hey derek from ForeGolf Custom here this is where custom fitting meets club reviews so it's all the
information around settings shafts heads all the good stuff and all the stuff that you can use
to find the best driver for you today we're looking at cobra's ltd-x driver comes in a
different range of heads there's an ls version there's a max version there's a standard version
and there's also even a ladies one it comes in different lofts as well so it goes 9 10 and a
half and 12 and spin across the different heads we're going to skip past all the kind of i guess
technical stuff and bits and pieces that you hear everywhere else and we're going to get straight to
why we think that this could be the best fitters driver in the market right now so dave tell me
why do you love this cobra driver so much i think primarily as a fitter you when you're trying to
fit first and foremost but primarily fine tune that small refinement can sometimes make
the biggest of difference so the fact that the driver has adjustable weights it's got a really
good hosel you can open and close the settings certainly in this is the max driver that i've
got in my hand you've got a big draw weight which tends to help a lot of amateur golfers
with that with an outside swing plane it can also go into the back position as well so
you've just got lots and lots of fine tuning elements to get the driver perfect for the client
i think that's really important to know as well so all the different parts that we use
to adjust the club to suit the different types of players really important a bit of backstory so
cobra obviously look after d chambeau and one of the long drive guys as well so they're kind of
dialed into speed and how do they manage speed so the ls driver that that comes in this range
is really good at managing spin the ls stands for low spin it's keeping things low but this driver
launches it does get the ball into the air and it feels incredibly good off the face so dave tell me
what are the top three things that you like across the range of the ltd x driver the ls the low spin
that front weight and the head really really good if you have a high launch and a high spin rate
all the energy forward all the energy moving forward not back weirder than traditionally
getting the thing up in the air in the max that draw it is brilliant it's really far forward it's
really at the extremity of the driver it produces good head rotation through the ball for anybody
who would cut it which let's be honest there's a good percentage of the amateur marketplace
and then i think you have across the range you have massive variables in launch between the
front weighted ls which can go all the way down to seven and a half with the front weight and it was
all the way up to the ladies max at 13.5 degrees now all these variants are in principle low spin
even though the ones that launch so primarily you have to set the loft up depending on how to get
the ball in the air let's stay in that veins this is really important folks when you're watching at
home you're thinking about buying this driver the loft is really important when you when when you're
dealing with a low spin characteristic so let me just let me just explain a little bit deeper so
with all the carbon fiber in this driver it means that all the weight pretty much is in the front
end and in a little bit in the bottom end so that means that they can lower the center of gravity
and move weight where they want to within the club head to try and control the spin as a result
this product is incredibly low spinning right across the range no matter what driver you buy
it's pretty much going to spin low that means you need to make sure that you look at the right
loft okay so dave's theoretically or or typically in the in the range that we've
seen from all the different brands low spin is a big characteristic so when we tested you know
the the stealth from taylormade there was a low spin characteristic there and then
we had to work with the loft is loft still is important with this driver i think it's maybe
important when you consider what you want the driver to do so primarily if you want
a low spinning front weighted driver because you hit it hard on the up
then you inevitably you need low loft with front weight so the nine in the ls becomes
the predominant option in the it but when you need to get the ball up in the air as in the max
you primarily need to keep loft on it because certainly if you've got the draw weight which
is quite far forward in the head you need to then ensure that something's going to get the ball up
in the air so you're using loft so use the loft so the 10 and a half max again becomes the dominant
variant in that in that model okay cool so let's break it down then a little bit quickly so that
we can give this information out there so let's go with ltdx ls the low spin driver yeah who's this
for and maybe let's get a swing speed guide here so if you're out practicing you've got your you
know launch monitors you can use the the personal ones or if you go to a range where there's
topgolf or one of these kind of range trackman range you'll be able to get your swing speed
tell me what range swings we need people need to be looking at so let's go with ls first so
ls again just to recap predominantly nine degree head as a starting point keep the spin off it
now the the two weights are quite close together so it's not necessarily it's more if you fade it
or draw it as opposed to hook it or slice it so minimum so a little little soft draw a little soft
fade but quite neutral it's design and then from a ball speeds perspective or a club head speeds
perspective something above 100 105 is a really good starting point for this driver perfect so
then if we drop into the max head then what's the type of golfer or strike i guess and swing speed
again a little bit lower in the bolt in the club head speed probably somewhere 95 to 105 to give
you a range you've got all that adjustability and you can really move the center of gravity around
it works across of a massive around to speed because if you cut it at high speed
you still want a big weight in the heel and very very good if you've got a big high slice
because you've got a big heavy 10 gram weight you can put right in the extremity of the heel
and it gets really really good rotation through the ball got you and then the
ltd the the extra i guess the normal driver if you want to call it that where does that fit in this
one has a much wider play in terms of speed wise very very again you tend to need loft on it it's
just got one fixed back weight again predominantly 10 and a half gets the ball up in the air very
very stable again if you not necessarily if you've got big slices and big hooks going on
but if you're relatively straight you just need to take a bit of spin and you need a bit of speed on
it that's where that fits into the ridge and then ladies obviously fairly straightforward
i think but do you use much of it if it's going to be a ladies driver and it doesn't spin too much
just it tends to be the 12 and a half degree jacked all the way up and it's loft so as much
loft as you can get on it because inevitably sometimes ladies need a bit of extra spin to
keep the ball in the air so maybe not the best ladies product but if you've got a lady with speed
really really good product for that so there you go there's the quick guide to the ltdx driver from
cobra i guess the key important takeaways here are make sure you get the loft right
and obviously then use the manipulation of weight depending on the speed that you generate so
get the ls in there if you're a higher speed use the max get that weight into the heel if you have
trouble with the slice the the actual hustle is very intuitive so it's got a little window you can
swivel it around and see what the loft settings are a little tip for you the little d beside the
number means that it's draw so the club head is more closed so use that if you're slicing the
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