 Yes, first of all, I want to say it's great to be back down here in Forgolf Chester, not been here for quite some time. But why are we here? That's the big question. Have I made a big mistake? You see, I've already done two videos this year which have well they've been about my favourite product of 2022. And in each of those videos I've had player comments from you suggesting that I'm missing out on one key product that I'd failed to test and maybe are filled to have ignored. Right, okay, so before I reveal what that product is, I'd like to know from you, is there any particular brand of golf product out there, one manufacturer, that you never really seem to fully get on with their product? Because for whatever reason it is, whenever I test one particular brand, they never do well for me, but they seem to do so, so well for many others. Maybe I've got an issue. You see, in recent years one brand has released product that's been really, really favourable amongst the masses. And I don't know whether it's been favourable because it's come in at a very sort of, well a very favourable price point. So are people being misguided with their kind of their trust in this brand, their belief at how good their product is, purely driven by just how low the cost of it has become compared to others out there. And despite testing products well for quite a few years now on the channel, I can almost kind of like, let me just hit this one, it's a decent sound isn't it, I can almost well embarrassingly admit that one of these products from this brand, well they've never made it into my own golf bag. Now that's not to say I don't like the brand or the products they've made because we've done some very very favourable reviews, but like I said for whatever reason they've never really been top of the pile in terms of performance for me. That brand is Cobra and like I said I know that many of you out there just love this product. The driver in particular has been so so favourable in terms of its performance, its price point, the way it looks. It takes so many boxes so why is it that I struggle to get on with the product and today's video we look at another product from Cobra which has been massively favourable in the comment section below in the recent videos that I've done. I'm just hoping I like it this time. So my two products that I highlighted as being my favourites of 2022, well they were both hybrids and many of you in that comment section on both videos suggest I should be looking at the new Cobra LTD, limited whatever it's supposed to be, equivalent hybrid. So that's what we're going to do today. I've finally got my hands on one. I'm going to test the four hybrid out. I'm going to give you my opinion on how it looks, how it performs and hopefully finally we get a product that I really really like from Cobra and we'll consider putting it in the bag. Right I've hit a few balls already. Let's hit one on camera again see if we can get some immediate feedback. As you can hear it's a really good solid strike great sound from the balls off hit so far that's one key thing that I do like the way it sounds the way it feels but there's some other elements that yet again I'm not so sure about. Now with any review we've got to talk about the way a product looks. It's kind of it's a given in a review but it's almost it's so subjective is it really worth me talking about it but I'll do it anyway. I like what Cobra have done. Let's go from the crown first of all. They've gone back to this kind of matte black finish. There's some detail on the very outside of the club face or the club crown rather. It's got the Cobra logo to align the ball. It's a nice looking club. It kind of sits in the kind of larger size I would say in terms of hybrid profiles right now and from a shelf appeal point of view I think again Cobra have done a great great job in recent years in making these clubs look very appealing and looks like a quality build. We've got some weight right at the very back there which is going to suggest that it's going to be CG add back high launching easy to use club. Let's see. Now the one thing I have noticed in recent years is that Cobra came into the marketplace with that new driver a few years back at kind of 349 and that was a thing that was a massive appeal because at that point drivers were kind of in around 450. They came in with a product that literally made it very much more affordable and was like I said very appealing. I've noticed that sort of crept up a little bit in recent years certainly on the driver releases and I had a quick look at this hybrid. This is priced at 199 and again that's kind of getting back up there. I mean putting some prices up again which I did in an earlier video last week. I'll put the comparison products from the major brands. It's right up there now it's kind of okay you save a little bit of money but it's priced itself back into that kind of higher marketplace. Now maybe that was the sort of plan all along from Cobra come in pitch something in a little lower price point grain gain some market share and some favourability from consumers and then creep it back up a little bit. But certainly for me one of the big draws was that very favourable price point. My fear is they've just lost that a little bit. Bit of a pull. Now one thing that I can tell you in terms of performance is that oddly I struggle a little bit in terms of the expected launch anyway like I said with that CG weight at the back I'm expecting to see some real high launch in balls here. Don't forget this is the four hybrid 21 degrees in terms of loft. I've got a recoil shaft in everything is very much sort of familiar with what I would be comfortable with and I'm not seeing a ball flight quite what I would expect to see. Again just that lower ball flight and again could be appealing for you know a certain type of golf course and a certain type of player but for me this club is aimed at the kind of mass market the big thing about hybrids that I rant on about is just how easy they are in terms of launch the ball and for me I just not getting that out of this sort of shaft head combination so maybe we've got the wrong shaft in place but like I said I reviewed a product with the recoil in last week four hybrid and that's a nice strike it sounds good but again it's not a ball flight that I was playing Lynx golf quite atty like but like I said nothing like what I would have expected to see so I don't know what it's doing on in terms of across the board in terms of the metrics on track man but in terms of launch angle I already know it's very much different than I would have expected. Well it's okay so a quick break because I've hit quite a lot of balls and in many ways I've hit quite a lot of balls more than I would normally to sort of give this a fair old crack at a whip because like I said you wonder sort of you know how much of it is down to again my performance here but there's a lot of variables in this just on that launch angle it's launching on average at 12.1 and the highest launching ball that I got in all the shots that I hit was only 15.5 degrees but like I said the average was certainly that sort of well as it says 12 degrees and that surprised me a lot spin was 4000 revs pk to 66 a carry this was a 185 on average which again 185 to 190 I'd expect to get kind of like in most hybrids that I've played I will say that you know when I've referred back to these my favorite products of 2022 one of the surprising thing was was that I seen a few models of hybrids where they had a lot of loft on but were carrying a lot further than I'd expected so they become a lot hotter in terms of the face so that sort of four hybrid was edging into that 200 plus category in terms of the distance I was getting with other products so again not massively fast off the face and at this point obviously I'm concerned about being negative about another cobra product people ask me about dispersion charts which is always the interesting one why haven't you put the dispersion charts up when we forget to do so well I remember to do it today because what you'll see there is a group of balls down the middle maybe five six even the two down the left they're okay now arguably what you've seen in terms of the graphic is a fairway and we'd have maybe just leaked two or three out to the right hand side into the roof but what surprised me again was that most of the kind of user friendly hybrids fairways drivers even for the masses are draw buyers so to help that anti-slice and what I found with this again was that it was a real problem for me and not leaking balls out to the right so I almost had to work a little bit to try and get those balls or stop those ones drifting out as you can see quite a lot wider than I'd expect to be and for a dispersion chart with hybrid in hand to be so sort of well off-center that again is a little bit worrying so unfortunately for me again it doesn't look as though I'm massively positive about a cobra product so whilst I'm not massively favorable I'm also don't want to be truly negative about a product that clearly works for the masses it just doesn't work for me and I'm going to say doesn't work it just by would not be top of the list or anywhere near it in terms of what I've tried this year in terms of hybrid I was quite surprised by the performance if you go back to that dry ball data again the variables were significant if you look at kind of peak height the ball flight was so so different and no consistency in there for me now arguably like I said if we went through a bit of a longer process I tried two or three shafts earlier this morning maybe we could dial something in that performed just a little bit better and more consistently in a longer fitting session but what I would say is as always this is one person's effort response review whatever you want to call these things of that product I would much prefer if you as a group of golfers who've tried this product would give the feedback down below so I'd happily be you know point me in the right direction tell me where it went right for you and why it didn't work quite right for me because my idea is I never like coming on to a channel even though the idea is to give an honest assessment I don't like to be negative about a product and I'm sure like I said there's plenty of you out there that can stick some comments down below that can give some positivity and prove me otherwise wrong anyway as ever I just try and give it feed it back as it is hope you enjoyed that video thank you for watching great to be back down here at foregolf and I'll see you all very soon