CBX T3 grows Tour Edge’s already impressive fairway metal line-up

It’s another solid release from the little company that could.

By Tony Dear

[easyazon_infoblock align=”right” identifier=”B073X9B4BC” locale=”US” tag=”coloradoavidg-20″]We’ve always enjoyed featuring clubs from Tour Edge, David Glod’s Illinois-based enterprise born in 1986. For years, the company that grew out of Glod’s father’s garage, relied almost entirely on word of mouth, small-scale marketing programs, and the quality of its products to survive. And survive it did, establishing itself as one of the main players at the mid-price-point, while also creating the acclaimed, higher-end Exotics line in 2004.

Somewhere along its timeline, Tour Edge filled the void left by the disappearance of Orlimar and its TriMetal fairway wood by introducing a number of fairway metals whose impressive performance motivated bigger OEMs to focus more of their R&D budgets on this category of clubs.

The Exotics CB line was aimed primarily at better players and featured titanium cup faces combo-brazed (hence CB) to steel and Hypersteel bodies. “Combo-brazing involves heating the clubhead to 700 degrees Centigrade for nine hours,” says Jon Claffey, Tour Edge’s Vice-President of Marketing. “It’s the only way you can bond titanium to steel – a chemical reaction that can’t be done by welding. It’s used a lot in bike-manufacturing, but our producer owns the patent for golf clubs.”

The Tour Edge CBX T3, which begins shipping next Tuesday (May 15^th) isn’t so much a successor to, or replacement of, the popular CBX fairway wood released last September, but more of a niche offering built for players with faster swingspeeds and those looking to work the ball – sounds like a Tour player to us and, indeed, the ‘T’ does stand for Tour.

The Tour Edge CBX T3 version is more compact than its stablemate – 162cc compared with 167, and slightly shorter from heel to toe. The face is slightly deeper, however, nudging the center of gravity (CG) a little higher, reducing spin and launching the ball on the lower, more piercing trajectory preferred by pros and top amateurs. The rear section of the sole is made of carbon which also contributes to the CG’s forward/high position.

The Speed Ramp sole minimizes turf interaction at impact enabling the clubhead to move through impact with little disturbance from the ground.

The Exotics CBX T3 is already being played by one PGA Tour player, and in February Joe Durant won the Chubb Classic on the PGA Tour Champions with a prototype CBX T3 in the bag.

$350
Available in: 13.5°, 15°, 16.5°
Stock shafts – Nine Project X HZRDUS models, and four Mitsubishi Kuro Kage Silver DUAL-CORE TiNi shafts]
www.touredge.com – Click below to get the non-tour version

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