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supplies automatic shot tracking via an A.I. platform that golf professionals earn well over 375 victories and multi-
features, Arccos Caddie Rangefinder, Smart Distance Club millions of dollars in prize money since inception.
Averages, Stroke Gained Analytics and Caddie Advice to Graphite Design continues to be the most dominant, #1
help all golfers make smarter decisions, improve faster shaft brand on the Japanese JGTO Professional Tour for
and shoot lower scores. the past seventeen years.
Steel (KBS) or Graphite (UST Recoil) shafts are available.
$899.00 www.cobragolf.com Edison Custom Fitted Wedges
Wedges are critical to your scoring ability.
Graphite Design Shafts Next to the putter, golf wedges are the most efficient
Graphite Design is the one shaft that I have recommended weapons to improve your short game. Golfers can reduce
to my Tour players, PGTAA members and consumers. their handicaps significantly by being fit for course
Graphite Design’s shafts are a perennial winner on all the conditions and being custom fitted.
Tours.
One of Graphite Design’s most popular shaft is the
Graphite Design Tour AD IZ – “Into the Zone”, designed
and manufactured at the Graphite Design Japan factory
headquarters, has a very stealthy look to it in black with
white/orange accents and a sleek new matte finish.

The Tour AD IZ shafts are available in 40g R2, R1 and S
flex, 50g R2, R, S and X flex, 60g SR, S, X and TX flex, 70g Edison Golf, owned by the “Disruptor in Chief” of the
S, X and TX flex and 80g S and X flex. wedge industry, Terry Koehler (Merit Golf, Eidolon, SCOR
and Ben Hogan fame), was created to bring this knowledge
The Tour AD IZ, like all of the premium Tour AD and expertise to all golfers and to make wedges that fit the
wood shafts, utilizes aerospace quality 50t carbon- golfer’s swing, not fit the swing to the club that they have
fiber materials in order to deliver the best feeling and purchased.
performing shaft available to golfers. It is estimated that 75% of shots during a round are played
within 100 feet of the pin. As a consequence, over the past
The Tour AD IZ shaft has a firm stiffness starting at decade, wedges have become increasingly sophisticated,
and dexterity with these instruments will certainly both
lower your score and add to your enjoyment of the game.

Many golfers, including pros, now carry 2 to 4 wedges
in their bag, yet what sets them apart is their mastery,
through practice. The pros spend hours every day honing
the handle, and medium center section and a firm+ tip their skills with their wedges. The key for them is knowing
profile to promote a high launch angle and low-ball spin their distances with each wedge.
rates. The Tour AD IZ also utilizes TORAYCA ® T1100G
carbon-fiber pre-preg with NANOALLOY ® technology in Grooves in irons channel moisture and grass away from
the tip section of the shaft for additional shaft stability, the club surface, thereby allowing for better, cleaner
exceptional feel and precise ball control. contact with the golf ball much like treads on a tire.

On Tour, Graphite Design shafts recorded 37 Global Bounce is where the trailing edge of the wedge sits below
tournament victories in 2020 and have helped numerous the leading edge at the address position. Generally, for
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