You know him best as the co-host of GOLF’s popular Subpar podcast, but this week, Drew Stoltz is launching an additional new explainer series of his own: Emergency 9, presented by Cobra. The first topic? How to use — and optimize! — Cobra’s innovative FutureFit33 technology.
FutureFit33 was introduced in this year’s line of Cobra DS-APAPT products, and allows you to adjust the adjust loft and lie of your DS-ADAPT metals by plus or minus 2 degrees in every direction — enabling 33 total setting options! — to dial-in your launch, speed, and control.
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But what does using the technology look like in real life? Stoltz headed to the range to find out.
“Basically, no matter what your ball flight is, when you step up and hit these drivers, there’s a setting on here that can neutralize it and get it as close to straight as possible, or whatever shot shape you like, left to right or right to left,” Stoltz said.
Stoltz stared his optimization process with the A1 setting.
“A1 is like the baseline degrees of loft,” he said. “It’s on a standard setting — that’s exactly where it is right now — and then we’ll be able to move it up a degree in loft, down a degree in loft. We can make it flatter, we can make it more upright, and hopefully find the ball flight that works for us.”
Stoltz’s first swing with the A1 setting resulted in a ball flight that was high and left — not his preferred shot shape. For tests at home, you’ll want to hit a handful of shots to determine which ball flight is the most consistent.
“I’m more of a guy that likes to see the ball go left to right,” Stoltz said. “I also like it down maybe a window or two.”
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Once you know your ball flight from the A1 setting, and you have an idea of the ball flight you want to achieve, all you need to do is use the FutureFit33 QR code, which reveals a chart that shows you which letter configuration you need to use in the setting to achieve the ball flight you want.
“It gives you a big diagram,” Stoltz said. “For example, for me, I’m high and to the left. I want the ball to go low and to the right, so I’ll grab the letters that are down on the lower and the right side of the chart, set it up to that, and then give it a go.”
With the new recommended setting of H4, Stoltz’s next shot performed just as he desired.
“As you can see, that ball flight came down,” Stoltz said. “I got a little more of that left to right that I’m looking for as opposed to that high and left before, and it’s that easy.”
Stoltz loved the fact that he could make these changes to his ball flight without tweaking his swing.
“It’s just a couple of clicks of the wrench,” he said.
For more from Stoltz on Cobra’s FutureFit33 technology, check out the full video above.
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