Equipment

Cobra Golf SpeedZone fairway woods review

Published

7 years ago

Nov 19, 2019

New for 2020, Cobra Golf launches the SpeedZone fairway woods—and I believe they will get a very positive response.

One topic that always piques my interest during the launch season is to see how the OEMs will transfer driver head technology into fairways. It’s always more of a complicated issue, as you have about half the runway to work with, but the expectations from the consumer are the same. It needs to be fast, launch high, not spin, and look good—no easy task, even for the wizards in the R&D lab.

With the introduction of the new 2020 SpeedZone fairway woods, Cobra Golf stayed consistent with this endeavor. From where I sit, they have always made a good looking fairway wood, and over the past few years have had a couple of unicorns (F6 and F7 respectively) that are hard to get out of people’s bags. The 2020 Cobra SpeedZone series will, in my opinion, replace those old trustys (one model in particular).

Let’s talk about what we’ve got.

Like its big brother, the 2020 Cobra Golf SpeedZone fairway woods have hot zones built-in. This design offers a golf club that launches high, spins just enough, has a good amount of pop, and looks incredible.

SPEED ZONE/S

ZONE 1: THE POWER ZONE: Like years past, Cobra Golf has planted its flag in the CNC-milled face fairway wood. Now, unlike the driver, the milling does not bleed into the crown. However, the milling ensures not only a consistent face, but it also allows Cobra to deliver a face that is thin across the face without sacrificing feel or acoustics.

ZONE 2: THE FLEX and STABILITY ZONE: One of the features I have always loved about Cobra woods is its Dual Baffler rail technology. In this case, it’s been modified to serve a couple of functions. In the front rails, the walls have been thinned a bit to add a little more reflection for ball speed and of course, the baffler serves as the ultimate rudder to insure solid turf interaction and chew through a tight lie.

ZONE 3: THE LIGHT ZONE: Like the driver, carbon fiber has been increased to the crown to save weight (10 grams) and added the weight to the bottom and rear of the golf club lowering CG.

As with all Cobra woods, the new 2020 Cobra fairway woods come equipped with MyFly adapters to tune in ball flight preferences.

THE MODELS

SpeedZone

Head volume: 167cc (3-wood), 156cc (5-wood), and 153cc (7-wood)

Face height: 27.6 mm

LOOKS

Classic shaping in a modern package. It’s a shallow face (but not too shallow) and the carbon fiber crown gives it a sleek look.

FEEL/SOUND

Not as thumpy as the driver but still a nice solid feel and sound.

SpeedZone Tour

Head volume: 148cc (3-wood), 145cc (5-wood)

Face height: 28.55 mm

Cobra SpeedZone fairway woods (in-hand pics)

LOOKS

Better player profile. Built to manipulate the golf ball off of any lie, up, down, left, right. Not necessarily built for distance, this fairway wood does have low launch/low spin characteristics, but ultimately, it’s a precision tool.

FEEL/SOUND

Nice dead head feel and sound for those looking for a heavy hit. This is not the most forgiving fairway out there. Like a forged blade, you are sacrificing forgiveness for workability. Better players will have no problem with that. The shiny carbon crown is a new touch and an improvement on the F9 Tour.

Speed Zone Big Tour

Head volume: 173cc (3-wood)

Face height: 31.2 mm

LOOKS

This is the crown jewel of the fairway line. The Big Tour has the biggest thumbprint of the line but also carries with it the best look and most versatility. It has a deeper face, a longer head face-to-back, and it just looks like it wants to fly. It’s an awesome looking golf club, and in my opinion, will be the sleeper of the better player fairway class in 2020.

FEEL/SOUND

The closest to the driver in this category. It has a heavy head feel and the acoustics give you that dead thump that better players prefer. The Baffler Rails are missing from the sole to move that weight elsewhere which is not a minus. The Big Tour is built for high launch/low spin bombs off the tee and the fairway.

OVERALL: It’s a really solid lineup for fairways. The new 2020 Cobra SpeedZone fairway woods will entice all golfers at all levels. This line has something for everyone.

Specs and Pricing Provided by Cobra Golf

MSRP USA $279 (all models)

KING SPEEDZONE Fairway

3-wood	13^o, 13.5^o, 13.5^o Draw, 14.5^o, 14.5^o Draw, 15.5^o, 15.5^oDraw, 16^o
5-wood	17^o, 17.5^o, 17.5^o Draw, 18.5^o, 18.5^o Draw, 19.5^o, 19.5^oDraw, 20^o
7-wood	21^o, 21.5^o, 21.5^o Draw, 22.5^o, 22.5^o Draw, 23.5^o, 23.5^oDraw, 24^o

Colors: Gloss Black/Yellow or Matte Black/White
Grip: Lamkin Crossline (58+) Connect – Black
Shaft Options: High launch/mid spin UST Helium 4 (F2 – Lite flex) or mid launch/mid spin MCA Tensei AV Blue 65 (stiff and regular)
Available in RH (LH available in custom)
20+ premium shaft offerings available through custom at no-charge

KING SPEEDZONE Tour Fairway

3-wood	12.5^o, 13^o, 13^o Draw, 14^o, 14^o Draw, 15^o, 15^oDraw, 15.5^o
4-wood	16^o, 16.5^o, 16.5^o Draw, 17.5^o, 17.5^o Draw, 18.5^o, 18.5^oDraw, 19^o

Colors: Gloss Black
Grip: Lamkin Crossline (58+) Connect – Black
Shaft Option: low launch/low spin Project X HZRDUS Yellow 70 (stiff and x-stiff)
Available in RH only

KING SPEEDZONE Big Tour Fairway

3-wood

12^o, 12.5^o, 12.5^o Draw, 13.5^o, 13.5^o Draw, 14.5^o, 14.5^oDraw, 15^o

Colors: Gloss Black/Yellow
Grip: Lamkin Crossline (58+) Connect – Black
Shaft Option: low launch/low spin Project X HZRDUS Yellow 70 (stiff and x-stiff)
Available in RH/LH

Women’s KING SPEEDZONE Fairway

3-wood	17^o, 17.5^o, 17.5^o Draw, 18.5^o, 18.5^o Draw, 19.5^o, 19.5^oDraw, 20^o
5-wood	21^o, 21.5^o, 21.5^o Draw, 22.5^o, 22.5^o Draw, 23.5^o, 23.5^oDraw, 24^o
7-wood	24^o, 24.5^o, 24.5^o Draw, 25.5^o, 25.5^o Draw, 26.5^o, 26.5^oDraw, 27^o

Colors: Gloss Black/Rose Gold
Grip: Lamkin Crossline (58+) Connect – Black
Shaft Options: UST Helium 4 (F1 – Ladies flex)
Available in RH/LH (5W, 7W in LH available in custom only)

Cobra SpeedZone fairway woods (in-hand pics)

Whats in the Bag

Christiaan Maas WITB 2026 (June)

Published

5 hours ago

Jun 11, 2026

GolfWRX Staff

Driver: TaylorMade Qi4D LS (8 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus TR Blue 6 X

3-wood: TaylorMade Qi10 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 9 TX

Irons: TaylorMade P770 (3), TaylorMade P7CB (4), TaylorMade P7TW (5-PW)
Shafts: Fujikura Ventus Black HB 10 X, True Temper Dynamic Gold X100

Wedges: TaylorMade Prototype (50-SB09), TaylorMade MG5 (56-HB12, 60-LV07)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold S400

Putter: TaylorMade TP Juno

Ball: Titleist Pro V1x

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord

Check out more in-hand photos of Christiaan Maas’ clubs here.

Equipment

TaylorMade MySpider Tour and Tour X: More customizable build options now available

Published

5 hours ago

Jun 11, 2026

Alistair Cameron

TaylorMade Golf’s MySpider program underwent a substantial overhaul over the last month. Firstly, the company launched the option to customize the Spider ZT model, and now the program has returned with the MySpider Tour and MySpider Tour X.

The revamped page now gives golfers complete control over every visual and functional detail of their putter on the popular Tour and Tour X head, with every cosmetic idea thought of. In MySpider Tour, golfers can choose from four head finishes, 16 paint fill colors, nine Surlyn face insert colors, three aluminum insert options, six sightline configurations, and four hosel options — L-neck, small slant, double bend, center shaft. Six sightline options are available in MySpider Tour, including the optically engineered True Path alignment system. MySpider Tour X gives builders the option of four head finishes, four hosel configurations, and five sightline options, also including True Path alignment.

One of the more interesting features of the new MySpider program is the availability of three distinct face insert options. Along with the usual Surlyn Pure Roll insert trusted by Scottie Scheffler and Rory McIlroy, which can be customized from nine colors, golfers can now also select firmer options. Two are offered with the black aluminum Pure Roll insert, slightly firmer than the traditional insert, or for the firmest feel, golfers can choose from two colors of milled aluminum inserts.

Another fun addition to the MySpider Tour is the ability to use the “Tommy Sightline.” The custom alignment aid design, which was first drawn onto Tommy Fleetwood’s putter by PGA Tour Rep James Holley, is based on the milled sightline on his Spider ZT head. There are five shorter lines on the left and right of a longer central line serving as the traditional short line alignment aid.

See below for the full specifications sheet for MySpider Tour and Tour X:

MySpider Tour

MySpider Tour X

Equipment

Then and now: Comparing Rory McIlroy’s current setup to his record-breaking 2019 Canadian Open victory

Published

8 hours ago

Jun 11, 2026

Alistair Cameron

In Rory McIlroy’s first appearance at the 2019 RBC Canadian Open, he crushed the record books to earn his 16th PGA Tour title in dominating fashion, winning by seven shots over Shane Lowry and Webb Simpson.

McIlroy’s score of 22-under-par 258 is the lowest 72-hole score to date at the Canadian Open, and his closing 61 is also the best final-round score in the history of one of golf’s oldest tournaments. Finally, with his win in 2019, McIlroy became only the sixth player to win the career Triple Crown, adding to his victories at the U.S. Open in 2011 and The Open Championship in 2014, joining Tommy Armour, Walter Hagen, Arnold Palmer, Lee Trevino and Tiger Woods in a coveted list.

So, with that, why not compare his current setup to the clubs he used to break all the records?

Driver

2019: TaylorMade M5 (9 degrees), Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro White 70 TX
2026: TaylorMade Qi4D (9 degrees @8), Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 7X (45 5/8 inches)

McIroy led the Tour in Strokes Gained: Off-the-Tee in 2019; he’s doing the same in 2026. Between now and then, McIlroy has switched from the Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro White 70 TX (a shaft with slightly more feeling in the tip) to the original Fujikura Ventus Black 7X, having just made the change to the heavier version from playing the 60X.

What’s interesting about McIlroy’s 2019 setup is that the weighting on his driver is actually set in the high-draw setting, using the T-Track weighting system, whereas in the Qi4D, he’s currently using a heavily rear-weighted setup. (Two 13-gram weights in the rear and only two 4-gram front weights.)

The TaylorMade M5 driver he played in during his Canadian Open win was the company’s first head that they claimed to design to initially exceed the USGA’s COR limit, and then injected with tuning resin to bring it back in bounds.

Fairway woods

2019: TaylorMade M6 3-wood (15 degrees), Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro White 80 TX; TaylorMade M5 5-wood (19 degrees), Shaft: Mitsubishi Tensei CK Pro White 90 TX
2026: TaylorMade Qi4D 3-wood (15 degrees), Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 8X; TaylorMade Qi4D 5-wood (18 degrees), Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 9X

The TaylorMade M6 fairway wood that McIlroy was using during the 2019 season is still in the bag of some of the best golfers on Tour in 2026. Just check out Justin Rose’s winning setup from the Farmers Insurance Open earlier this year. This year, though, McIlroy has still been searching for his top-end-of-the-bag setup, having played both the new Qi4D and the Qi10, which he won the Masters with.

The same shaft swap can be seen in the fairway woods as the driver, along with slightly less loft on the 5-wood.

Irons

2019: TaylorMade P750 (4) Buy here, TaylorMade P730 (5-9), Shafts: Project X 7.0
2026: TaylorMade P760 (4), TaylorMade Rors Proto (5-9), Shafts: Project X 7.0

The biggest difference between McIlroy’s custom set and the stock P730s is the groove design. While the P730s were constructed with 14 MX-9 grooves on their milled faces, McIlroy’s proto heads instead use the higher-spinning, 16-groove layout of the TW2 grooves. Other big differences between the sets are that McIlroy’s 7- and 8-irons have thinner toplines, are 1 degree stronger in loft, and are 1/4 inch longer than the original P730 builds.

With McIlroy’s 4-iron, the switch from P750 to P760 sees a transition to a two-piece construction with Speed Foam in it, which allows McIlroy to launch the ball slightly higher, with more workability.

Wedges

2019: TaylorMade Milled Grind (48-09SB), TaylorMade MG Hi-Toe (52-09SB, 56-09SB, 60-LB09), Shafts: Project X Rifle 6.5
2026: TaylorMade MG5 (46-09SB, 50-09SB, 54-11SB, 60-08LB @61), Shafts: Project X 6.5 (46-54), Project X 6.5 Wedge (60)

Between 2019 and 2026, McIlroy’s focus on his short game has been much more apparent. It was the reason why he switched back to the TP5 golf ball, to help with launch, spin and control with his wedges leading up to his career Grand Slam victory in 2025. The most apparent changes to McIlroy’s wedge setup are his lofts and bounce. He’s slowly delofted his pitching to a sand wedge, but has increased the loft on the lob wedge, bending his current 60-degree to 61. With that, adding more loft to his lob wedge also slightly increases the bounce and leading-edge sit point, so, as a result, he plays a lower-bounce lob wedge compared to 2019. The MG5 wedges are also softer than the first Milled Grind option from 2019. McIlroy also no longer plays the full-face grooves found on the Hi-Toe.

Putter

2019: TaylorMade Spider X
2026: TaylorMade Spider Tour X

Notice anything similar. Yes, the copper finish on Rory McIlroy’s Spider X putter in 2019 is a slightly more reflective finish than the recently released torched PVD finish. McIlroy was using the True Path alignment system, but now uses only a single white sightline.

Ball

2019: 2019 TaylorMade TP5 (#22)
2026: 2025 TaylorMade TP5 (RORS)

As mentioned above, McIlroy had transitioned from the TP5 to TP5x golf ball since his victory in Canada in 2019, but now is black with the same style of golf ball as his victory at Hamilton Golf & Country Club.

Grips

2019: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Cord
2026: Golf Pride MCC

Interesting, McIlroy actually used Golf Pride’s Tour Velvet Cord grips during his victory in 2019 (it was during a 2+ year switch to the corded TV) as opposed to his usual MCC grips, which he has played for most of his career.