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Tour Edge launches new Exotics CBX 119 fairways and hybrids

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Tour Edge launches new Exotics CBX 119 fairways and hybrids


    To design its new Exotics CBX 119 fairway woods and hybrids, Tour Edge combined previous designs with feedback from TOUR players. The result is a lower-spinning, more forgiving fairway wood design, and a hybrid that’s lower spinning with more playability, according to the company.

    Tour Edge says that its president and master club designer David Glod, in conjunction with the R&D team, combined the designs of the original CBX fairway wood launched in 2017 with the CBX-3, which was more compact and deeper-faced.

    The team also paid close attention to the changes that TOUR players have been asking for throughout the years.

    “Even if a change was slight, in terms of say a couple millimeters, we took it into account,” said Glod. “The end result is that we made even better versions of the best metalwoods on the market and the majority of the changes made were based on direct Tour player feedback. What better person is there to talk to about how to improve a golf club than a group of tour players who had already put CBX into play and that represent over 200 PGA TOUR victories in their combined careers?”

    To reduce spin, Tour Edge widened the sole by 15 percent; that resulted in a higher CG (center of gravity), which lowered spin, and it also increased MOI (moment of inertia), resulting in more forgiveness. Additionally, Tour Edge increased the area of carbon fiber on the sole, allowing the company to push weight closer to the face, thus further reducing spin. Overall, with a new Titanium face plate, a stainless steel body and larger carbon panels on the sole, Tour Edge reports that 25 percent of weight was saved and placed more strategically.

    Glod and his team say that reducing spin is the key to distance.

    “Reducing spin is the number one key to adding distance to a lofted club like a fairway or a hybrid,” said Glod. “If we will lower the spin significantly, we will win the distance battle.”

    The new CBX 119 hybrid, again based on TOUR feedback, is shorter heel-to-toe than previous CBX designs, which Tour Edge says makes the clubs more workable and lower spinning. To further reduce spin, they also have taller faces. The faces are made of larger Beta-Titanium for more face flex, according to the company, increasing ball speed across the face.

    “…we molded the old design with tour player feedback to come up the new 119 version,” said Glod. “With the new CBX 119, the changes to the hybrid are a little more visible than the fairway. The club seems more compact at address and with a blunter toe; even though it is the same exact CC’s as the original. These extra CC’s went to the face height. The 119 will also have more pop off the face due to the beta-Titanium face.”

    Aesthetically, the CBX 119 clubs have a red-white-and-blue color scheme, according to Tour Edge, because the company’s clubs are “100 percent built in the United States out of Tour Edge’s Batavia, Illinois headquarters.”

    The Tour Edge CBX 119 fairway woods (13.5, 15, 16.5, and 18 degrees) come stock with Project X Even Flow Red, White and Blue series or Project X HZRDUS Smoke shafts, and will sell for $299.99. The hybrids (16, 17, 18, 19 and 21 degrees) will sell for $249.99. All products are available at retail on Jan. 25.

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