweighting to maximize moment of intertia and launch. We’ve seen drivers with carbon crowns before, but this is the first I can recall that has the carbon sole. It looks to me as though it has a sole plate, much like the old “real” woods would have a brass sole plate inserted.

The driver is at the maximum size permitted by the USGA and features what Cobra calls a “Dual Rhombus Face Technology” that’s supposed to offer a consistent .830 COR across the entire face.

What I find most intriguing about the driver, though, is that it comes in “flavors”, designed specifically for people with high, low and medium swing speeds. This certainly is a better way of classifying things than the usual Stiff, Regular and Senior flex. Every guy thinks he can play a stiff flex, regardless of the actual truth of the matter. Then there’s the additional difficulty presented by the fact that stiff, regular and senior don’t really mean anything. One manufacturer’s stiff is another’s regular. Specifying the appropriate swing speeds may help people better select a correct driver.