Bout Edge sure has been busy the final few weeks. We've already seen an entire metalwoods lineup, and now it's time to start talking about irons.

For 2016 Tour Edge has offered upwardly three singled-out iron sets, and every bit should exist the example, each atomic number 26 in this reasonably well-differentiated trio is aimed at a specific segment of the marketplace.

So which Exotics iron might exist right for you? To help figure that out, nosotros think it makes the best sense to kickoff in the middle.

Tour Edge Exotics EXi

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As you can see, Tour Edge is billing the EXi as offering Power, Control, and Workability. To me that suggests a balanced iron aimed right at the middle of the market.  It's a Goldilocks offering…non as well large, not to small, not too much showtime, not likewise little. Basically Tour Edge hopes this fe will be but right.

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We start with the EXi because its where Bout Border technology overlaps, and that should relieve us some time.

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With this release Bout Edge joins TaylorMade in offering a sole slot. This particular accommodation is designed to promote altitude and feel. A dual undercut cavity further helps to promote distance, while Tour Edge claims its VFT (variable face thickness) technology helps maintain speed across the face.

Let's call that forgiveness.

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Finally, a Thermo-plastic elastomer insert helps to dampen vibrations and improve feel.

If we're existence honest, from a applied science standpoint, there'due south nothing truly unique almost the EXi, but information technology does requite Tour Border some skin in the game at a competitive cost.

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The EXi volition retail for $599 with KBS Tour xc Steel Shafts and $699 with UST Recoil (460, 670, or 680) Graphite.

Tour Border Exotics EXd

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The true game-comeback option in the new lineup, the EXd features much of the same applied science as the EXi bundled into a larger, longer, and more forgiving package.

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The EXd has a slot, VFT engineering science, an unsupported face (more distance), the deepest undercut cavity of whatsoever Tour Edge iron (more distance and forgiveness), along with Tungsten sole weights for added stability.

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To farther promote distance where golfers need it most, Tour Edge has, by its own access, jacked the lofts on the 3-6 irons.

One time once more, nosotros don't see anything truly unique with this item iron, but the specs exercise propose Tour Edge is taking strides to catch upward with its competitors within the iron category.

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Retail price for the EXd is as well $599 steel/$699 graphite, and the stock shaft offerings are the same equally plant on the EXi.

Exotics CB Pro

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The most intriguing offering within the 2016 Tour Edge fe lineup is, in my opinion, the CB Pro. While Tour Edge is calling the Pro the most technologically avant-garde set of exotics irons e'er, what'southward of particular interest to me is that the Pro is such a radical departure from previous iterations of Tour Border's Pro irons.

The concluding time nosotros took a difficult look at Tour Border Pro iron it was a blade, and a pretty damn good one at that. While peradventure a bit unexpected from Tour Edge, the Pro was among the most compact blades on the market place, and it offered outstanding feel.

Even if virtually didn't realize it at the time, the old Pro was but virtually everything a purist could want from a blade.

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This CB Pro is dissimilar. Its overall story reads like that of a distance fe wrapped in a smaller package. That's not necessarily a bad thing.

The reality is that the market for true blades is not only small, it'south dwindling as more and more golfers wise-upwards to the benefits of not playing blades. For a company the size of Tour Edge, getting whatsoever sort of ROI on a blade is difficult. As I said, it'south a express market to begin with and Titleist, Mizuno, and a few select others come across what demand there is exceptionally well.

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Doing something different makes sense.

The Exotics CB Pro features hollow body design (distance and forgiveness), with a wide sole bolstered by a significant corporeality of Tungsten weighting. One time once more, nosotros've got VFT (altitude and forgiveness).

Patently we can't say for certain until we have the CB Pros in-hand, but it'south a story that sounds a bit like that of the PXG 0311. Effectively nosotros're talking about an iron built to be long and forgiving, squeezed into a package that could appeal to better players, and even average golfers who want a traditionally-lofted iron that's a fiddling less in your face up.

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Information technology's entirely possible that Tour Edge looked at the larger iron market, and saw an opportunity to offer something slightly unexpected. The CB Pro would seem to fit the description.

The Tour Edge Exotics CB Pro volition retail for $799 (steel) and $899 (graphite). Every bit with the rest of the new lineup, KBS Bout 90 and UST Recoil are the stock shaft offerings?

Does Any Of It Affair?

While Tour Edge metalwoods, and fairway woods in particular have a sterling reputation and relish a bit of a cult following, the company'south irons accept never resonated quite the same style – even among Bout Edge fans.

Will these new irons change that? Do you see anything in these new designs that makes you excited to try Tour Edge irons?

For more information, visit the Tour Border Golf Website.