Cobra’s 3D-printed Limit3d Irons

Golfweek’s David Dusek reviews the new Cobra 3D-printed Limit3d Irons. These Limit3d irons are 3D printed, and this process opens up a world of designs that would be impossible to create using either casting or forging.

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so from the outside this iron might look like something that you have seen before but trust me it is very very different than any iron that you have ever played this is the new Cobra limited iron it’s being released now in 2024 and unlike every other iron out there this one is neither forged and it is also not cast this iron is 3D printed and that opens up for Cobra designers A Whole New World of different things that they can do to make this club perform better so what is the benefit of having a 3D printed iron well 3D printing isn’t going to make the ball go farther it’s not going to make the all go any straighter but what 3D printing allows designers at Cobra to do is create an iron in ways that otherwise they would never be able to create it and in doing that they can build in performance enhancements that really is going to make this club perform and play much much better unfortunately there are only 500 sets of these that are going to be made and they’re going to be selling for about $3,000 a set so this is not something you are going to see all over the place let me explain to you exactly how they make this club now instead of taking a raw Billet and super heating it and then slamming it together which is forging or taking liquid metal and pouring it into a mold that’s casting this iron is 3D printed basically oriented this way and then layer by layer thousands of layers of stainless steel powder are basically laid one on top of the other what’s really incredible is on the inside of this iron you can see here there is a lattice structure now this lattice structure is super strong but because there are openings in it it saves a tremendous amount of weight over 100 G of weight that otherwise would be spread out throughout this iron and that allowed Cobra designers to add tungsten in the form of Weights in the toe and in the heel section here to greatly increase the stability and the moment of inertia this club is not going to want to twist a lot when you m hit it out towards the heel or the toe so you’re baking in a lot more forgiveness into the Cobra limited iron because it is can be structured and it can be built using this very very special lattice now that lattice structure again is undoable is unmanufactured either casting or in forging it has to be 3D printed so this is the first time that they’ve been able to create a club using this design now the 316l powder that is used in this iron is going to make it behave very very similarly to many of the other stainless Steels that are out there on the market but again because of that 3D printing the way that this club is manufactured that is what is going to give you the performance enhancements according to COBRA that you’re going to get as opposed to an iron that is going to be forged or cast from a looks perspective this club is going to look very very simil ilar to a traditional muscle back blade but again because it’s got so much more perimeter weighting you’re going to have a club that looks like a muscle back blade but it’s going to perform much more like a game improvement iron and that has for so long been the real goal of many manufacturers in the better players distance iron division or within the category of game improvement clubs you want something that looks aspirational you want something that’s going to look like it’s in a better player bag and with this iron that has a small amount of offset a relatively thin Top Line not an especially wide sole you were get getting the game improvement characteristics that this 3D printing technology can bring to the fold but you’re getting in a package that looks like a better player’s muscle back blade and everyone’s going to love that so once again you are not going to be seeing these in the wild I am not going to be hitting this club because again there’s only 500 sets around here so the folks at Cobra were kind enough to let me see this club and let me closely examine it it’s a little bit out of my tax bracket but from a performance standpoint from everything about this I am fascinated with this club and what it could mean for golf equipment manufacturing going forward clearly 3D printing is something Cobra has invested a lot in I’ll be fascinated to see how much this is going to resonate with the public if you’re somebody who’s interested in this again June 7th is going to be the day when these will be made available to the public you can go to cobragolf.com for more information you can also go to select retailers that carry Cobra golf equipment and they will be able to purchase these for you through custom order [Music]