Rick puts the brand-new Cobra 3DP lineup to the test! 🔥
In this video he dives into all three heads in the 3DP family, looks at ball speed, forgiveness and feel, and answers the big question: are these the next “point-and-shoot” irons for your bag?
Let us know which head you’d game in the comments and what you want us to test next 👇
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28 Comments
Love the reviews. Keep it up Ricky
Rick your content is top class at the moment !
for 2250 I hope theyre great! if you need somewhere to store them rick ill keep them!
I am gaming these the Standard model. They are absurdly forgiving and feel like a forged club and give you all the feedback you want. No hot spots. Very little distance loss off-center strikes. I’m excited for an expanded line and potential combo set options.
This is a paradigm shift in iron design. There’s nothing like them. Go look at AskGolfNuts video and heatmap of face. It’s wild.
Commenting coming in before they could finish the video 😂. 2026 is gonna be wild for golf tech. Wonder if Cobra will offer a One Length version?
I would be afraid of getting dirt and sand into the honeycomb back.
Soooo what's in the bag for 2026, Rick? that video coming out any time soon?
Anychance of a giveaway on these??
Or you gonna be ya stingy self n put em with other 500 sets you have??
I can buy multiple Takomo sets for the price of one, why would I ever buy these?
Striped them. With the cost is golf becoming more pay to win?
If these were in my budget I'd be placing an order right now. Beautiful irons.
👍- but way out of my range …
Can you clean it properly when you get mud into the back of the club
Hi Rick, I’m in the market for a new driver and I am between the callaway ai smoke max d and the taylormade qi10 standard model which one would you say performs better? Thanks deeply appreciate it
Cheaper way to make irons with 3d casts.. yet double the price of usual forged irons.. crazy crazy.. how to price urself out the market completely which they have limited space in the iron market already..
Cobra makes the best stuff, or at least as good as the other big box brands. They've slowly taken over a lot of my bag. Wedges and putter the only thing I don't have from Cobra.
Seems too expensive for Cobra irons
Cobra is always fire 🔥
Do you get to keep all the clubs they send you?
When these come down in price in the next 2-3 years, I'll be ready for a set of these
Avoda Golf was first to market with 3D printed irons. Would love to see a review on Avoda generally. Maybe their bulge face models
If you buy don’t tell anyone because every time you hit a bad shot they will remind you how much they cost
I thought cobra has the patent on 3d printer clubs right now.
Rick when will you review the Callaway forged x irons??
The new Wilson Model irons are by far the best irons of 2026
I had the 3dp tours last year and they were great. But compare them to the used PXG 0317T irons I'm using now, and are they $1500 better for a 7 club set? No, they're not. If these were more competitively priced, even around $1600 for a 7 iron set, these would sell like hot cakes. But I think they will still be priced out for many people. This could be such a sick combo set though. X in the 4 Iron, DP in the 5-7 Iron, and MB in the 8-PW.
I couldn’t bear spending all that cash and being unable to get mud out from that mesh on the back 😬
You should compare the expensive cobra 3d printed irons to avoda curved irons. They can be around 4k dollars. And they are forgiving too