Gear: Cobra King Tour Irons, $1,299 for KBS $-Taper 120 steel shafts or Lamkin Crossline grips
Specifications: Made from 1025 carbon steel, TPU insert, and a co-molded aluminum medallion
Available: Feb. 3
Who it’s for: Low scoring golfers who desire a soft-feeling, shot-shaping iron with a touch more forgiveness.
The Skinny An improved-player’s cavity back, the new King Tour irons feature a vibration-dampening inset to soften the feel and maintain the classic look that experienced golfers want.
The Deep Dive: Cobra’s Aerojet irons have a host of technologies and features that will allow golfers with higher handicaps to hit the ball further and straighter. These traits are not desirable by elite players. Golfers in their 70s need clubs that can amplify control and feel. They are known for their consistent, powerful swings. Most of them prefer a classic look in the address.
Cobra updated the King Tour irons with a new look that ticks all the boxes and adds a level of forgiveness golfers won’t find in muscleback blades.
Cobra King Tour irons are classic in appearance and address position. (David Dusek/Golfweek)
The address position shows that the King Tour irons have a slim topline, minimal offset, and a shorter blade length than previous King Tour MIM Irons.
The 2023 King Tour irons, like other clubs with better players, are forged. However, instead of forging the 1025 carbon steel once, it is necessary to forge the metal five times. Cobra stated that the five-step process increases precision, flattens the faces and improves the feel.
The King Tour’s black TPU insert at the back softens the feel and enhances the sound. (David Dusek/Golfweek)
The King Tour CB/MB irons are one-piece, which means the heads are made from only metal. To absorb vibrations, Cobra’s designers added a thermoplastic, polyurethane insert, and an aluminum co-molded badge, to the backs of the King Tour heads.
Computer-controlled milling creates the cavity-back shaping. Engineers were able to modify the undercuts and take extra material from the top of long irons to lower their center of gravity. This should make it easier to hit long iron shots higher. For enhanced control, the center of gravity slowly rises in the heads from the mid-irons to the scoring clubs.
Cobra King Tour irons have slightly stronger lofts. (David Dusek/Golfweek)
The King Tour lofts are slightly more powerful than those of the King CB or MB irons. The pitching wedge is 44 degrees, and the 5-iron is 25 degrees. Cobra did this in order to give the King Tour a little more power. However, the iron lofts can be strengthened and weakened by a fitter up to 2 degrees.
