Gear: Tour Edge Exotics E725, C725 hybrids
Price: $229.99 (E725) and $249.99 (C725) with Project X HZRDUS Red, Smoke Black RDX or Mitsubishi TENSEI AV Blue shafts and Golf Pride Tour Velvet 360 grip.
Specs: Maraging steel face with a stainless steel body with carbon fiber crown (E725). Maraging steel face with titanium body and adjustable hosel (C725). Available lofts – 19, 22, 25 degrees (E725); 17, 19, and 21 degrees (C725).
Available: October 15 (pre-order); November 1 (in-stores).
Who it’s for: The Exotics E725 hybrids are designed for golfers who want more forgiveness, stability, and easy launch from a fairway wood-style hybrid, while the Exotics C725 hybrids are made for better players seeking reduced spin, a more penetrating flight, and workability from an iron-style hybrid.
What you should know: The Exotics E725 is a game-improvement hybrid featuring a slightly larger profile and low-back weighting to promote a higher launch and added stability. The Exotics C725, in contrast, has a compact, tour-inspired shape and adjustable hosel and produces lower spin and a more controlled trajectory.
The deep dive: The Tour Edge Exotics E725 and C725 hybrids may share a brand and lineup, but they were made to appeal to different players and golfers with different needs.
The Exotics E725 has a larger footprint and lower profile that is engineered to inspire confidence at address. It utilizes a stainless-steel construction combined with a carbon fiber crown that reduces weight on the top of the head and naturally lowers the center of gravity (CG) location.
The saved weight on the top allowed engineers to redistribute more weight low and back in the head using a 10-gram weight in the back of the sole. This weight distribution encourages higher spin rates, a higher launch angle and a steep angle of descent, so shots should stop faster on the greens. Having the extra weight in the back-middle of the sole also elevates the moment of inertia (MOI), so the Exotics E725 hybrids should twist less on off-center hits and allow golfers to hit straighter shots.
Like the Exotics E725 fairway woods, Tour Edge designed the hybrids with its head-stiffening 360-Degree Ridgeback technology, and 3D Diamond Face. While the hitting area may look like a regular face, on the inner-facing side, 41 diamond-shaped ridges act like miniature trampolines to broaden the sweet spot and protect ball speed on off-center strikes.
Finally, Tour Edge added a channel behind the leading edge to allow the lower portion of the hitting area to flex more efficiently on thin shots.
While the fairway wood-style Exotics E725 is designed to appeal to mid- and higher-handicap golfers, the Exotics C725 hybrids are iron-style clubs crafted for accomplished players who like to work the ball. They feature a more compact head size and shorter blade length.
The Exotics C725 hybrids were also designed with a stainless steel chassis and face, along with a carbon fiber crown, 360-Degree Ridgeback technology and 3D Diamond Face, but instead of having a fixed weight in the back of the head, the 10-gram weight can be adjusted into three positions–draw, neutral and fade–to allow accomplished players to shape shots more easily.
The Exotics C725 hybrids also have an eight-position adjustable hosel to increase or decrease the stated loft by up to 1.5 degrees, which is helpful for fitters who want to create precise distance gaps.
With a smaller head size and more squared shape, which low-handicap golfers tend to like, the CG location in the Exotics C725 is closer to the face, so it should produce a lower shot than the E725 hybrids, along with less spin and more ball speed.
