Cobra Puma Golf
The primary week of 2025’s worst-kept secret is already out and it’s an enormous one.
On Wednesday, Cobra Puma Golf introduced the signing of Max Homa to a multi-year endorsement contract to play Cobra golf golf equipment and put on Puma golf sneakers.
The deal comes as considerably of a shock earlier than this week as Homa had been with Titleist and Footjoy since turning skilled in 2013 and performed their gear throughout his standout school profession on the College of California. As of Wednesday morning, Homa was nonetheless listed as a golf ball endorser on Titleist’s web site.
However, after considerably of a down yr in 2024 the place he didn’t win on the PGA Tour for the primary time since 2020 and fell to forty first within the Official World Golf Rating, Homa attended a clinic earlier this week in Hawaii sans any model logos on his hat and bag.
Now Homa is formally the face of a Tour employees that features Rickie Fowler, Lexi Thompson and Gary Woodland, amongst different PGA Tour winners.
“I’m tremendous excited to affix the Cobra Puma Golf workforce. Gear that’s on the reducing fringe of expertise and probably the most snug sneakers within the recreation are an important mixture for any participant,” Homa mentioned in a launch saying the deal. “The Cobra Puma Golf manufacturers are undoubtedly a pure match for my recreation, fashion, and character and I’m trying ahead to a long-term relationship that will likely be enjoyable and thrilling for years to come back.”
Homa was additionally photographed on Tuesday enjoying observe rounds at Kapalua forward of the beginning of the 2025 PGA Tour season on the Sentry utilizing the lately launched Cobra DS-ADAPT LS Driver and dealing with Cobra Tour rep Ben Schomin. Homa appears to be like like he’ll recreation the driving force this week with a Fujikura Ventus Blue 7-X shaft with the FutureFit33 hosel in setting C4.
“All through the testing course of with the Cobra Tour and R&D workforce, I used to be extremely impressed with the efficiency of the golf equipment, and I feel they are going to actually give me a aggressive benefit,” Homa mentioned. “I really like the look, sound and really feel of the brand new DS-ADAPT driver, and the brand new FutureFit33 hosel is a gamer changer when it comes to fine-tuning efficiency.”
The deal permits Homa some freedom to select and select a number of non-Cobra golf equipment — images from Kapalua recommend he’ll nonetheless recreation a Scotty Cameron mallet — however he’ll begin the season with a fairly fascinating combo set of Cobra irons.
Homa will use a Cobra Limit3D 4-iron and a King CB 5-iron together with a customized 6-PW set of prototype 3D-printed irons. Particulars on the prototypes are sparse now, however 3D printing is now permitting Cobra to make one-off units of irons like by no means earlier than.
“What the Cobra workforce was in a position to do with my private set of 3D-printed irons completely blew my thoughts,” Homa mentioned.
Homa may even debut the brand new Puma Ignite Elevate 2 Tour golf shoe, which is ready to be introduced subsequent week.