Tour Edge Exotics E725 and X725 Irons Review

While Tour Edge has built a reputation as maybe the best value brand in golf, stuffing them into the “bang for your buck” box can overshadow exactly how much investment the company makes in research and development. This American company, still producing their wares in Batavia, IL, employs some of golf’s brightest minds. The results from the efforts trickle all the way from the Tour level down into the bags of high handicappers. Tour Edge’s Exotics E725 and X725 illustrate this perfectly. These may be the most technologically advanced iron sets in the Tour Edge stable in 2025, if not ever. Both present different takes on the max-forgiveness and max-distance concepts that so many of us rely on to shoot our best scores. Today we’ll look at what both sets offer and who they might work for. 

Tour Edge Exotics E725 Irons

The Exotics E Series, “E” short for Extreme, has historically been Tour Edge’s most cutting edge design in terms of distance and forgiveness. The company aggressively pursues ways to produce maximum ball speed and forgiveness in an aesthetically pleasing package, which can be a true challenge. While a first glance at the E725 irons brings comparisons to the previous E723 design, a look under the hood and our testing shows some fun differences. 

Tour Edge Exotics E725 Irons

The Tour Edge Exotics E725 irons utilize a cavity back design with what the company calls a 360 Undercut Design. In some ways this build will bear resemblance to a hollow body iron, but it’s really not. Each iron is built from one piece of high-strength steel that is aggressively sculpted to create a deep cavity. The face can flex freely to produce high-level ball speed across the face, while at the same time weight can be positioned deep in the rear-sole area to encourage both stability and higher launch angles. 

Feel/Sound – Tour Edge Exotics E725

One potential drawback to thin and fast faces made of high strength steel is that they don’t always produce the most pleasing sound and feel at impact. This is an issue that club designers have invested a great deal of effort into improving over the years, Tour Edge included. In the Exotics E725 irons, the company is again utilizing their VIBRCOR technology. This high-grade TPU material sits inside the cavity, soaking up offensive vibrations to soften the sounds at impact.

In addition, they’ve added a new badge, constructed of TPU and Carbon Fiber, that covers the entirety of the rear cavity. Whatever the recipe is, Tour Edge has managed to tangibly improve the sound and feel of the E series with the E725 irons. While we won’t go so far as to say the E723’s were harsh, they produced a notably sharper impact sound compared to the new model. The improvement is impressive and appreciated. 

Diamond Face – Tour Edge Exotics E725

Considering the target E Series golfer is not hitting the center of the face with much consistency, ball speed retention and stability are vital attributes an iron like this must possess. It starts with a newly designed variable thickness face that Tour Edge is calling 3D Diamond Face.

the face of the Tour Edge Exotics E725 Irons

Diamond Face has been a stalwart technology for Tour Edge over the years, but the 725 series features a new take on it. Think of the backside of the Diamond Face as being textured with a plethora of flat diamond shapes that provide different levels of flex around the face. 3D Diamond Face literally brings the diamonds into the next dimension, with each diamond utilizing the full height and depth of each diamond to alter the thickness of each portion of the face. In total, the 103 mini-trampolines ensure the highest rate of ball speed retention we’ve seen from the Tour Edge E Series, with a very impressive bump in forgiveness at the extreme ends of the face. Another key benefit of 3D Diamond Face is that the design also helps remove valuable weight from the face that can be pushed rearward to increase forgiveness. 

Forgiveness isn’t all about ball speed retention though. The face needs to stay stable, regardless of where you strike the ball on it, and the sole needs to aid with low point issues. Tour Edge’s MOI+ Design seeks to provide that stability by moving weight 10% lower in the head than in previous versions. This effectively increases launch angle while keeping the face as stable as possible.

New Sole Design – Tour Edge Exotics E725

We were pleased to see a new sole design on the E725 irons. Tour Edge is calling it a Sole Rail with Heel/Toe relief. What we’re seeing here is essentially a contoured slug of steel positioned centrally on the sole, leaving less surface material on the heel and toe that can be grabbed by the turf. This also prevents twisting of the face at impact, but also mitigates speed loss on slightly heavy contact, which could be the difference between rolling up to the front of the green and a hole-ruining chunk. 

the sole of the Tour Edge Exotics E725 Irons

We found the E725 irons produced a medium-high launch angle with spin rates representative of a typical thin-faced game improvement iron. This resulted in above average distances, slightly flatter trajectories, and an uncanny ability for the ball to remain on the line it started on. 

The Details – Tour Edge Exotics E725 Irons

The 5-PW Tour Edge Exotics E725 irons retails for $689 with KBS Tour Lite Steel shafts and $799 with Project X Cypher 2.0 graphite. Custom orders are available, including many no-upcharge shafts, at touredge.com.


Tour Edge Exotics X725 Irons

Tour Edge is making an exciting addition to the Exotics iron line in 2025 in the form of the X725. While the company is no stranger to hybrid-irons, they’ve never really approached them quite this way in an Exotics release. The company actually refers to the design as “iron-wood” technology and it’s billed as producing the most forgiveness of any Tour Edge iron to date. Still, the X725 irons seem to retain just enough iron character to make them feel like a standard super-game-improvement set. At times, hybrid irons just don’t look like irons and aesthetics are important to every golfer at some level. 

There’s no shame in being bad at golf. It’s an extremely different game with an endless string of things to master. A design like the X725 may not be the most visually appealing, but it’s built to produce more of the shots that keep you coming back and fewer of the shots that ruin holes. The iron-wood technology incorporates heavy offset and draw-enhancing technology that should assist with sliced misses. In addition, the faces are shallower (shorter), and the soles are much, much wider, which makes it very easy to get the ball airborne and target bound. If you’re a player that struggles with height and direction, look here. Seriously, this might be your answer. 

The X725 Series features the same technological onslaught as the E725 irons, so you’ll have all the benefits of MOI+, 3D Diamond Face, VIBRCOR, and the lovely Sole Rail with Heel/Toe relief to lean on. Of course, each is uniquely applied to maximize their individual benefits. 

Performance – Tour Edge Exotics X725

We found the sound and feel of the X725 to be especially pleasing, which was quite surprising at first. A design like this can produce some unique sounds, but we found it to be very iron-like and much softer than anticipated. Dare we say it was pleasant? The truth is it was in many ways, and we likely have the generous application of VIBRCOR to thank for that.

Turf interaction was amazingly smooth and should work well for those players with a sweeping motion. Those that find themselves steeper and missing heavy often will appreciate the additional slide the sole offers even more.

Keen eyes may notice a slightly different loft structure in the X725 irons when compared to the E725 set. They are slightly weaker, which when combined with the aggressively low and rearward CG should make a huge difference in one’s ability to elevate the ball and hold greens.

In real-life scenarios, we were quite impressed with the trajectory we saw. It was certainly higher than the flight produced by the E725 irons and we found it much easier to turn the ball over, indicating the draw-enhancing technology was working. In short, they were a joy to hit and not that bad to look at either. The scoring irons did a great job at concealing some of the larger cavity area, though it was noticeable in the mid and longer irons. Still, a ball sitting in the center of the green looks pretty great. We suspect the tradeoff might well be worth it to many of our readers. 

The Details – Tour Edge Exotics X725

Tour Edge Exotics X725 irons are available in a stock 5-PW configuration that is priced at $689 for steel (KBS MAX MT 85) or $779 for graphite (Project X Cypher 2.0). Custom orders are available, including many no-upcharge shafts, at touredge.com.

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Editor and writer Ryan Hawk lives in northwestern Illinois with his fiance and son. He's been a writer for The Hackers Paradise for two years and has been involved with a number of THP events.