Equipment
Cobra’s new King wedges, with 3 different sole grinds
Cobra’s new King wedges join the company’s King family — including drivers, woods, hybrids, utilities and irons — which will be offered in three different grinds.
The company collaborated with Rickie Fowler, Jonas Blixt and Lexi Thompson to deliver wedges with a softer feel, more spin consistency and greater versatility. The result is Cobra’s line of King wedges (made from Satin Nickel Chrome with stock True Temper Dynamic Gold S200 shafts), which will be available on April 1 for $149.
The King wedges use “progressive milled grooves,” according to Cobra, meaning the grooves are wider and have wider gaps in the higher lofts (56-60 degrees) to grab the ball more, but have “traditional groove spacing” on the lower lofts. Also, the faces (as shown above) use a milling process the company calls “variable face roughness,” bringing the faces to the USGA’s legal limits on roughness and depth.
For a softer feel, Cobra says its engineers used “modal analysis” to tune its vibrational frequencies, resulting in the “softest feeling wedge to date.” And, Cobra’s new King wedges have the company’s familiar notch in their soles.
The King wedges come available in three different grinds: “Versatile” (8-10 degrees of bounce, Rickie Fowler’s grind), “Classic” (11-12 degrees of bounce) and “WideLow” (4-7 degrees of bounce), thus allowing golfers to find a wedge that suits their swing characteristics and the usual turf conditions they play on.
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This week, we have our Tour Photographer, Greg Moore, on the ground at the OccuNet Classic at Tascosa Golf Club in Amarillo, Texas, for the 14th event of the 2026 Korn Ferry Tour season. With that, we see some great things in the Lead Tape Report as we roll into Amarillo.
Joel Thelen
Monday Qualifier, Joel Thelen is in the field this week. He has played on the Korn Ferry Tour for a full season in 2023, and he is back in action this week. A couple of clubs caught my eye this week in his bag.
First off: His trusted Titleist 816 H2 hybrid. This club came out in October of 2015, and it still remains strong in the bag. Also, take a look at this Odyssey White Hot OG 7, putting a capital S in the 7S model. This custom neck has some impressive lean for an arm-lock-style putter. The bottom of the putter is covered in tape for optimal weighting.
Mitchell Meissner
Taking a look at Mitchell Meissner’s bag this week, we have some great lead tape coverage. Top to bottom working from fairway metals, irons, and wedges. We can see on the short irons and wedges that there is tape at the base of the grip, adding a little counterbalance. Along with that, some tape on the short irons and wedges as well. Moving to his putter, he rolls the Odyssey 7 Bird putter. Meissner putts left-handed and strikes the ball right-handed.
Bud Cauley had >14 clubs in his bag when photographed prior to the Memorial Tournament.
Driver: Titleist GTS2 (8 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X
3-wood: Titleist GTS3 (15 degrees, B1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Chemical Tensei 1K Pro Red 70 TX
7-wood: Titleist GTS3 (21 degrees, D1 SureFit setting)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Chemical Tensei 1K Pro Red 80 TX
Irons: Titleist U505 (3), Titleist 620 MB (4-9)
Shafts: Fujikura Ventus Black HB 8 X, True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue
Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM11 (48-10F, 52-12F, 56-14F), WedgeWorks (60-K*)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400
Putters: Scotty Cameron Tour Prototype, Scotty Cameron GOLO 6.3 Prototype
Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Align
Ball: Titleist Pro V1
In our forums, one user has offered up a prompt for the true sickos, inviting fellow forum members to share every set of irons they’ve ever owned. As to be expected, this is a lengthy forum topic.
@Lamosteve began:
Can you name every set of irons you’ve owned? Here’s mine
Spalding Dots
Spalding Eclipse
Ram Lazer FX
Lynx Parallax
Mizuno EZ Comp
Ben Hogans
Cleveland CG Red
Taylor Made R9s
PING i20
PING iE1
Taylor Made M6
Our members in the forum have been offering up their own collections. Here are a few posts from the thread, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.
- macedan: “Started with a hand-me-down Golden Bear set from my brother when I was in high school, never really played more than once a year or got into the game until about summer of 2017. First purchased a set of Cleveland CG4’s (I actually really miss this set sometimes, soft & not terribly large for a GI iron), moved into Nike Vapor Fly’s by the end of the year. Those lasted until spring of 18 when I decided I wanted new, so I traded them in for TM Rbladez. Honestly, although I liked the Rbladez, poor decision on my part, I think this was really about the only time so far that after a week or two I was kicking myself for not staying with what I had. Rbladez stayed with me until late last summer when I switched to P790’s and (knock on wood) I am hoping this will be my longest lasting set.”
- JimmyC59: “MacGregor Jack Nicklaus Triple Crown. Palmer The Standard. Still play these.”
- jgrzask: “Tommy Armour 845u
Mizuno MP-32
Mizuno MP-33 (2 sets)
Bridgestone J33cb – still own
Srixon i-302 (2 sets) – still own
Tourstage X-Blades – still own
Mizuno Hot Metal – still own
Nike Forged Blades – still own
Titleist 714 AP1 – still own
Cobra Forged SS – still own”
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Jason Purk
Mar 20, 2016 at 3:43 am
$149 geewizzz
gunmetal
Feb 19, 2016 at 5:37 pm
Anyone know the lofts that will be offered?
Tad
Feb 17, 2016 at 10:35 pm
Excited to see these in person. Especially like the look at address (at least from the pictures). Wish Cobra would get these on their website with more photos, specs, etc. Also surprised to see them with an SRP of $150 per club (would think they’d try to come in beneath SM6s). Also, the Golf Digest Hot List 2016 has them at $120 per club…
josh
Feb 17, 2016 at 8:10 pm
Surprised to see Cobras claim that increasing the groove spacing will increase spin on the higher lofted wedges. I almost bought a Wishon wedge to kick around. TW’s research claimed that decreasing groove spacing to get 5 grooves in contact with the ball at impact led to increased spin. What happens when the surface roughness goes away after hitting a thousand balls?
M-Herd4
Feb 17, 2016 at 4:55 pm
Love Cobra Gold products. Great looking wedges. I have a Tour Trusty wedge and couldn’t be happier.
Jon
Feb 17, 2016 at 3:25 pm
S200 shafts? I guess I shouldn’t knock it until I try them, but the S300 shafts feel too light in most other wedges.
nick
Feb 16, 2016 at 4:33 pm
In the King line-up, these wedges are dead last. Aesthetically anyways in my opinion. These things are being introduced at $150 too…? My guess is they come up short in the numbers (sales) department.