By Leonard Finkel
Based on initial feedback from some of the game’s best players, the Exotics CBX hybrid is a versatile club with exceptional feel. It’s intended for players who want to maximize distance off the tee as well as from the fairway. For a small company, Tour Edge is making a big splash in the 2018 season. The company has more than 83 clubs in play, 1 win, seven top 5 finishes, fifteen top 10 finishes and twenty-nine top 25 finishes.
This year, the CBX hybrid was sent to the PGA Champions Tour and immediately put into the bags of several players, ultimately earning a second-place finish at the Senior Players Championship.
Tom Lehman is playing an 18° Exotics CBX hybrid with a Project X HZRDUS BLACK 105. He’s also played a 15° Exotics CBX fairway wood this season. He’s had Tour Edge in his bag for his last six events, first putting it into play at the Boca Raton Championship and earned one top-10 and three top-25 finishes in that time. Lehman is the only golfer in history to have been awarded Player of the Year honors on all three PGA Tours: the regular PGA Tour, Web.com Tour and PGA Tour Champions. His has five PGA TOUR championships (including the 1996 British Open), two European Tour wins and 10 PGA Tour Champions victories. Lehman
Rocco Mediate switched to Exotics at the Colorguard Classic and finished 5th at the event. In the very next event, the Toshiba Classic, he finished 6th. Mediate is playing both an Exotics CBX hybrid and fairway wood. The hybrid is a 19° with a Fujikura Pro 95 X shaft. Mediate has PGA Tour career earnings of over $16 million with six PGA TOUR titles and three PGA Tour Champions victories.
In development for over two years, the hybrid is designed with multi-material construction that includes top of the line beta titanium, hyper steel and carbon composite. This unique combination produces a penetrating ball flight that cuts through windy conditions and lowers sidespin for greater accuracy.
When Tour Edge engineers introduced their first Exotics fairway wood, they created new benchmarks for distance and power in a fairway wood. The CBX Exotics has once again taken distance gains to another level to bring power to your game. The engine of the CBX fairway is a beta titanium cup face that is combo-brazed (a weldless process) to a hyper-steel body. The fairway wood features variable face thickness for added power and added forgiveness on off-center hits.
Other Champions Tour players have had immediate success after putting the CBX hybrid into play including Bart Bryan who garnered three top-25 finishes at the start of the season and Scott Dunlap who has earned two top 10 finishes and a runner-up at the Cologuard Classic. Both players also play an Exocitcs CBX fairway wood.
Say Tour Edge President and master club designer David Glod. “We are a company with 10 wins on the regular PGA TOUR, but this breakneck pace is unprecedented for us. It just goes to show you how good Exotics CBX is for the player needing reduced spin in their metalwoods. We are gaining new players every week on tour and I believe the buzz has finally reached the golfing consumer that there is a new Exotics club that is attracting a cult-like following again due to its extreme performance attributes.”
Leonard Finkel is the author of The Secrets to the Game of Golf & Life and former editor in chief of Golf Journeys Magazine. His work has been featured in almost 200 publications including Golf Magazine, Golf Digest, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Golf Illustrated, Golf Tips and Player Magazine. He has written more than a dozen cover stories for Golf Today Magazine. He has written extensively about golf and travel and has added poker to his writing repertoire. Finkel also works as a marketing and public relations consultant. His specialty niche is writing advertorial copy. Prior to his career in golf, Finkel owned a chain of retail stores and a consulting and import company based in Asia. He attended the University of Utah.