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Tour Edge Exotics EX9 and EX9 Tour drivers

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Tour Edge Exotics’ new drivers, the EX9 and EX9 Tour, are the lowest-spinning drivers from the company to date, according to Tour Edge president David Glod. They’re also faster than previous models, with a higher moment of inertia that maximizes ball speed, and a Full-Speed Impact design that improves club head speed aerodynamics.

The drivers, made from 6A4V titanium, have what Tour Edge calls a “Hexagonal variable” face, which means the face is designed with different levels of thickness to help boost ball speed in certain areas, especially from the heel and toe.

The EX9 and EX9 Tour drivers also have a narrower “Power Grid” than their predecessors to allow for more face flex, and thus, more ball speed. And, of course, they have the familiar Speed Channel for increased ball speeds across the face.

A "speed channel" behind the face is designed to boost ball speeds across the face.

A “Speed Channel” behind the face is designed to boost ball speeds across the face.

To allow golfers to dial in their launch conditions, both drivers have Exotics’ new hosel that has eight different loft and lie angle settings, making the loft adjustable by +/- 1 degree.

Each of the drivers have a rear weight port that houses an adjustable weight for golfers to dial in swing weight and launch. The drivers come equipped with a standard 6-gram weight, but additional 3- and 9-gram weights can be purchased as a kit or individually.

The EX9 and EX9 Tour have the weight ports in different areas of their heads, however, each of which are strategically positioned for different players.

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The standard EX9 driver (460 cc) comes with an interchangeable weight in the heel to help higher handicappers hit a draw. It’s available in 10- and 12-degree lofts.

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The EX9 Tour head (430 cc), on the other hand, has a weight in the rear of its pear-shaped head to help high spin, high speed players control their spin and trajectory. It’s available in 9- and 10-degree lofts.

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Both drivers have a metallic gloss black finish, and comes with the following shafts:

EX9 ($299.99)

  • Mitsubishi Rayon Bassara E-Series
  • Fujikura Exotics Pro and Pro Tour
  • Matrix Exotics White, Red, and Black Tie

EX9 Tour ($399.99)

  • Aldila Rogue Silver 60- and 70-grams
  • Mitsubishi Rayon Diamana S+, M+, and D+

The new drivers are projected to be in stores on Nov. 15.

See what GolfWRX members are saying in the forums about the new EX9 and EX9 Tour drivers.

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He played on the Hawaii Pacific University Men's Golf team and earned a Masters degree in Communications. He also played college golf at Rutgers University, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism.

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  1. AngeloSansone

    Jul 8, 2017 at 6:24 pm

    Please explain what the black,red and white ties mean in a bass area shaft.

  2. Mark

    Oct 9, 2015 at 4:55 pm

    The whole Exotics EX9 line up looks pretty nice, really interested to see how the new woods perform too.

  3. Randy

    Oct 9, 2015 at 11:19 am

    Where’s the at address look picture of these two drivers

    • Mikey

      Oct 9, 2015 at 11:30 am

      I was wondering the same thing but they have those picture up on the TEE Facebook page

  4. Soonapa

    Oct 8, 2015 at 4:35 pm

    SOS from TEE. Charging for the extra weight kit ! I love their stuff but quit buying it on principle due to these extra charges. I will just wait 3 months and as with all TEE products, get it at deep discounts

    • Mikey

      Oct 8, 2015 at 5:05 pm

      yea, let me go just and buy a $500 M1 and not complain. I would still pay $50 plus $300 from any company over $500 for a tmade driver. Thats why Cally is now number 1

  5. Tim

    Oct 8, 2015 at 10:14 am

    Very impressive looking. Can’t wait to try!

  6. West

    Oct 7, 2015 at 5:31 pm

    Cool, but how does Tour Edge justify $100 for the Tour driver over the standard…did Tour Edge spend $100 more to make it? No…why should we?

    • John

      Oct 7, 2015 at 5:35 pm

      Shafts man…..that would be my guess and I would pay $100 more for the real diamana white board or real rogue

      EX9 ($299.99)
      Mitsubishi Rayon Bassara E-Series
      Fujikura Exotics Pro and Pro Tour
      Matrix Exotics White, Red, and Black Tie

      EX9 Tour ($399.99)
      Aldila Rogue Silver 60- and 70-grams
      Mitsubishi Rayon Diamana S+, M+, and D+

      • west

        Oct 8, 2015 at 11:53 am

        The “real diamana,” “the real rogue?” Not sure if I’m convinced. Look at the costs for these same shaft upgrades off of the Taylormade website. Not the same. TM charges $200 for the D+ and nothing for the S+, and nothing for the Rogue Silver. But Tour Edge charges a flat $100 for these upgrade costs? I find it odd that these club manufacturers have such different price points for these same “add-ons.” Are the various club manufacturers not able to negotiate the same prices their competitors are getting? I doubt it. And I love it how the “upgrade costs” are always such “even numbers” ($100 -flat). The point I’m trying to make is not that Tour Edge isn’t justified in raising the price for a more “premium” product, but that they should only raise the price the difference it costs them to make the more “premium product,” not more. But I guess a lot of us are suckers for having “the best” and paying exorbitant mark-ups even if it is for marginal gains…

        • Tim

          Oct 8, 2015 at 12:22 pm

          I think a lot of people on here would agree that $100 more for those shafts is 100% fair compared to a bassara or fuji pro made for shaft.

        • Tim

          Oct 8, 2015 at 2:57 pm

          also mr. west lets look at the OBVIOUS the Tmade m1 is priced at $500….

    • Ronald

      Oct 7, 2015 at 5:36 pm

      Shafts

    • John

      Oct 7, 2015 at 5:38 pm

      Shafts would be my guess. I would pay $100 more for a real diamana white board or real rogue…just saying.

      EX9 ($299.99)
      Mitsubishi Rayon Bassara E-Series
      Fujikura Exotics Pro and Pro Tour
      Matrix Exotics White, Red, and Black Tie

      EX9 Tour ($399.99)
      Aldila Rogue Silver 60- and 70-grams
      Mitsubishi Rayon Diamana S+, M+, and D+

    • west

      Oct 8, 2015 at 11:51 am

      The “real diamana,” “the real rogue?” Not sure if I’m convinced. Look at the costs for these same shaft upgrades off of the Taylormade website. Not the same. TM charges $200 for the D+ and nothing for the S+, and nothing for the Rogue Silver. But Tour Edge charges a flat $100 for these upgrade costs? I find it odd that these club manufacturers have such different price points for these same “add-ons.” Are the various club manufacturers not able to negotiate the same prices their competitors are getting? I doubt it. And I love it how the “upgrade costs” are always such “even numbers” ($100 -flat). The point I’m trying to make is not that Tour Edge isn’t justified in raising the price for a more “premium” product, but that they should only raise the price the difference it costs them to make the more “premium product,” not more. But I guess a lot of us are suckers for having “the best” and paying exorbitant mark-ups even if it is for marginal gains…

      • Ryan

        Oct 8, 2015 at 2:44 pm

        The M1 and the Great Big Bertha have no up charge shafts because they are already priced higher than the Tour Edge drivers.

      • Hamish

        Nov 19, 2015 at 7:50 am

        If you don’t have the facts buy one and remove the grip and read the shaft label and were it was made. Please don’t speculate. Post Facts ONLY!
        FWIW; TEE has installed REAL shafts in offerings e.g CB Pro / 757. Based on their past honesty why should you doubt them unless you have a agenda supporting other brands.

  7. Ben

    Oct 7, 2015 at 4:16 pm

    love!!!

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Kevin Tway WITB 2024 (May)

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Driver: Ping G430 LST (10.5 degrees)
Shaft: Fujikura Ventus Black 6 X

3-wood: TaylorMade Stealth 2 (15 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 80 TX

5-wood: TaylorMade Stealth 2 (18 degrees)
Shaft: Mitsubishi Diamana D+ 90 TX

Irons: Wilson Staff Utility (2), Titleist T100 (4-9)
Shafts: Mitsubishi MMT 100 TX (2), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (4-9)

Wedges: Titleist Vokey Design SM10 (48-10F @47, 52-12F @51, 56-14F), SM7 (60-10S)
Shafts: True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue X100 (48-56), True Temper Dynamic Gold Tour Issue S400 (60)

Putter: Scotty Cameron T-5 Proto
Grip: Scotty Cameron Black Baby T

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet Plus4

More photos of Kevin Tway’s WITB in the forums.

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Did Rory McIlroy inspire Shane Lowry’s putter switch?

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Editor’s note: This is an excerpt from a piece our Andrew Tursky originally wrote for PGATour.com’s Equipment Report. Head over there for the full article.

The timing of Lowry’s putter changeup was curious: Was he just using a Spider putter because he was paired with McIlroy, who’s been using a Spider Tour X head throughout 2024? Was Lowry just being festive because it’s the Zurich Classic, and he wanted to match his teammate? Did McIlroy let Lowry try his putter, and he liked it so much he actually switched into it?

Well, as it turns out, McIlroy’s only influence was inspiring Lowry to make more putts.

When asked if McIlroy had an influence on the putter switch, Lowry had this to say: “No, it’s actually a different putter than what he uses. Maybe there was more pressure there because I needed to hole some more putts if we wanted to win,” he said with a laugh.

To Lowry’s point, McIlroy plays the Tour X model, whereas Lowry switched into the Tour Z model, which has a sleeker shape in comparison, and the two sole weights of the club are more towards the face.

Lowry’s Spider Tour Z has a white True Path Alignment channel on the crown of his putter, which is reminiscent of Lowry’s former 2-ball designs, thus helping to provide a comfort factor despite the departure from his norm. Instead of a double-bend hosel, which Lowry used in his 2-ball putters, his new Spider Tour Z is designed with a short slant neck.

“I’ve been struggling on the greens, and I just needed something with a fresh look,” Lowry told GolfWRX.com on Wednesday at the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship. “It has a different neck on it, as well, so it moves a bit differently, but it’s similar. It has a white line on the back of it [like my 2-ball], and it’s a mallet style. So it’s not too drastic of a change.

“I just picked it up on the putting green and I liked the look of it, so I was like, ‘Let’s give it a go.’”

Read the rest of the piece over at PGATour.com.

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Webb Simpson equipment Q&A: Titleist’s new 2-wood, 680 blade irons, and switching to a broomstick Jailbird

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With seven career wins on the PGA Tour, including a U.S. Open victory, Webb Simpson is a certified veteran on the course. But he’s also a certified veteran in the equipment world, too. He’s a gearhead who truly knows his stuff, and he’s even worked closely with Titleist on making his own custom 682.WS irons.

On Wednesday at the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship, I caught up with Simpson to hear about his experience with Titleist’s new prototype 2-wood, how Titleist’s 680 Forged irons from 2003 ended up back in his bag, and why he’s switching into an Odyssey Ai-One Jailbird Cruiser broomstick putter this week for the first time.

Click here to read our full story about Simpson’s putter switch on PGATOUR.com’s Equipment Report, or continue reading below for my full Q&A with Simpson at Quail Hollow Club on Wednesday.

See Webb Simpson’s full WITB from the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship here

GolfWRX: It seems like you’ve been a little all over the place with your irons in the past six months or so, and now going back to the 680’s. Is that just a comfort thing? What’s been going on with the irons?

Webb Simpson: Titleist has been so great at working with me, and R&D, on trying to get an iron that kind of modernizes the 680. And so the 682.WS took the T100 grooves, but kinda took the look and the bulk and the build of the 680’s into one club. They’re beautiful, and awesome looking. I just never hit them that well for a consistent period of time. It was probably me, but then I went to T100’s and loved them. I loved the spin, the trajectory, the yardage, but again, I never went on good runs. Going through the ground, I couldn’t feel the club as well as with the blade. So last week, I’m like, ‘Alright. I’m gonna go back more for…comfort, and see if I can get on a nice little run of ball striking.’

So that’s why I went back.

 

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OK, that makes sense. I know you had done some 2-wood testing recently. Is that in the bag right now?

It’s like day-by-day. I used it at Hilton Head every day. Valero, I used it one round. And this week, me and my caddie will do the book every morning, and if it’s a day where we think we need it, we’ll just put it in and take the 3-wood out. I love it because it’s a super simple swap. Like, it doesn’t really change much.

Yeah, can you tell me about that club? I mean, we don’t really know anything about it yet. You know? I haven’t hit it or anything, obviously.

It has grooves like a 3-wood. Spin is perfect. And it’s honestly, like, everything is in the middle of a 3-wood and driver number. Trajectory, spin, carry, all of it. So, a Hilton Head golf course is almost too easy to talk about because, you know, there, so many holes are driver 3-wood.

Valero, our thinking was we had two par-5’s into the wind, and we knew that it would take two great shots to get there in two. So instead of hitting driver-driver, we just put it in. And I used it on those holes.

Hilton was a little easier because it was off-the-tee kind of questions. But Colonial will be a golf course where, you know, there’s a lot of driver or 3-woods. It’s kind of like a backup putter or driver for me now. I’ll bring it to every tournament.

So it’s, like, in your locker right now, probably?

Well, it would be. It’s in my house [because Webb lives near by Quail Hollow Club, and is a member at the course.] It’s in the garage.

Oh, yeah, that’s right. Do you know what holes you might use it out here if it goes in play? 

Potentially 15, depending on the wind. Second shot on 10. Could be 14 off the tee. The chances here are pretty low (that he’ll use the 2-wood). But, like, Greensboro would be an awesome club all day. I’m trying to think of any other golf courses.

There’s plenty that it’ll be a nice weapon to have.

It’s interesting, the wave of 2-woods and mini drivers. Like, it’s just really taken off on Tour, and all the companies have seemed to embrace it.

Yeah. The thing I had to learn, it took me, like, at least a week to learn about it is you gotta tee it up lower than you think. I kept teeing it up too high. You need it low, like barely higher than a 3-wood. And that was where I got optimal spin and carry. If you tee it up too high, you just don’t get as much spin and lose distance, I don’t know if that’s just a mini driver thing.

And you obviously have a Jailbird putter this week. What spurred that on?

Inconsistent putting. I’m stubborn in a lot of ways when it comes to my equipment, but I have to be open minded – I just hadn’t putted consistently well in a while. And I’m like, ‘Man, I feel my ball-striking coming along. Like I feel better; for real, better.’

If I can just get something in my hands that I’m consistent with. Being on Tour, you see it every year, guys get on little runs. I can put together four to five tournaments where I’m all the sudden back in the majors, or in the FedExCup Playoffs. You can turn things around quick out here. I’m like, ‘Man, whatever’s going to get me there, great.’

My caddie, David Cook, caddied for Akshay at the Houston Open and he putted beautifully. Then, I watched Akshay on TV at Valero, and he putted beautifully. And, I’m like, ‘I’m just going to try it.’

I’ve never tried it for more than a putt or two, and I just ordered what Akshay uses. It was pretty awkward at first, but the more I used it, the more I’m like, ‘Man, it’s pretty easy.’ And a buddy of mine who’s a rep out here, John Tyler Griffin, he helped me with some setup stuff. And he said at Hilton Head, he wasn’t putting well, then tried it, and now he makes everything. He was very confident. So I’m like, ‘Alright, I’ll try it.’”

And you’re going with it this week?

Hundred percent.

Alright, I love it. Thank you, I always love talking gear with you. Play well this week. 

Thanks, man.

See Webb Simpson’s full WITB from the 2024 Wells Fargo Championship here

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