Are you a female golfer looking to elevate your game with the latest technology and innovation? The Cobra Darkspeed Women’s Irons are here to help you achieve your best performance yet! With a focus on distance, forgiveness, and feel, these irons are designed to take your game to the next level.
Hollow Construction: The all-new hollow body design allows for improved weight distribution, creating a larger unsupported face that unlocks maximum distance potential.
PWRSHELL H.O.T. Face: The updated PWRSHELL insert with an H.O.T. Face design delivers more efficient speed and spin, producing a larger sweet spot for better ball flight.
PWR-BRIDGE Weight: A refined PWR-BRIDGE weight suspended on a single post encourages more body flexion for faster ball speed.
Exceptional Feel: The hollow cavity is filled with a soft polymer that damps vibrations, providing exceptional sound and feel at impact.
Lightweight Design: The KBS PGI graphite shafts offer the same dispersion and control as steel shafts but in a lighter weight, making it easier to swing.
Why Choose Cobra Darkspeed Women’s Irons?
Distance and Forgiveness: These irons are designed to provide effortless distance thanks to strong lofts and improved technology.
Tight Dispersion: Even from mishits, the Cobra Darkspeed irons offer tight dispersion, ensuring consistent performance.
Superb Feel and Feedback: The irons deliver amazing feel and feedback off the clubface, making every shot enjoyable.
Modern Aesthetics: With a sleek and modern design, these irons inspire confidence and consistency on the course.
The Cobra Darkspeed Women’s Irons are perfect for amateur golfers and mid to high handicappers looking to improve their game. While they may not be for Tour players, they offer the perfect balance of distance and control for those seeking to enhance their performance
The Cobra Darkspeed Women’s Irons are a game-changer for female golfers. With their innovative design and advanced technology, these irons are set to become a favorite among players looking to boost their distance and overall performance.
Cobra’s previous model AeroJet Women’s irons were a real hit, so they needed to pull out all the stops to better 2023s range. For Cobra to produce one of the best golf iron sets with their 2024 Darkspeed Women’s irons and have them compete with the finest women’s golf irons this year they’ve made some considerable changes to the technology and manufacturing process.
Darkspeed irons are aimed at amateur golfers and we expect them to be one of the best iron sets for mid to high handicappers. Although, that’s not to say better amateur golfers can’t play with them. They might not make their way into any Tour player’s golf bags, but Cobra have definitely improved their iron sets in recent years. Even players such as Justin Rose have had Cobra irons in the bag despite not being contractually obliged to use them.
The golfers’ Cobra are going to be appealing to with Darkspeed irons are very similar to the ones they were targeting with their AeroJet irons. It’s players seeking distance that Darkspeed irons will attract most because of how strongly lofted they are (although not as strong as AeroJet were – 27° compared to 26.5°). Despite being strong lofted, Cobra still believes these irons can generate enough height and spin to challenge the best high-launch irons that have much weaker lofts.
Tom Olsavsky, Vice President of Club R&D at Cobra Golf, has high praise for the irons Cobra take to market for 2024, saying “When we think about distance irons, Cobra has always been a leader in the category. We have upped the ante with Darkspeed for out-of-this-world speed, with even better feel.
“This truly is one of the best feeling irons we have ever created.”
Feeling H.O.T., H.O.T., H.O.T.
The PWRSHELL H.O.T. Face has become a regular component of Cobra golf clubs over recent years, but it’s never the same as it was the previous year. 2024 sees Cobra introduce their thinnest H.O.T. Face in Darkspeed, it’s 21% thinner than it was in AeroJet (1.5mm at its thinnest compared to 1.9mm in last year’s irons). Thinning the face and making an L-cup insert makes the clubface more flexible, creating increased ball speed and leading to more distance.
Despite the face being unsupported the launch is much more robust thanks to the larger thinner face which has created a larger high-stress region. With the Darkspeed irons you can achieve explosive ball speed and launch to challenge some of the longest irons in 2024.
Chasing distance can sometimes compromise performance, especially in longer irons, but to combat this Cobra have increased the size of the CNC Milled Grooves in the longer irons (4 iron to 7 iron) and introduced a larger PWRSHELL insert in the same irons (plus the 8 iron). The PWRSHELL insert extends beyond the topline of the club and wraps around the toe area of the Darkspeed clubface which promotes flexibility and speed.
You might be thinking, it’s all fine and well a club increasing distance and feeling good, but will it help me when I’m going pin-seeking? The answer is yes! The dispersion of the Darkspeed irons is very impressive for a club engineered with the purpose of helping golfers hit the ball farther. Having a larger sweet spot helps to deliver more efficient spin and means even the mishits aren’t massively punishing.
Suspended weight bridge
Cobra have been taking inspiration from Da Vinci’s self-supporting bridge for a number of years, and they’re constantly striving to improve the PWR Bridge technology based on the work of the Italian polymath. This technology is a feature of every club in the Darkspeed range – and it’s no surprise considering the advancements they’ve made with this technology.
The PWR Bridge is only a feature of the 4-7 irons which have the 17-4 face insert. The purpose of the suspended weight bridge is to lower CG and improve flexibility – not much has changed there. However, the PWR Bridge has been modified for 2024 by having only one weld post (compared to two in the AeroJet iron head). This ensures that the entire body structure is more fluid and allows the face to flex more, increasing the elastic rebound effect which delivers more speed, distance, and launch.
Hollow body construction
Hollow body construction is becoming more and more popular in iron sets. Cobra’s first hollow body irons were their T-Rail hybrid-irons, but they’ve now implemented the construction into their game-improvement irons. It’s definitely a welcomed addition to Darkspeed. The 431-SS body offers an excellent feel and when partnered with the hollow body it offers incredible distance and performance.
Featuring a TECFLO construction, the hollow body construction changes throughout the set in order to optimize performance. The irons with a full-hollow body are 4-PW while the GW and SW are half-hollow bodies. The 4-7 irons are full-hollow and fit with the suspended PWR Bridge, whereas the 8-PW full-hollow construction is without the PWR Bridge.
The hollow body isn’t completely empty, it’s filled with 3g 924D foam microspheres which creates a more elastic rebound and 25% more face deflection resulting in increased distance by reducing spin from longer face interaction time. Although Cobra have built their Darkspeed irons with a more metalwood-like construction they don’t feel, sound, or perform in the same vain as metalwoods do. They are a joy to hit and definitely a contender for the best forgiving irons of 2024.
Sweet sound
What are the first things you look for when purchasing a new set of irons? First is likely to be aesthetics, following this, it’s probably sound and feel. Cobra have done all they can to make Darkspeed sound as appealing as it looks. They’ve done this by replacing the 7g polymer filling in the AeroJet iron with 924D foam microspheres weighing 3g. The weight saved here has been added to the PWR Bridge to lower CG and improve sound and feel.
To achieve a better sound and feel over last year’s AeroJet irons the foam filling isn’t the only factor. The improved sound and feel comes from all of the components working in unison to deliver a nicer experience when playing with Darkspeed irons – from the increased distance to the dampened vibrations on off-center hits.
Cobra are behind some of the best irons on the market, and it’ll be no surprise to see their Darkspeed Women’s irons fighting it out to be named one of the best women’s iron sets of 2024. They’re aimed more toward amateur golfers thanks to their stronger lofts and forgiving features. If you’re in the market for a more refined set of irons used by Tour pros then you’re best looking at Cobra’s King range. Depending on how many irons you wish to carry, Darkspeed Women’s irons are available from 5-iron through to sand wedge. Stock sets will run from 6-iron to sand wedge.
Having achieved much success with the previous Aerojet Women’s irons, Cobra have continued to use AI to assist them in designing the H.O.T. Face which has been improved for 2024. The emphasis of these irons is on speed, sound, and efficiency. To achieve this Cobra have filled the hollow body with foam, increased the size of the PWRSHELL H.O.T. Face, and improved the PWR Bridge construction. The deeper body and high bounce leading edge make this club extremely versatile and a go-to no matter where you’re balls sitting.
