'The future of the golf club' – Cobra to release 500 3-D printed clubs

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The aptly named LIMIT3D Cobra headsets will be brought to market soon, but you'll have to act fast if you want to get your hands on a set.

The makers used only 500 sets of 3-D printed braces that they say will deliver forgiveness without sacrifice.

Cobra's vice president of product development, Jose Miraflor called the irons “the most significant technological advancement in the segment in the past 20 years” and “a look into the future of golf club design and performance.”

Just last month at the Masters, Bryson de Chambeau released his set of 3-D printed irons that set tongues wagging and golfers everywhere began to question whether innovation was the future of the game.

Cobra has now taken advantage of the expertise of computer design software company nTop to produce an ambitious design: a blade for the smaller player with a forged iron feel and forgiveness comparable to a larger, game-enhancing club.

“nTop's computer-aided design tools combined with 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, allowed us to create an incredible new design that looks and feels like forged steel but functions like a larger, game-changing machine,” said Mike Yagley, Vice President of Innovation & AI. said Cobra Golf.

“No one has done this before, and we are excited to introduce these unique instruments to the world.”

Forgiving instruments tend to be large and feel a bit sloppy, as Cobra explains.

Only with 3D printing was it possible to create a compact metal, which sounds better but offers forgiveness, given the constraints of casting and forging.

Compared to Cobra's King Tour irons, the resulting LIMIT3D irons have a compact profile.

With an internal lattice structure, LIMIT3D instruments are 3D printed in 316L stainless steel.

This allowed the engineers to place 33% of the metal weight without a higher MOI. Each clubhead has 100 grams of tungsten placed in the heel and toe for a low CG for easy launch and a high MOI for more forgiveness.

In addition, the rapid prototyping process made possible by nTop's design tools and additive manufacturing allows engineers to test multiple designs and mass-produce an optimized final product.

LIMIT3D irons won't come cheap though with a suggested retail price of $3000 and only 350 sets available in the United States and Canada. Another 150 sets were produced for the global market.

Sets are only produced as right-handed clubs.