Cobra Golf Clubs
Cobra OPTM Drivers Compared: LS, X, MAX-K and MAX-D
Four heads, four problems, and how to identify which one is yours.
OPTM LS
The low-spin head, with adjustable weighting. Built for golfers whose problem is a ball that climbs, stalls and drops short despite good speed.
The requirement is consistency, not just speed. A fast golfer with a scattered strike loses more to LS’s reduced forgiveness than they gain from its reduced spin. This head is narrower in fit than its popularity suggests.
OPTM X
The all-rounder, and the sensible default. Balanced launch and spin, meaningful forgiveness, and adjustable weighting for fine tuning.
If you have no specific driver problem — no slice, no spin issue, no launch struggle — this is your head. Most golfers who test the whole family end up here.
OPTM MAX-K
Very high MOI, and the most forgiving head in the range. Weight pushed to the extremes of the head so off-centre strikes twist it less.
Forgiveness is not a beginner’s feature. It is what protects your average drive, and plenty of good golfers would drive the ball better from this head than from LS.
OPTM MAX-D
Draw biased, with fixed heel weighting. That word matters: the bias is built in rather than adjustable, so it is a stronger and more permanent correction than a movable weight provides.
Built for one specific golfer — someone whose miss is consistently right and who wants the club to help square the face.
The MAX-D honesty check
A draw-biased driver helps a golfer who slices consistently. It does not help a golfer who hits it both ways, and it actively hurts a golfer who already draws the ball.
Before buying MAX-D, confirm your miss is genuinely one-directional. If your bad drives go left as often as right, this head will convert some of your rights into hooks and you will have traded one problem for a worse one.
Choosing between them
- Strike wanders, distance inconsistent → MAX-K.
- Consistent slice → MAX-D.
- No specific problem → X.
- Fast, consistent, spinning too much → LS.
Testing whether the bias actually works
Draw bias is the easiest driver claim to be fooled by. You hit six shots, two come out lovely and straight, and you conclude the head has cured you — while quietly discounting the other four.
FocusGolf keeps the whole record. It runs on Wear OS, Apple Watch and Garmin, detects each swing automatically with nothing clipped to the club, and logs swing speed, tempo and shot distance throughout the session. Hit fifteen with your current driver and fifteen with MAX-D, then compare the two blocks in your session history. If the bias is working, it will show up across all fifteen rather than in the two you remember.
Fitting tip: Test every OPTM head on the same shaft. Changing head and shaft together tells you nothing about which one produced the change.
Model names current as of September 2026.