![]() ![]() In actuality, Schomin said the irons have some semblance of offset, but it’s nearly impossible to spot with the naked eye. Rory McIlroy has already commented on the other alteration to Fowler’s irons, a significantly straight transition from the hosel into the leading that makes it appear the heads have onset. But that’s what he was envisioning, wanting the rest of the set to look kind of like the 7-iron.” Then you get down into the 8, 9 and pitching wedge and you can tell it has a very unique look to it. But it’s not outrageous or out of the ordinary. It’s got no loft to it, looks pretty square and has a flat topline. “If you look at the 7-iron at address, it’s like, OK, that looks kinda crazy. ![]() “The topline being flat (or straight) from the toe to the par area in the throat of the club is different,” he said. However, there are a few that the average elite amateur should be able to pick up on when these irons eventually come to retail later this Fall, starting with the flat topline that was designed around the look of Fowler’s 7-iron. Many of the changes are subtle enough for only Fowler to notice. “From that point, we made tweaks to the leading edge, score lines - how tight the bottom line is to the top, how tight top line is to the toe, score line positioning. During the visit, Schomin and Fowler went through the archives and looked at old blades to gather inspiration, but the more they looked at old product, the more Fowler realized he wanted to go away from the conventional muscleback blade look and build his set around one club in particular: the 7-iron. The iron creation process for Fowler’s new blades started two years ago, but according to Schomin, it really started to pick up steam when the 5-time PGA Tour winner made a trip to Cobra HQ ahead of the 2019 Farmers Insurance Open. We’re making it for him anyway, so any tweaks or changes should be his.” “I spoke to R&D and told them this should just be his golf club. “He had a vision in his head of what he thought would be really cool, unique and pleasing for him to look at,” Ben Schomin, Cobra’s tour operation manager, told. The irons have an identical look to the “RF Protos” he put in play at the end of last year, but instead of sticking with a traditional steel finish, Fowler chose to go outside the box and select a bronze-gold finish that’s unlike anything in the marketplace. That includes Rickie Fowler, who plans to debut a new set of Cobra RF blades at Seminole Golf Club. While the players haven’t been competing on the course, some have been working on their gear behind the scenes. A lot has changed since professional golf went on hiatus at the Players Championship. The return of golf’s megastars on Sunday at TaylorMade’s Driving Relief charity event will have a completely different look than what viewers are accustomed to seeing when they tune in to televised tour coverage. ![]()
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