When JB Holmes triumphed in the recent PGA Tour Wells Fargo Championship, he used Tour Edge Exotics CB Pro hybrids – an award-winning brand which is now on full release in the UK.
In addition to Holmes, Chris Kirk has also won on Tour using Tour Edge Exotics – he had the CB Pro 13.5 degree three-wood in his bag when he claimed this season’s McGladrey Classic.
To confirm its status as a specialist equipment manufacturer, Illinois-based Tour Edge saw six of its clubs hailed in the Golf Digest Hot List for 2014 – highlighting what professional golfers have known for years.
The unsung manufacturer – which refuses to pay professional golfers to endorse its products, yet has many in use on the PGA Tour – received two gold and four silver medals in the magazine’s prestigious annual benchmark supplement.
The XCG7/XCG7 Beta fairway wood took top honours with gold medals, while the CB PRO fairway wood, XCG7/XCG7 Beta hybrids and the XCG7 irons achieved a still-highly-prized silver.
The gold-medal-winning XCG7 fairway wood is designed with greater forgiveness in mind, featuring a lower profile and larger club head. It has a custom 465 forged, superior-strength maraging steel cup face to produce massive launch speed and superior length.
Likewise, the XCG7 Beta model, the second gold-medal winner, is highlighted by a deeper face and a smaller club-head to promote a more boring trajectory. It features a forged, beta titanium cup face for supreme coefficient of restitution (COR). The face is combo-brazed to the hyper-steel body to produce Exotics renowned performance.
The two versions of the XCG7 are designed to offer two distinctly different ball flights and performance to suit different players: The Beta offering a stronger ball flight, with lower spin, while the Ti is more forgiving, with a higher ball flight and optimum spin rates for the average golfer.
Tour Edge’s silver-medal-winning Exotics CB PRO – known visually for its unique sole design – is the ultimate fairway wood for accomplished players. The patent-pending Slip Stream™ sole and advanced club-head technology reduces drag through the air and, at impact, there are only two small areas contacting the turf ensuring more speed can be transferred to the ball at impact, to reach the USGA-allowed CT (characteristic time)maximum of 250.
The XCG7 hybrid is Exotics’ most forgiving design to date. It is larger, easy-to-hit, and is a higher trajectory model with a lower profile. Hexahedron sole-weight pads are positioned back in the heel and toe to increase MOI (moment of inertia) and maximise stability on off-centre contact.
Meanwhile, the XCG7 Beta has a more compact shape and deeper face for more penetrating ball flight. The weight-pad design positions more weight forward in the head, raising the centre of gravity to produce a more penetrating trajectory.
The XCG7 iron, which won silver in the ‘SuperGame-Improvement’ category, features Exotics’ most-advanced technology in a game-improvement iron. Constructed from 431 stainless steel, in a one-piece casting, the XCG7 iron provides enhanced feel and stability in a more classic-style head design.
The new XCG7 set is completed by the adjustable driver – with loft options from 8½ to 12 degrees in ½ degree increments – which features upgraded performance in a 6A4V titanium 460cc driver head, with an easy-launching, high trajectory. The weighting positions the centre of gravity in the optimal location; lower and deeper in the head for mid-spin and a higher launch angle.
All Tour Edge Exotics products feature the lifetime warranty and 30-day play guarantee.
David Glod, founder, president and chief designer of Tour Edge Golf, said: “This year we had our best results with six medals in three categories. This is a true testament that our product designs and technologies are of the highest quality. Our Exotics brand continues to grow as one of the most technologically supreme club manufacturers, and we will always continue to build on that.”
Glod founded Tour Edge, in 1985, to provide a high-quality product at an affordable price. He designed his first club in 1987 and never looked back, producing the industry’s first-heel weighted club: the Fiber-Sonic iron. Offering exceptional pricing and superior performance, Tour Edge is now one of the fastest-growing manufacturers in the golf industry.
Prices start at £149, for the hybrids; £219, fairway woods; £299, drivers.
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