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Gear: Cobra King Utility iron
Price: $219 with KBS $-Taper lite steel shaft or Project X Catalyst 80 graphite shaft and Lamkin Crossline Connect grip.
Specs: Hollow-bodied iron with tungsten weight and an adjustable hosel.
Available: June 12

Many accomplished golfers shy away from hybrids because their low and back center of gravity encourages shots to fly too high with excessive spin. There is also a tendency for hybrid shots to drift to the left for some better players. However, many hybrids are designed with adjustable hosels, so they can be tweaked to fill specific distance gaps.

With the release of the updated King Utility irons, Cobra is trying to bring the best qualities of hybrids to the long-iron replacement category, while also designing a club that will appeal to iron lovers.

The hollow-bodied Cobra King Utility iron’s construction encourages the face to flex more at impact for increased distance. (David Dusek/Golfweek)

Available as a 2-iron, 3-iron or 4-iron, the King Utility irons are hollow, which allowed Cobra engineers to give them a thin, unsupported face that increases ball speed and distance. The hollow design also allowed designers to add a tungsten weight to the back of the head. It lowers the center of gravity to make getting shots up in the air easier, but they still fly lower than with a hybrid.

The most unique feature, however, is the MyFly 8 adjustable hosel mechanism. Golfers and fitters can use a torque wrench to position the hosel into one of eight settings, adding or reducing loft. This feature, common in hybrids, fairway woods and drivers, is rare in irons. It can make setting up a King Utility iron to hit shots a specific distance much simpler.

To help golfers track their performance, the King Utility comes standard with Cobra Connect, an Arccos-powered, shot-tracking sensor in the grip. The sensor pairs with a free smartphone app and allows golfers to see how far they hit each shot and learn about their tendencies.

Finally, as with other Cobra irons, the King Utility is offered in a One Length version. Measuring 37.5 inches, the length of a typical 7-iron, the King Utility One Length will be available as a 3-iron, 4-iron or 5-iron and is designed to help golfers achieve a consistent setup and swing. While these clubs are shorter than standard-length long irons, many golfers find they hit the ball more solidly with the shorter One Length clubs, and the improved impact compensates for the decreased swing speed, so they do not sacrifice distance.

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Gear: Cobra King Speedzone, One Length Speedzone irons
Price: $899 (4-GW) with KBS Tour 90 steel shafts and Lamkin Crossline Connect grips; $799 (5-GW) with UST Mamiya Recoil ESX 460 graphite shafts
Specs: Cast stainless steel heads with carbon-fiber inserts and multi-material badge
Available: Jan. 17, 2020

The top of an iron rarely is the place where innovation happens, but Cobra’s newest game-improvement iron was designed in a unique way, and a lot of golfers are going to stare at the top of these clubs.

Cobra Speedzone irons — The topline of the Speedzone irons was designed with carbon fiber. (Cobra)

While most of the club is cast from stainless steel, the company designed two carbon-fiber strips in the top of the King Speedzone 3- through 7-irons. One strip is visible on the top of the club, and the other is under the topline, inside the cavity. The pieces are strong but 3 grams lighter than the steel they replace, which gave Cobra’s designers more discretionary weight to put in other areas of the club.

The weight saved in the topline was added to the lower back section of the heads to pull down the center of gravity and shift it farther from the hitting area. This should encourage a higher launch angle and more spin.

The face of the King Speedzone irons is forged from 17-4 stainless steel and is thicker in the center and thinner in areas where Cobra has learned players with a handicap between 10 and 25 tend to mis-hit. It also wraps under the leading edge and into the sole to allow the face to flex more effectively on shots struck low in the hitting area.

Like many modern irons designed to provide mid- and higher-handicap golfers with more distance, the King Speedzone irons have strong lofts, with the 5-iron having 21 degrees of loft and the pitching wedge at 42.5 degrees. However, because of the low-and-back center of gravity, golfers should still see their shots climb to the anticipated height, just farther downrange.

To enhance feel, Cobra designed the King Speedzone irons with a back medallion that features thermoplastic polyurethane, elastomer and an aluminum-foam tape like the material used to join carbon-fiber panels on aircraft. Those materials absorb excessive vibrations at impact to soften feel and make the sound more pleasing.

In addition to the standard Speedzone irons, Cobra is offering a One Length version of the clubs, with each iron being 37.5 inches in length. The company said half of the iron sets it sells are One Length, and they appeal to players who want to develop a single, consistent swing.

Both the standard and One Length Speedzone irons come standard with Cobra Connect, a system of embedded sensors in the grips that link wirelessly via Bluetooth to a free smartphone app. Using the app, golfers can track their performance and learn precisely how far they hit each club.