Cobra drivers

[Norm66]

Can someone put the various Cobra drivers/fairway wood models in order of release for me? I'm getting confused between the various "Speed" (LD/ST etc.) models in the market currently. A local course has an F-Speed Demo for $179 but I'm not sure if it's the newest or last year's model. I'd like to know if it was a really good deal or if I could get a new club without the "Demo" designation for $20 more from tgw.com. I'll be back at that course Wednesday to check it out again.

Thanks in advance.

[Masa]

The F-Speed is a model from about 2 years ago. The M-Speed, F-Speed, and X-Speed all came out around the same time. They all had "Speed Tuned" Aldila NV shafts (NV-M, NV-F, and NV-X) which had different weights and different kick points to ideally fit the people buying such clubs.

The HS-9 Series came out last year, HS-9/M, HS-9/F, HS-9/X which were pretty similar to the original Speed models except that I believe they added the composite crown and starting pushing the "9 hot spots" technology, hence the name HS-9. They all came with "Speed Tuned" Graphite Design shafts, with the same philosophy as the Aldila shafts from the Speed series.

Late last year came the LD and Speed Pro models. This is the one that is extended further back with more pronounced "cuts" on the crown. These are the ones that make that very composite sound at impact. I believe the LD M and LD F come with Aldila NVS shafts made for Cobra using these "Speed Tuned" stuff again. The Speed Pro models come in a D and an S model, Deep Face and Shallow Face respectively. The S model came stock with a Fujikura Speeder while the D model came stock with an Aldila VS Proto ByYou.

On the way is the new LV4 models which have gone back to the normal M, F, and X designation. They have kept the "Speed Tuned" shaft idea but this time have gone with Diamana Redboard shafts. Unfortunately that's about the limit of what I know on the LV4's at the moment. If anyone sees anything wrong with this feel free to correct me, kind of going off of memory right now.

[Norm66]

Thanks! That's exactly the kind of thing I was after. I just started golfing last year wasn't paying attention when all these were released. So the first generation were just M-F- or S-Speed, the HS-9s were next followed by the LD and now the new (just saw them for the first time in a catalog) LV4s.

After a quick look at TGW.com I can buy the HS-9 model for $199 brand new so if the DEMO at the golf course isn't the LD model I'll skip it.

Thanks again for the help!

[coach13]

i tried a hs9 x 9.0 because of the new l4v coming out and is similiar to that is what I've been told. I love the hs9 x, I never hit one before or thought of it for me more distance and straight. If the l4v is better I want one.