Cobra S2 Forged Irons review

Me swinging the fantastic Cobra S2 forged irons!

Cobra S2 Forged Irons

The Cobra S2 forged irons rates very highly on my all-time list of best looking and easiest clubs to hit. Looking at a golf club needs to inspire you the golfer with confidence, or else half the battle is lost before you even make your swing.

I deliberately did not want to know too much about what the marketing gurus at Cobra came up with to describe their clubs, because I wanted my review of the clubs to be honest, and from the viewpoint of a golf lover.

As a qualified golf clubmaker I understand a bit more than most the elements of what goes into making a good golf club, but we do not necessarily buy golf equipment with our minds, but often with our eyes. It is exactly in the area of ascetics where the S2’s are very strong.

The clubs are masterfully forged using 2025 carbon steel, and then adorned with beautiful shiny chrome, which is very pleasing to the eye, much like a hotrod, with its chromed mag wheels. It looks cool, even when it is just standing still, but if it did not perform well, then it would not really be a “Hotrod” would it?

The clubs I tested came with the Nippon NS Pro 950 lightweight steel shafts in regular flex, and the shaft head combination was a perfect match. The clubs have a low total weight, yet at the same time it had enough feel in the head to make swinging them most enjoyable.

From the first club I hit, the PW right through to the 4 iron, every club in the set felt consistently soft. The feel even on off-centre hits was without the customary rattling of the bones. In fact the club hardly twisted when I hit one shot clearly off the toe with a 6 iron, and there was no appreciable loss of distance or directional accuracy. 

The ball flight throughout the set was consistent in terms of trajectory, as well as shot shape, which is great to know when you are standing over the ball having to hit an important shot in your round. It is predictability and consistency that leads a golfer to have confidence in their equipment, which is exactly what I found in these clubs.

Did I mention that they fly a mile? Without doubt these are the easiest clubs I have hit in ages, yet at the same time they don’t look like the bulky traditional game improvement models that we normally see. In fact these beauties look more like my muscle-back irons, which I normally play with, at address.

I would certainly recommend these clubs to anyone who is looking for an iron that is easy to hit, even the long irons, yet has all the elements one has come to expect from a tour quality forged iron.

For more information go to: www.cobragolf.com.my