Ian is back in the bay for the final 1st round episode of our driver bracket. Cobra Darkspeed LS takes on the Taylormade Qi10, see who advances to the semifinals!
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That is going to be an overachiever Mikey yeah good swing Big Bounce that’s the low spinner that we know this thing can get that’s a that’s a tough one to meet all right guys welcome back to the channel Michael nice to have you back boy nice to be back everybody I kind of
Thought I liked it my own you know I didn’t really kind of have your annoying me voice in my ear but at the end of the day I thought I miss him some like it just to be you I know the three of us Cody case and I were really happy but at
The end of the day we just thought something in this picture’s not right and we were missing you yeah I was thinking is Mexico better than this yes definitely as you sit back your fifth cocktail um final match of the first round of the bracket I know you haven’t
Kept up with it because it’s not the kind of guy that you are service was bad service was bad no signal in meico um we are tailed versus Cobra today nice pxg is the star of the show so far Michael we are not probably that surprised at
That after uh when we tested it back in December we kind of saw for ourselves we were both fitted to the product how good it was so as of right now that’s definitely the the betting favorite or titlist still hurts me still hurts I know people are actually still
Commenting on your bias towards that I texted a friend at Titleist and he’s yet to reply to me oh jeez I know relationship the bridges have been burnt burnt it’s okay it’s okay today we have a heavyweight contest tailor made versus Cobra I mean I’ve been fitting in the
Bay a lot more than I have in a long time one of these drivers has been performing quite well for you I for customers not for me well I but in your fitting in your fit process like you’ve enjoyed the Cobra yeah it’s been very good yeah and it’s interesting because I
Probably haven’t done much I’ve done anything with a cobra and I actually think I’ve saw and and found the tailor me to be a little bit better for for sort of my fitting so um are we going to are we going to give you a chance to
Redeem yourself and I heard your Co coin flip wasn’t very good so you can go this week okay all right so Players cup is torway okay stream song logo is Cobra see that hear that noise you practiced last night oh Cobra okay Cobra’s up all right fries um Cobra first up Cobra’s up
We said when we first started the bracket we’re going do the drivers around 8° we were just doing some warmup just kind of hitting there I can’t get anything 8° to have any spin on it so for today’s test both at 9 okay right just try and keep it in the
Air a bit more which is a good thing not bad straight Enough Michael good starter it was a tad thin that is going to be an overachiever Mikey yeah good swing Big Bounce that’s the low spinner that we know this thing can get that’s a that’s a tough one to be
That’s kind of the way pxg started out last time it kind of threw up a couple of those and when you’re only a yard or so off line and it’s long it can really almost decide a match and neck it’s going to come out pretty good though tons of like funny
That the necky one is 2100 so it’s not like it’s super balloony or spinny it’s why I always gravitate towards low spin drivers yeah cuz the Miss is under control from a spin perspective it’s a pretty strong opening set here yeah no kidding tlor made better have come to play today
Pretty good yeah feel like I actually hit that one a wee bit better there okay certainly a good opener for the tail made anyway no kidding 324 yeah actually didn’t hit it that good I kind of caught it a bit high in the head
It’s a good one too a little out of the heel it might have been marginally Mikey or slightly thin maybe but good result yeah it was quite good again another another one that’s slightly low in the head but very straight that was crushed just turned a bit didn’t it get
Out speed’s good today yeah that was that was quick yeah it seems like a quick driver but I think just the the straightness of the Cobra which is not something I expected to see I think the the straightness of the Cobra but the on that fraction little Healy miss uhhuh the spins 1900
2100 whereas this is like 25 26 which I don’t I I probably prefer this but on the golf course both are both are impressive all right F round two back to the slight advantage to COBRA after round one there some for straightness yeah yeah a couple couple good
Ones it’s that one it’s like that’s where my Miss lies with the driver slightly low but 2285 and straight yeah turn over it’s coming different sounding strike it was high in the toe but obviously carried a long way it’s long this driver that’s the second 326 out of it oh stay in it
Is relatively long though was a good hit just a bit leaky yeah tell you Cobra Cobra put on a bit of a it’s a distance display totally totally and you you made a comment call it off camera that you weren’t really striking it all that great with the
Cobra like you missed it a little bit for the performance you got out of the messes on the Cobra is nice to see yeah no it was good it was uh like we’re pushing an amount of speed that I probably would maybe a little bit more than I
Would on the golf course which is what’s going to bring in the Miss from time to time I’m not like coting at 165 I’m trying to be you know 168 169 as often as possible so yeah I’m I’m I’m impressed with that Cobra no it was good
It was better than I saw it certainly back when we tested it yeah on the Miss hits okay tailor made I think it’s still pretty pretty even yeah I really do it’s not like it feels like a driver that’s like short and straight yeah but it’s not obviously yeah no no spinny
It’s going to get off line a little bit it’s a shame was a good one yeah spinni or one but it still had some legs to it all right guys that closely F test Michael MH it was uh pretty nip and Tuck I felt like round one of the Cobra was
Really pretty good which kind of was the same last week with Black Ops kind of first set done the damage and then it was it was kind of Performing you know consistently after that felt like Cobra performed really really well five yards off line in the first one yard 11 yards
One yard 11 yards that was the first five drives so averaging probably somewhere around four or five offline five or maybe offline yeah pretty good with the Cobra one when you missed it a bit like it just it never spun up on you it just had so many so much legs to it
It was uh it was impressive but but when it uh when the average is shook out the tail made was actually longer which surprised me when we T up there tail made was 31421 yards Cobra was 31401 uh so I was surprised when we added those up yeah yeah so it literally
Comes down to which was the most accurate uh tailor made was 10.32 offline so for a total of 43.89 mhm uh second highest so far our total behind pxg right okay pxg was I think 309 pxg was showing off last week it was extremely long and extremely straight um the Cobra was slightly
Straighter 9.48 offline so a total of 304.5 one congrats cobra that’s good you predicted it very close is that the tightest we’ve had for offline straightest yeah probably is the straightest I think I think actually um I think pxg was 319 yards and about the same 9 point something so very very
Straight 304.5 one so Cobra W wins by less than a yard six of a yard overall those are two good drivers very good drivers now if we look at this in real world terms and not in the in the bracket sort of measurement type would
You want your misses to be and this is what it really came down to the misses with the Cobra spun at 21 2200 therefore had a little bit more on them would you want the misses to be more like the tailem which missed at like 25 2600 were a bit
Straighter yeah yeah and they they kind of had a chance to to launch up a little bit Yeah if you nitpick it so if yeah because if we’re if we’re looking at it in that sense I mean obviously the scores you know are what they are that’s
That’s that’s done by the the math on it but yeah I think it’s think two very good drivers very good drivers very both I like them both Cobra advances to the semi-finals um I don’t know if that’s a shock I think that this was a true 50/50
I think as many people thought Cobra win as as thought um you know Tade would win both have done really really well uh and both would have stood a real test a real chance you know in in the bracket now of being the best so we now know the
Semi-final um we’ve the Callaway AI smoke Max uh we have the pxg I think their one semi-final and then on the other one is the surprise winner the stricken right zx5 LS and the Cobra dark speed LS Battle of the uh LS is almost in a
Way it’s ended up that way it has Callaway that’ll be that’ll be good well I think the PSG is the one that’s kind of probably surprised in it’s in it’s kind of new ranking it’s probably number one seed but I think going into it I think most people thought the Callaway
Was is going to be the the favorite so it will be I think that that will lead to quite an interesting semi-final but um it will certainly be fun we’re actually filming it straight after this so let’s do it we will see uh see how
That goes okay guys let us know in the comments below who do you think is going to win it there’s four left the final four is here who is going to take the title of this year’s bracket winner let us know below stay tuned for more if
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33 Comments
If your nit picking about the spin on off centre hits. And out in the real world ya have to nit pick on where golfers using the clubs are playing then. Way to many variables to concider. Yes spin is key for control but if your playing a windy course its a killer.
Great test but in the interests of similar ity shouldn't there be two brackets one for the LS models and the other for the standard and max models. Then it would be apples v apples. Afterall the variants suit different levels of golfer
Dels
Noticed the TaylorMade was hit with a 3 wood club selection listed. While the Cobra was hit with driver selected. I wonder how much difference this makes?
I can’t understand why you’re doing an apples to oranges bracket????!! All low spin models should be tested. Even when the reason is you hit one better than the other with certain brands. However, the cobra was extremely low spinning so I don’t understand your logic. Seems like you’re getting paid by certain brands and definitely not biased. I usually like all your videos but this one is definitely biased to the highest bidder.
Standard qi10 vs the low spin cobra?
Why are the LS models not paired against each other ?
Noticed the club in the bottom left of the screen said 3 Wood.. does that have any impact on the numbers from an Algorithm perspective?? At least in the first round for the Qi10
I've never anticipated a video coming out as much as this and I have a YouTube. channel. Love it
Mike, every video is better with you in it! PXG wins.
Ok you got me. I took the PXG challenge after seeing your video. Tsr driver coming out after fitting and Black Ops ordered
Bring in an 90mph amature swinger and do the test for us average golfers. Paige could do it
Not a fan of these brackets, low spin vs non low spin is not quite fair.I also do not like these test on a sim. Take these out to a range and hit them in a real world setting. It should not be based on what you hit well!
PXG is my Prediction for the Champion Driver of the Year.
Fun stuff! I had Callaway and Cobra in the finals. Now I’m thinking Cobra and PXG with PXG making a surprise leap as the 2024 Champion!
IMHO.
What i would like to see Ian do for the brackets is,
#1 Take all the models in 1 brand and fit them to his swing to determine the one that he hits the best so you end up with the best option for that brand.
#2 Hit 20 shots with that club and do your math.
#3 Do this with all the brands that you have selected to be in the brackets.
That way, you are hitting the best option for you and your swing.
#4 Now only hit 1 of the drivers per day and record the results. Hit 20 shots and throw out the 5 worst one's.
Rinse and repeat til you have hit all of them and compare numbers.
Any thoughts anyone?
Interesting flip. Who had the Cobra LS as shorter and straighter?
nice to see that big Mikey smile welcome back great round super entertaining
Cheers from Norcal
Looked like you had to work too hard to get the Taylormade to perform
Ping 10k is still the best driver of the lot for the average golfer. Ian just didn't like the look and the feel and it resulted being out of the contest. I bet after 2 years these other driver will be half the resale cost of the ping.
Great series. Thank you. From a Taylormade perspective is this new driver a significant improvement over the Stealth 2 which is currently in my bag. Or, should I wait until it really is time to upgrade. To assist with a response in a 50 year old male, 189cm, handicap is 4 ish, driving distance with carry is around 300 metres.
The problem with the cobra is it looks like you picked it up in a discount sports store…could easily say pine meadow or something on the bottom 😂
Haven't watched yet, can't wait to see which fanboys are pissed off at the end.
I’ll keep my TSR3.
I think it would be nice if Mikey would do this next year.
Why was it not the LS version of the Qi10? Is that not an apples to apples comparison?
Why wouldn’t an LS model be paired against an LS model?? Seems like ya’ll wanted the Cobra to win…just saying
Black Ops will make it this year! But Cobra is a serious contender
Relieved the Cobra won. I would take it over Qi10 any day.
um the t made was literally not straighter, that's why it did not win. come on man
What shaft are they using with these heads?
Pxg beats cobra in the final
Stripe show from Fraz today
After this is done can we do apples to apples comparison?