Our number fourteen rated golf driver for the 2009 season is the Cobra S9-1 M Speed Driver. We based our analysis on the following criteria.

= Golf Digest Magazine 2009 Hot List Gold Medal Winner
= GOLF Magazine’s 2009 Golf Buyer’s Guide Top Pick
= Average Customer Reviews from (1) sites: 5.0 out of 5 (based on 1+ reviews)
= PGA Tour Pros Using Cobra drivers – Geoff Ogilvy, JB Holmes
= Recent Tour Wins
2009 Mercedes-Benz Golf Championship
2009 WGC Accenture Match Play Championship
2008 Australian PGA
2008 Tour Championship
2008 BMW Championship

Our Review
We love the technology behind this club and with more positive reviews, this club will surely move up in our rankings. The key technological breakthrough with the Cobra S9-1 M Speed Driver is its use of 9 sweet spots. Cobra calls this tech – Hotter 9 Points and it spreads across the face of the driver head. You can see from the illustration how that works. This design effectively widens and expands the sweet spot, creating a more forgiving club head for miss hit balls.

Geoff Ogilvy - 2009 Mercedes-Benz Golf Tournament Champion

“The new S9-1 drivers are the best-looking, best-sounding and best-performing drivers Cobra has ever produced,” says Brian Zender, General Manager of Cobra Golf. “There’s a version for every type of player, from amateur to pro. It’s already made a believer of Geoff Ogilvy, who used the S9-1 driver to capture the 2009 PGA Tour’s opening event, the Mercedes-Benz Championship.”

Discretionary weight is used to optimize each model’s CG location, which gets progressively more draw-biased from the F model to the M to the M Offset. Thus, the F is square-faced and Speed Tuned to produce a slight draw-bias ball flight, high launch and low-mid spin; the M a draw-bias ball flight, high launch and mid spin; and M Offset a maximum draw-bias ball flight, extra-high launch and mid spin.

Overall the club represents the high tech and high quality we’ve come to expect from Cobra Golf.

Product Specs

• Grip: Cobra/Golf Pride New Decade 50D Durometer
• Shaft: Cobra/Aldila DVS-HL, 50gAdvanced aerodynamic shaping for more speed and more distance.

J.B. Holmes

WHERE TO BUY

Austads – $299.95 - Austad’s started as a golf mail order catalog business in 1963. Today they operate 11 retail stores in the upper mid-west, and still print the successful catalog. Austad’s offers a triple guarantee: Austad’s Guarantee of Quality – If any product from Austad’s has a manufacturing defect, they will promptly repair it or replace it. Austad’s Playability Guarantee – If you are not satisfied with your club purchase for any reason within 30 days of purchase, return it to them for an exchange or store credit, less a 20% restocking fee if you have used the club. You can most certainly return any item in new condition and receive a full refund. Austad’s Low Price Guarantee – Austad’s will match any price from an authorized online national competitor (listed on a manufacturer’s website as an authorized dealer) on an identical, in-stock item or they will refund the difference within 15 days of your purchase.

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