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Tour Edge unveils new Hot Launch X525 and E525 family of clubs

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Tour Edge has today announced its Hot Launch X525 and E525 series of drivers, fairway woods, hybrids, irons and wedges.

Available at retail starting March 1, the Hot Launch 525 Series introduces the X-range for the first time in the brand’s best-selling Hot Launch family.

The Hot Launch 525 Series consists of two distinct ranges: the X-range and the E-range, each designed to meet specific player needs through advanced driver, fairway, hybrid, iron, and wedge designs.

  • X-range: Super-Game-Improvement clubs with anti-slice offset designs and extremely low CG positions, featuring ultra-shallow faces that promote easy launch and consistent playability.
  • E-range: Premium Game-Improvement clubs inspired by Exotics technology, offering class-leading MOI and enhanced forgiveness, power, and accuracy.

“This marks a new era for Hot Launch, with our best-feeling and best-looking performance-enhancement clubs we’ve ever produced. The X-range offers golfers a new ‘X-factor’ to boost their game with cutting-edge SGI innovations, while the E-range is the highest-level of GI with a perfect balance of distance and forgiveness in more traditional shapes.” – David Glod, Founder and CEO of Tour Edge

Hot Launch X525 Driver  

Key Features:

  • Anti-slice offset design: The offset design of the X525 Driver allows the face to square up at impact for a straighter ball flight. The strategically placed heel draw-bias weighting of the X Series is engineered to help golfers avoid the right side of the course and to increase launch.
  • Heel-weighted anti-slice design: The X525’s heel sole weighting system includes a 10-gram back weight, and a sole rail concentrated entirely on the heel side of the clubhead to provide the ultimate in anti-slice technology. 
  • High MOI stability: Weighting is strategically placed at the extreme trailing edge of the clubhead. This back weighting creates an extremely high MOI rating that surpasses 5,000 g-cm2 for top in-line stability.
  • Ridgeback Technology: This popular Exotics technology is now featured in every 525 metal. Ridgeback technology uses a rail on the crown to boost structural integrity and produce more power across the entire face. This rail also serves as a unique alignment aid.
  • Diamond Face VFT: Diamond Face VFT technology features 37 distinct thick and thin diamond-shaped “mini-trampolines” behind the face, enhancing ball speed, off-center hit performance, and reducing spin for straighter shots. 
  • Ultra-light premium shaft: The UST Mamiya Helium shaft with Nanocore Technology enhances speed and feel, providing a consistent and precise performance.

Hot Launch X525 Fairway Metal 

Key Features:

  • Anti-slice offset design: X525’s offset design provides the ultimate in slice fighting technology, allowing the face to square up at impact for a straighter ball flight. 
  • Houdini sole technology: Patented Houdini Sole technology strategically places mass at the trailing edge of the sole, with a curved leading edge under the face, ensuring a low CG for enhanced stability and forgiveness.
  • Ultra shallow face design: The ultra-shallow face is designed for maximum playability and high-flying launch characteristics, producing higher launch angles and optimal launch with extreme forgiveness.
  • Ridgeback technology: This popular Exotics technology is now featured in every 525 metal. Ridgeback technology uses a rail on the crown to boost structural integrity and produce more power across the entire face. This rail also serves as a unique alignment aid.
  • Diamond Face VFT: Diamond Face VFT technology features 35 distinct thick and thin diamond-shaped “mini-trampolines” behind the face, enhancing ball speed, off-center hit performance, and reducing spin for straighter shots. 
  • Ultra-light premium shaft: The UST Mamiya Helium shaft with Nanocore Technology enhances speed and feel, providing consistent and precise performance.

Hot Launch X525 Hybrid 

Key Features:

  • Anti-slice offset design: X525’s offset design provides the ultimate in slice fighting technology, allowing the face to square up at impact for a straighter ball flight. 
  • Houdini sole technology: Patented Houdini Sole technology strategically places mass at the trailing edge of the sole, with a curved leading edge under the face, ensuring a low CG for enhanced stability and forgiveness.
  • Ultra shallow face design: The ultra-shallow face is designed for maximum playability and high-flying launch characteristics, producing higher launch angles and optimal launch with extreme forgiveness.
  • Ridgeback technology: This popular Exotics technology is now featured in every 525 metal. Ridgeback technology uses a rail on the crown to boost structural integrity and produce more power across the entire face. This rail also serves as a unique alignment aid.
  • Diamond Face VFT: Diamond Face VFT technology features 35 distinct thick and thin diamond-shaped “mini-trampolines” behind the face, enhancing ball speed, off-center hit performance, and reducing spin for straighter shots. 
  • Ultra-light premium shaft: The UST Mamiya Helium shaft with Nanocore Technology enhances speed and feel, providing consistent and precise performance.

Hot Launch X525 Iron

Key features:

  • Hollow-body perimeter weighting: Hollow-body perimeter weighting produces the distance properties of a metalwood in an ironlike design. Hollow-body perimeter weighting produces maximum ball speed off an iron coupled with an extremely low and back CG, which creates a very forgiving and powerful face.
  • Anti-slice offset design: X525’s offset design provides the ultimate in slice fighting technology, allowing the face to square up at impact for a straighter ball flight. 
  • Houdini sole technology: The patented Houdini Sole technology is an area of mass strategically placed on the trailing edge of the sole of the clubhead, as well as a curved leading edge under the face. Tour Edge engineers have precisely positioned extra weight in the clubhead to create an ultra-low lower Center of Gravity that greatly improves stability.
  • Ultra-shalow face design: The ultra-shallow face is designed for maximum playability and high-flying launch characteristics, producing higher launch angles and optimal launch with extreme forgiveness.
  • Ultra-light premium shaft: The UST Mamiya Helium shaft with Nanocore Technology enhances speed and feel, providing consistent and precise performance. The True Temper Elevate MPH 95 steel shaft is also available in the 525 irons and wedges for maximum launch and carry distance.

Hot Launch X525 Wedge

Key Features:

  • Patented Houdini sole: The Houdini Sole reduces turf drag by 35%, optimizing contact and making the wedge highly playable in various conditions.
  • Wide sole design with added camber: A wide sole design with added camber ensures smooth turf interaction, eliminating flubs while preventing digging.
  • Deep undercut cavity: This deep undercut lowers the CG and redistributes mass for improved spin, flight control, and forgiveness.
  • Extra large face & rounded leading edge: The oversized face provides more striking area, enhancing consistency and increasing forgiveness.
  • Full-face maximized grooves: CNC-milled grooves on the entire face provide exceptional spin, even on off-center hits.
  • Ultra-light premium shaft: The UST Mamiya Helium shaft with Nanocore Technology enhances speed and feel, providing a consistent and precise performance. The True Temper Elevate MPH 95 steel shaft is also available in the 525 irons and wedges for maximum launch and carry distance.

Hot Launch E525 Driver

Key Features:

  • MOI boosting rear sole weight: Weight is strategically placed to the extreme rear of the clubhead with more mass concentrated at the extreme trailing edge of the clubhead. The back weight creates an extremely high MOI rating for top in-line stability. 
  • Ridgeback technology: This popular Exotics technology is now featured in every 525 metal. Ridgeback technology uses a rail on the crown to boost structural integrity and produce more power across the entire face. This rail also serves as a unique alignment aid.
  • Diamond face VFT: Diamond Face VFT technology features 37 distinct thick and thin diamond-shaped “mini-trampolines” behind the face, enhancing ball speed, off-center hit performance, and reducing spin for straighter shots. 
  • 360° cup face design: The premium 6-4 Titanium head features a deep 360° Cup Face design. Cup Face technology increases the amount of face flexing on off-center hits to achieve higher ball speeds and creates a more solid feel.
  • Center-sole rail design: A rail extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge produces a low CG for high-launch shots and optimized spin rates.
  • Ultra-light premium shaft: The UST Mamiya Helium shaft with Nanocore Technology enhances speed and feel, providing consistent and precise performance.

Hot Launch E525 Fairway Metal

Key features:

  • MOI boosting rear sole weight: Weight is strategically placed to the extreme rear of the clubhead with more mass concentrated at the extreme trailing edge of the clubhead. The back weight creates an extremely high MOI rating for top in-line stability. 
  • Ridgeback technology: This popular Exotics technology is now featured in every 525 metal. Ridgeback technology uses a rail on the crown to boost structural integrity and produce more power across the entire face. This rail also serves as a unique alignment aid.
  • Diamond fave VFT: Diamond Face VFT technology features 35 distinct thick and thin diamond-shaped “mini-trampolines” behind the face, enhancing ball speed, off-center hit performance, and reducing spin for straighter shots. 
  • Center-sole rail design: A rail extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge produces a low CG for high-launch shots and optimized spin rates.
  • Ultra-light premium shaft: The UST Mamiya Helium shaft with Nanocore Technology enhances speed and feel, providing consistent and precise performance.

Hot Launch E525 Hybrid

Key features:

  • MOI boosting rear sole weight: Weight is strategically placed to the extreme rear of the clubhead with more mass concentrated at the extreme trailing edge of the clubhead. The back weight creates an extremely high MOI rating for top in-line stability. 
  • Ridgeback technology: This popular Exotics technology is now featured in every 525 metal. Ridgeback technology uses a rail on the crown to boost structural integrity and produce more power across the entire face. This rail also serves as a unique alignment aid.
  • Diamond face VFT: Diamond Face VFT technology features 35 distinct thick and thin diamond-shaped “mini-trampolines” behind the face, enhancing ball speed, off-center hit performance, and reducing spin for straighter shots. 
  • Center-sole rail design: A rail extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge produces a low CG for high-launch shots and optimized spin rates.
  • Ultra-light premium shaft: The UST Mamiya Helium shaft with Nanocore Technology enhances speed and feel, providing consistent and precise performance.

Hot Launch E525 Iron

Key Features:

  • VIBRCOR technology: The proprietary VIBRCOR high-grade TPU is strategically placed in the deep undercut pocket to create a speed-inducing and feel-enhancing internal technology that creates a distinct feel of the clubhead at impact that dampens sound and shock at impact.
  • Wide sole/deep undercut design: The wide sole of the E525 offers superior bounce and increased launch for cleaner, high-flying shots. The wide sole design deflects turf interaction for more consistent shot making. The 360° undercut cavity creates more face flexing and faster ball speed across the entire face.
  • Advanced toe weighting: Advanced toe weighting is strategically increased and made more visible in the new E525 Iron design. The added toe weighting maximizes stability on impact and provides better distance on off-center hits. This design elongates the sweet spot and creates a pure feel off the face of the irons.
  • Power lofted: The lower and deeper CG allows the E525 Irons to be power-lofted to create an extreme distance iron. Power-lofting in this forgiving iron design promotes both maximized distance and optimized height without sacrificing the peak apex trajectory.
  • Ultra-light premium shaft: The UST Mamiya Helium shaft with Nanocore Technology enhances speed and feel, providing consistent and precise performance. The True Temper Elevate MPH 95 steel shaft is also available in the 525 irons and wedges for maximum launch and carry distance.

Hot Launch E525 Wedge

Key features:

  • VIBRCOR technology: The proprietary VIBRCOR high-grade TPU is strategically placed in the deep undercut pocket to create a speed-inducing and feel-enhancing internal technology that creates a distinct feel of the clubhead at impact that dampens sound and shock at impact.
  • Maximum allowed CNC milled grooves: The E525 Wedge features computer-milled CNC grooves that are carved to the maximum depths allowed by the USGA. This provides perfect control and spin around the greens for every level of golfer from pro to beginner.
  • High-toe pad design: Extra weight is strategically placed in the toe portion of the face. The added weight in the upper toe of the face expands the sweet spot vertically so shots struck higher on the face maintain exceptional control and feel.
  • Beveled leading edge & rounded camber sole: The beveled leading edge creates an exceptionally versatile design for every type of wedge shot resulting in reduced digging through impact. Golfers who swing more steeply will benefit from the rounded camber in the sole of the E525 wedge.
  • Ultra-light premium shaft: The UST Mamiya Helium shaft with Nanocore Technology enhances speed and feel, providing consistent and precise performance. The True Temper Elevate MPH 95 steel shaft is also available in the 525 irons and wedges for maximum launch and carry distance.

Prices:

  • Drivers: $249.99 (X and E)
  • Fairway Metals: $169.99 (X and E)
  • Hybrids: $149.99 (X and E)
  • Irons: $89.99 (X525), $79.99 (E525)
  • Wedges: $89.99 (X525), $79.99 (E525)

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Neal Shipley, AKA, the “Big Fridge’s,” custom stamping

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Neal Shipley was the first to admit that he enjoyed his food while in college. But since his days at Ohio State, he’s slimmed down and earned a PGA Tour Card.

That hasn’t stopped him from having fun with his wedge stampings, though it’s led to some misunderstandings.

On the 54 (degree), we have ‘Big Fudge,'” Shipley told GolfWRX. “It was supposed to be ‘Big Fridge,’ so this happened a little while ago. ‘Big Fridge’ was a nickname between my college teammates and I, with ‘fridge’ meaning stomach, a big stomach.

“We told the Ping guys to put … ‘Big Fridge’ on it, and I think maybe some bad cell service or something, and they thought I said ‘fudge,’ so they put fudge on it.”

On Shipley’s 50-degree he also continues the food theme, this time with his go-to order at the “Golden Arches,” and his stamping “DONS 7.”

“The number 7 meal, the two cheeseburger meal, that was my McDonald’s order, back when I would have McDonald’s frequently,” Shipley shared.

Check out Shipley’s full what’s in the bag and the rest of his wedge stampings here on “Inside the Ropes” from Colonial.

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From the GolfWRX Classifieds: L.A.B. Purple DF3 with Masters cover

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At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals who all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.

It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.

Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, @raw10628 has a L.A.B. DF3 putter and Masters putter cover up for grabs.

From the listing: “Some great items here today, time to thin out and make room for next set of gear.  All prices include shipping. 
LAB DF3 Purple 33.5” 68° lie with TPT – $725. LAB Masters release DF3 cover – $150.

To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link. If you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum, you can learn more here: GolfWRX BST Rules

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Maria Torres WITB 2026 (June)

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Driver: Ping G440 LST (9 degrees)
Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 5-M4

3-wood: Ping G440 Max (15 degrees)
Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 6-M4

5-wood: Ping G440 Max (19 degrees @18)
Shaft: Accra TourZ Green 6-M4

Hybrid: Ping G440 (23 degrees)
Shaft: Oban Isawa Red Hybrid Shaft 04 Flex 70 Gms

Irons: Srixon ZXi7 (5-P)
Shafts: Aerotech SteelFiber Private Reserve i80

Wedges: Cleveland RTZ (50-MID, 54-FULL, 58-MID)
Shafts: Aerotech SteelFiber Private Reserve i105

Putter: L.A.B. Golf OZ.1i
Shaft: ACCRA Putter Shaft

Grips: Golf Pride Tour Velvet

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