Cobra’s OPTM fairway woods and hybrids are engineered around optimised Products of Inertia (POI), a design philosophy focused on delivering greater stability, forgiveness and consistency through precise mass distribution.
The Mizuno JPX One fairway woods and hybrids look to improve ball speed through new high-strength steel faces and a redesigned channel in the front part of the sole that looks to boost flexing on heel and toe mis-hits.
Some people can absolutely smoke a 3-wood, so we are in no way saying no one should be using them. But if you fall into that camp, you are a statistical anomaly.
A healthy percentage of average golfers are playing too little loft on their lowest-lofted fairway wood, and our Hot List testing reveals that more loft is going to be a better choice more often for as many as a third of all golfers.
go-to club. When I won the Players Championship in 2009, I think I hit driver five times all week. At the 2015 Tour Championship, I went 3-wood, 3-wood to hit the green in two on a 600-yard par 5 at East Lake Golf Club. I use 3-woods so often, I’ve caved in the face on more than one over the years.
Australian Golf Digest
