Does Cobra’s FF33 hosel need 33 settings? What a designer says

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

By far the most groundbreaking of the innovations in the DS-ADAPT fairway woods and hybrids was the FutureFit33 hosel (FF33) which features 33 different settings for adjusting the lie and loft of the clubhead to fit whatever a golfer needs. DS-ADAPT clubs can be adjusted plus or minus two degrees with both loft and lie angle while maintaining a square club face.

But with so many options, one has to wonder if 33 settings is overkill or that many settings are intimidating to the average golfer, the vast majority of which do not use the adjustable settings on their driver.

On 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 they lock onto the right one for them.

“Once you find out what quadrant you’re missing in, you go with the opposite quadrant,” Moraflor said, referencing the chart of settings that can be pulled up with a QR code a DS-ADAPT Club’s hosel. “And now if you just pick two or three out of there, direct opposite to bring you back to A1 [standard loft and lie], you’re only going to need to try maybe two to three, maybe four settings at the most.”

For instance, if you find you’re hitting the ball high and right, the suggestion is to find quadrant for high and right (B6) and then go to the most extreme setting in the opposite quadrant (F2) and test that one and the three surrounding (F1, F3 and G1).

But that method typically might overlook the inner settings, which feature changes of just a few tenths of a degree in loft and lie changes. But those are the settings that have been crucial to Cobra’s staff of Tour players.

“I got to go work with the tour team and filming our commercials and doing 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 that they don’t use the outsides at all. So for most golfers where you’re going to use the outer circles and use those adjustability, for the better amateur, it’s going to be the one inside that.

“And for our tour pros, it’s the ones that’s the tightest. So when we talked to them and said, what would you change in your ball flight, they would point at an inner circle. So now we just go to the opposite side.”

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

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