Does Cobra’s FF33 axle need 33 settings? What a stylist says

The Cobra gave gear nerds an early Christmas when the OEM dropped it 2025 product line early with the December release of DS-ADAPT.

By far the most innovative of innovations in DS-ADAPT forests and freeway hybrids was the FutureFit33 (FF33) hosel which features 33 different settings to adjust the lie and loft of the club head to suit anything a golfer needs. DS-ADAPT clubs can be adjusted plus or minus two degrees with loft angle and alignment while maintaining a square face.

But with so many options, one has to wonder if 33 settings are too many or if too many settings are intimidating for the average player, the vast majority of whom don’t use the adjustable settings in their driver.

In a recent episode of GOLF’s Fully Equipped, Cobra VP of Architecture Jose Miraflor explained to co-hosts Kris McCormack and Wadeh Maroun that a player will really only try a few settings before locking in the one that’s right for them.

“Once you find out which quadrant you’re missing, go with the opposite quadrant,” Moraflor said, referring to the setup chart that can be pulled up with a QR code of a DS-ADAPT Club house. “And now if you pick two or three from there, directly opposite to get you back to A1 (standard loft and lie), you’ll only have to try maybe two to three, maybe four settings at most. “

For example, if you find that you are hitting the ball up and to the right, the suggestion is to find the up and right quadrant (B6) and then go to the most extreme placement in the opposite quadrant (F2) and try that and three around (F1, F3 and G1).

But this method can usually overlook indoor settings, which present variations of only a few tenths of a degree in loft and lie variations. But these are the settings that have been crucial to Cobra’s staff of Tour players.

“I got to go work with the tour team and film our commercials and do our photo shoot,” Miraflor said. “Now working with Rickie (Folwer), Lexi (Thompson) and Gary (Woodland) and other players who are becoming part of the family, you realize they don’t use the outside at all. So for most golfers where you’re going to use the outer hoops and use those adjustability, for the top amateurs, it’s going to be the inside of it.

“And for our tour pros, they’re the tightest. So when we would talk to them and say, what would you change in your ball flight, they would point to an inner circle. So now we just go in the opposite direction.”

For more from Miraflor on DS-ADAPT and the latest from Cobra Golf, listen to the full podcast here or see below.

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