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Tour Edge Exotics EXS Iron Set Review

If you’re like most golfers you don’t know too much about the cure egg brand. Luckily this Tour Edge Exotics iron set review is on hand to tell you everything you need to know about these awesome game improvement irons.

Tour Edge Exotics EXS Iron Features

Spiderweb technology.

The first feature we’re going to cover of these tour edge exotic EXO ass irons is there spiderweb technology. This technology works to act as a spiderweb behind the club face enlarging the sweet spot making it easier for golfers to make quality contact.

This increase sweet spot is incredibly helpful for beginner or high handicap golfer’s. The larger sweet spot means if you’re not hitting the ball quite in the centre of the club you can still receive a great result.

LaunchPad Technology

The second feature we’re going to cover on these irons is there launchpad technology. These irons are fit with a polymer coating that works to improve the performance of the irons face.

The irons are coded with a special performance gel. It works to increase the spring effect as well as absorb shock. This feature will increase the ball speed as it leaves your club. As well as reduce shock and vibrations you will feel in your hands if you happen to hit the ball thin.

Extreme Toe Weighing

The extreme towing is another fantastic feature of these irons that make them great for beginners. This heavy toll waiting increases the forgiveness of this club by growing the Sweet Spot.

A 19 g tungsten weight is placed on the toe of this iron. What this does is increase the forgiveness of the iron. Therefore giving you quality results even if the ball is slightly miss hit.

Hollow Body Cavity

The hollow body cavity is yet another feature that makes these two were edge irons perfect for someone looking to improve their golf game. The hollow body cavity provide perimeter waiting and face flex in order to make the club more forgiving.

By allowing the face to flex you will not feel the iron spin in your hands. This is another aspect of this club that allows you to get some solid results. Even if the ball is hit off center.

Thin Top Line

The thin top line is more of an aesthetic feature that is built into these golf clubs. Since these are irons built for game improvement they often have a much thicker build. With a thinner top line this model will look more like an iron upon address giving you more confidence when addressing the ball .

Cost And Value

One of the best benefits of these clubs is their extremely low price tag. As of writing this these irons are currently priced just under $500. Receiving a brand new iron set for under $500 is significantly lower than average.

This makes this set a fantastic option for any golfers that are seriously looking to improve their golf game without breaking the bank.

Frequently Asked Questions About Tour Edge Exotics Irons

Are there multiple flex options for these irons?

Yes one grace aspect of these irons from tour edge is that they are offered in five different flex options. Those options are snior, regular, stiff, extra stiff, and A flex.

What are the staff material options for these irons?

With these irons you were able to choose between a steel or a graphite shaft.

Are these clubs good for a beginner golfer?

Yes, these clubs are perfect for a beginner golfer. As you could see through our features portion of our view the build of this club is highly tailor towards those that are looking for more consistency.

The word forgiveness which came up a lot throughout her review is exactly what is needed for beginner golfers. This is allows them to get a more consistent result when hitting the ball and therefore makes the game much more fun.

As long as the beginner golfer is not a junior as of average height then these two were edge irons are a great option.

Would these clubs be good as a gift?

In order to determine if these clubs will be a good gift you need to determine what level of golfer you were buying for. If this person has been golfing all their life and has high-quality clubs and they likely won’t want to replace their iron set with a game improvement irons like these.

But if you are looking for the first set of clubs for a golfer that is looking to dive into the game Then these tour edge EXS irons are a fantastic option.

Conclusion Tour Edge Exotics EXS Iron Set Review

We hope you enjoyed our Tour Edge Exotics iron set Review. If you have any questions regarding the review or the iron some selves please reach out in the comments below.

If you did enjoy this review please be sure to check out some of our others such as our Cleveland Launcher HB irons review or our Callaway Maverick Max Irons Review.

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Tour Edge Exotics EXS irons make distance push with hollow design, multiple materials and strong lofts

The Tour Edge Exotics EXS irons aren’t shy about how much of a priority distance was in their design intent. You need look no further than the 21.5-degree 5-iron to see that these are clubs with strong lofts and a clear mission to make you rethink how long you could be.

The strong lofted irons theme continues through the entire Exotics EXS set. The loft gaps are smaller in the long irons (2.5 degrees between the 4- and 5-rions, then spacing to three degrees and transitioning to five degrees between short irons for more ideal distance gaps in the short irons). For perspective, among leading manufacturers only Callaway’s top-selling Rogue X irons (21 degrees) and its niche moderate swing speed irons Epic Star (20.5 degrees) have a stronger lofts on its 5-iron, while TaylorMade’s M4 matches also checks in at 21.5 degrees.

The ultra-strong iron lofts started showing up only in the last few years. For example, TaylorMade’s M2 irons featured a 21.5-degree 5-iron back in 2016. But as little as three years ago, the strongest 5-iron lofts were generally at 24 degrees, while most conventional irons tended to have 5-iron lofts at 27 degrees. But Dave Glod, Tour Edge’s founder and master designer, didn’t hesitate, calling the lofts on the Exotics EXS irons “unapologetically strong.”

“This is the hottest iron we’ve made by far,” he said. “But even as thin as the face is, I think the key for us was getting the sound right.”

Like many past products in Tour Edge’s Exotics line’s 12-year run, including the recently released Exotics EXS metalwoods, the Exotics EXS irons incorporate elements of unique construction and multiple materials to get the combination of distance and feel Glod was seeking.

First, the head uses a hollow cavity construction in the lower half combined with a full forged cup face witha web-shaped variable thickness design. The idea is to not only boost maximum ball speed but limit the falloff as impacts move away from dead center. On top of that, it allows the head to be lighter

In the 4- through 7-irons, the head gets a 19-gram chunk of tungsten wedged into the mid-toe region of the cavity to provide stability, stretching the area of the face that produces the most distance.

Finally, to control any unwanted vibration of all these pieces, a thermoplastic elastomer fits into the top half of the back cavity to stabilize it. Glod said that by stabilizing the hollow portion of the cavity with the polymer, it’s able to create more spring in the area of the face where most iron impacts occur. It’s also coated with a gel formulated to further control vibration and enhance feel.

The Exotics EXS irons also feature a distinct ramped sole design, where a raised middle section accentuates heel and toe relief areas for better movement through the turf.

The Exotics EXS irons come standard with either lightweight steel (KBS Max 80) or graphite shafts (Mitsubishi Tensei CK Blue). Available at retail Nov. 1, the seven-piece set will retail for $800 in graphite and $700 in steel, and the irons available run from the 19-degree 4-iron to the 56-degree sand wedge.

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Best of Moscow by high speed train

By shuguley , February 15, 2014 in Regent Seven Seas Cruises

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Sure would appreciate someone who has taken "Best of Moscow by high speed train" from St. Petersburg could please share their impressions of this shore excursion. From the description this sounds like a very long day.

Wondering how the 4 hour train trip was in terms of accommodations, etc. Also what time did you leave the ship and what time at night did you return? Were both legs of the trip on the high speed rail (I read that slower trains also travel the same tracks)?

My wife and I are considering this excursion. We thought that if we are making all the effort to go to Russia then how could we pass up going to Moscow, walking in Red Square, seeing St. Basil, etc.

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If you are considering this on the 2015 June Baltic cruise on Voyager; my suggestion is don't. There is so much to do in St. Petersburg and although a train is one of my favorite ways to travel the time would be far better spent in St. P.

Thanks for the advice. Yes, this would be on the Voyager during the 2015 season but not yet sure exactly which cruise.

We did the Moscow excursion "on a different luxury line", but from your brief description it sounds very much like the same trip, so I will operate on that assumption. It is a VERY long day! We left the ship at 5:30 AM and returned at 12:30 AM. The highspeed train trip is comfortable, and while they call it "Business Class" it does not compare well to the equivalent class on say Rail Europe. When we did it in 2011, we did have highspeed both ways, and the trip back seemed much longer as the adrenaline and excitement had worn off!:D

Moscow itself is not that terribly different from any other big city in the world, but this Cold War kid never thought he would ever stand in Red Square, never mind walk the grounds of The Kremlin, or tour The Kremlin Palace, or see (but not visit) Lenin's Tomb, or visit The Armoury. But he did, and he loved every minute of it! Yes, it is a long day, and you barely scratch a scratch on the surface, but it is worth it. There is a tremendous amount to see in St. Petersburg, but every Baltic cruise goes to St. Petersburg, so you can go back if you choose to. Not every cruiseline offers you the chance to see Moscow.

I have not personally done this tour, but our last time in St Petersburg, the private guide that we hired for a day was leading the regent tour to Moscow on the high speed train the next day. He said it was way better than the previous alternative, which was flying to Moscow and back. He said that you actually got to Moscow faster because you didn't have to deal with airline checkin etc. it did seem like a very long day to me, and there is so much to see and do in st. Petersburg that I didn't consider doing it.

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We toured to Moscow from St. Petersburg via the hi-speed SAPSAN train last September, from a Baltic cruise on the Oceania Marina. You need to have a two-night, three day port call in St. Petersburg to take this tour because the tour typically leaves the ship around 5:00 - 5:30 AM and doesn't return until after midnight the next day. We didn't take the ship's tour; we made private arrangements with TravelAllRussia for three days of touring, the first and third days in St. Petersburg and the second day the tour to Moscow by train. Our cost for the private tour for three days was about the same as what the ship charged for the excursion to Moscow alone. There are a number of private tour agencies that operate in St. Petersburg and offer the Moscow train tours; we would strongly recommend them over the ship's tours.

All three days had private guides with car and driver. The second day, the driver picked us up at the ship and took us to the train, but we were alone on the train, and met in Moscow by the guide on the station platform. After our tour and dinner, we were brought back to the train and after the return train trip met by the driver and taken back to the ship. Because you are alone on the train you must have your own Russian visas.

If this is your first visit to St. Petersburg, I would agree there is much more to see there. We found Moscow somewhat a disappointment, particularly Red Square. The Kremlin and the cathedral in Red Square were also worth seeing. But the best thing we saw was the Moscow subway! I worked for the Washington Metro system back in the 1980s as it grew from 40 to 80 miles and although I was in the computer area, I learned a lot about the challenges of running a subway system. We used the Moscow system to get across the city from where we had dinner to the train station, and I was amazed at the cleanliness', speed of operation, the short headways maintained, and the courtesy of everyone involved. A very impressive experience!

We had been to St. Petersburg before, and so had the time to take a day and go to Moscow. Also, I really like trains, and the SAPSAN is a German train set running on Russian rails. Seats are like first class domestic air, spacious but not too plush or comfortable, but with enough room. Not too much recline, and almost 8 hours on the train in two shots is a lot for an old man. They come through and sell drinks, candy, etc. but the sellers don't speak English and no one around us helped, so we had just poor coffee once coming, and brought stuff with us for the trip back. Not too much to see from the train either, particularly on the return when it is night the whole way.

If you decide to go, take a private tour and avoid the overly expensive ship's tour. I'm glad we did it, but wouldn't bother to repeat the tour; we've seen Moscow.

Thanks so much to all of you for the thorough and thought insight. Yhe information you have provided is most helpful.

countflorida: Your detailed post is very helpful. We are not quite ready for a Baltic cruise but should do so within a year. Time enough to do our pre travel research, bookings and visa gathering.:) Thank you!

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Sure would appreciate someone who has taken "Best of Moscow by high speed train" from St. Petersburg could please share their impressions of this shore excursion. From the description this sounds like a very long day.   Wondering how the 4 hour train trip was in terms of accommodations, etc. Also what time did you leave the ship and what time at night did you return? Were both legs of the trip on the high speed rail (I read that slower trains also travel the same tracks)?   My wife and I are considering this excursion. We thought that if we are making all the effort to go to Russia then how could we pass up going to Moscow, walking in Red Square, seeing St. Basil, etc.

I did this on Seabourn. IMO DONT. Take Aeroflop (er Aeroflot). The train has non folding seats where you are literally knee to knee with your fellow passenger (facing each other). Further they don't believe in air conditioning. It's also the worlds slowed bullet train. I think I would have found more enjoyment wandering around the St. Petersburg and Moscow airports.

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This is a little off topic,, however we had planned a river cruise in Russia but decided we would rather stay on land and have booked about two weeks with Travel-All-Russia using the private guide and driver. I'm curious as to how you found them as a tour company.

The guides they provided were fine. We had a different guide each of the days in St. Petersburg, but both were flexible, pleasant, knowledgeable and spoke English very well, as did the guide in Moscow, incidentally. She was a bit aloof, distant, not too friendly, but otherwise fine. In fact, she was the one who suggested taking the Metro, which unexpectedly became one of the highlights of the Moscow excursion. If I have a complaint with AllTravelRussia, it is with their plan and its execution (more later).

I had requested emphasis on World War II (in Russia, the Great Patriotic War) sites and info. In scheduling us, they weren't careful about dates and a couple of the sites we wanted to see were scheduled on the third day, after we'd been to Moscow. But both sites were closed that day of the week, and that info was readily available, right on web sites describing them. Also, the included meals (lunches in St. Pete, dinner in Moscow) were not what we asked for: light meals with some choices, so we could avoid things we didn't like and choose things we did like. My request was ignored; we were given full Russian meals with a fixed menu, no choice. On the first day, a fish dish was the entre, but I am allergic to fish. Fortunately, I had the e-mail I'd sent with me and showed it to the guide, and she was able to change my entre to chicken, which was very good actually. But we didn't want a 3-4 course lunches or dinner (in Moscow). We had the guide drop the lunch the third day, although we never got any credit or refund. But, particularly in contrast to the ship's tours, the prices were so reasonable we didn't worry too much about it.

The people who were on the ship's tour to Moscow saw us boarding the same train for which they were forced to queue up and wait on the way back, and asked us what we had done. I was candid and open so they were not happy when I explained what we had arranged and particularly what it had cost. Also, when we returned to the ship, we found they had laid on a late supper for those who had gone to Moscow, so up we went and had something. Well, it turns out the late supper was supposed to be just for those on the ship's tour, but we and others on 'independent' tours, there were a dozen or more of us, crashed the party, actually got there first, and they didn't realize it until the larger group arrived and there weren't enough tables/places set. By that time, the 'independents' had all gotten served and were eating; what could they do?

A couple from the larger group sat down with us and asked us about our tour, and they were the ones I told about our arrangement and its cost. They turned to others who’d been with them and announced the details, loudly enough so the whole room heard, which started a lot of bitching and complaining. I gathered they weren't very happy with the ship's tour to begin with, and this was the straw that broke the camel's back. We finished up and beat it out of there, but overheard later that one of the excursion staff came to check on something and ran into a real mess. I caught a cold on the trip, which forced me to bed the second day following in Tallinn, so by the time we reappeared we heard about the contretemps' but apparently no one recalled who started it, thankfully.

Because of what happened to us, I would probably not use AllTravelRussia if I were to go again, or if I did, I would be sure to get confirmation of every detail of the tour. They do have good reviews generally, and we were certainly helped by their visa department and liked the guides and drivers. Their weakness, I say now with full 20:20 hindsight, is that once the sales person who plans the tour, sells it to you and collects your money, he (or she) transfers the plan to their Russia office for implementation; there is no follow-up to make sure it gets done right. And that is where our problems arose; we paid for a custom tour but got a standard package with a few destinations switched, and no one checked them out, even to see when they were open the day we were scheduled to go. If you check every detail that’s important to you, it should be OK, but that’s a hell of a way to have to do business, in my opinion.

Thank you for the 20/20 hindsight observation on your Russian tour operator, and better priced than the ship's excursion cost.

Thanks very much for the feedback.

We had the same experience as you so far as price. We originally booked a Viking Cruise but, hearing some things about the river cruises that made us unhappy, looked into other options. T-A-R cost the same or less than a cruise and had us in hotels for 11 days. We opted for the private tour. They have three tour levels, based on hotels. We originally opted for the four star as it did not cost much more than the three star hotels. Finally we decided to throw it all in and upgraded to five star. In Moscow we will be at the newly opened Kempinsky which is two blocks from Red Square. In St. Petersburg it is the Grand Hotel Europe, one of the most vaunted luxury hotels in Russia. Location is important for us as the tours use up only part of the day so being in the center of everything for our independent touring is important. As with many other cities, the less you pay, the farther out of the center of town you are.

We have been working with our salesman in D.C. and he seems to get back to us with the changes we want. He recently returned from Russia so is up on everything. When I asked they said they paid the full TA commission if I wanted so I got my usual TA on board so he is watching our back and giving us that extra level of comfort. He also set up our air, which I know pays him little or nothing, and got us business class for much less than T-A-R wanted for economy, though it took working for a while with a consolidator. He's happy to get his 10 percent on this trip without having booked it. He also took care of the trip insurance. We've been doing a lot of research on the CC sister site Trip Advisor and will write a report there. We will, I guess, become a source of info for CC members after having spent 5 days in Moscow and 6 in SP.

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Anybody considering a day trip to Moscow from St. Petersburg on the Sapsan may want to look at our travelogue filled with pictures.

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Very informative. Thanks dor sharing. Jeff

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Tour of Fedoskino village of crafts

Learn about Russian national crafts of Moscow region. Take a tour to Fedoskino village, famous for lacquer miniature painting. During the tour you will visit the factory where Fedoskino lacquer boxes are made, explore the village where local artists live, visit the museum of Russian national crafts and paint your own lacquer box or a lacquer pin  in Fedoskino style.

Enjoy Russian  tea with traditional Russian pies ( pirogi) and after lunch break  you are welcome to visit  Nadezhda Strelkina’s art studio “Fairy world”. Nadezhda Strelkina is a painter of Fedoskino lacquer miniature, working in this sphere for more than 20 years. She is a well know fantasy artist in the world and her art works are licensed on different products in many countries. The creation of the highly acclaimed “Symphony of Angels” porcelain plate collection for the Bradford Exchange has won her the prestigious award “Collector’s Choice New Artist of the Year 1997”

Fedoskino village is located 35 km to the north from Moscow The tour lasts 6-7 hours Tour price depends on the number of people in a group. Tour includes: car with a driver, English speaking guide, entrance fees, painting class, Russian tea ceremony.

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