Can The New $40 Tour Edge Ball Compete With The Pro V1?

Now Tour Ridge makes some very impressive golf clubs, but it's trying to take on the titans

of the golf ball market with this. It's the Exotics Golf Ball. It's a three-piece

urethane-covered golf ball that the brand says produces incredible numbers. It's time I put that

theory to the test to see if it's all hype or if the Titleist Pro V1 has something to worry about

okay so here it is this is the Torredge Exotics golf ball and this is the technology I'm not going

to go into it now in this video if you want to read more about that hit pause check it out but

I'm going to open the box and see exactly what we're dealing with with this golf ball I've got

one ready out of the box and this is it it has a pretty good looking feel to it I would say it's

a little tacky feel to the cover and i've got a tight list pro v1 to compare it with latest

iteration you'll see actually the tight list does have a slightly more brighter white sheen to it

versus the torred which is a little bit duller but it's not too dissimilar the uh torred just

got the new torres logo on it it's sort of undergone a little bit of a rebranding here which i quite like uh the exotics side stamp looks pretty good going to help you with alignment if

you use your line on the greens but what i have noticed with the exotics ball in particular it

It does have that visible seam that runs all the way around the equator of the golf ball

And I think Titleist did have a seam back in the day, but they've obviously gone to a seamless construction now

Obviously, every golf ball, when you're joining two halves of the cover together

there's going to be a joining point. But Titleist have managed to cover that or sort of made it a bit more seamless, so to speak

Whereas the Torredge, that is visible, but it's not going to affect performance

There was a time back in the day where if you line the seam up with the golf ball, you get a few more yards off the tee

that's not the case anymore with the symmetry test that the USGA run they're testing in a couple of

different orientations to make sure golf balls don't perform differently depending on how you

align the seam so you're not going to have any concerns there generally speaking looks like a

pretty good premium ball I think it's time we put it to the test I'm going to hit some wedge shots

here on the practice screen at Peter Vermilson see how it reacts on those shorter shots and then

we'll get some data. Right so I'm just going to chip a few away got a pretty standard chip shot

here tight line to a pin about 10 yards away but before i do i'm just going to do a little

wedge bounce test and i think that was the tall edge that's the tight list i think the tight list

feels a little bit more lively a little bit more click to it slightly louder sound versus the tall

edge which i think does feel and sound a little bit softer so that's interesting um let's hit a

chip shot here with the Tor Edge. See what sort of reaction we get when it lands and what sort of

flight we get. That popped up quite high. A little bit of grab but not loads. I've got my towel here

Let's just make sure the face is nice and dry and hit one with the tight list because

it'll be interesting to see how they compare on a pretty bog standard chip shot

right you can see how much lower that came out way more spin on that one i don't know if you

hopefully you picked that up loads more grab um on a on a shorter shot let's try the tour edge again

that was really interesting like chalk and cheese those two flights it already i hit that a bit hard again that me that releasing out quite a lot Let try the tight list revert back to that one see if we can hit a similar shot

maybe a little bit too hard. Again, much lower, way more check

So the differences between the two balls are becoming a little bit clear. One more with the

tour edge. Well to be fair that one came out pretty low and gripped up nicely maybe I spoke

too soon so I think inconclusive looks like the tight list might be giving me a slightly lower

flight which suggests a little bit more friction on the face and a little bit more spin on that

second bounce but then that tour edge that last ball definitely put the cat amongst the pigeons

was very similar to the tight list in terms of flight and spin so not mastered difference

I do think the Titleist has a little bit more action on the greens on this sort of standard

chip shot. Going to hit a few more shots, different lies around the greens, and then

we're going to head inside and capture that all-important launch monitor data. Right, so I've come indoors to the studio here at Peter Milton Golf Club. I've got the

Foresight Sports GC Quad Launch Monitor ready to go and I'm going to hit a 50 yard pitch shot

a 7 iron and a driver with the Torreg Exotics Golf Balls and I will do the same

with the latest iteration of the Titleist Pro V1 Golf Ball to see how the data compares

Let's get the test underway. Okay, so I've done all my testing here on the Short Game area at Peterborough Milton

Golf Club. I've hit chip shots, pitch shots, bunker shots, shots out of the rough, you name it

I've hit them all. And then I've gathered my data indoors in a controlled environment on the launch monitor

to see exactly how the Tor Edge Exotics ball performs and how it compares to the Titleist

Pro V1. And the data and the findings are really interesting. So starting with a 50-yard pitch shot

there's hardly any difference between these two golf balls. I'll flash up the data on the screen

You can see here the Titleist Pro Beyond was spinning around about 100 RPM more

but hardly anything in it. Very similar ball speed, similar launch angle

and obviously a very similar spin. So not really much in it. And I have to say

hitting some additional short game shots around the green here, I noticed the Torres ball was spinning

just as much with the Titleist, to be honest. does feel a little bit softer than the title this but in terms of control and spin it's very

comparable so and that theme continued with the 7 iron you can see here the numbers are almost

identical pretty much exactly the same ball speed exactly the same launch exactly the same spin just

under 6,000 on the 7 iron exactly the same peak height and exactly the same carry distance at 169

yards. Very competitive, but exactly the same. And now we move on to the driver. And here

there's, you could argue, where the biggest difference in between the two balls lie, but

it's not a big difference by any means. And I'll flash it up on the screen. You can see here the Titleist was around about a mile an hour quicker than the Torridge Exotics but not a great deal in it But the Torridge ball did actually launch about a degree higher and created a two higher peak height than the Tireless

So that is a considerable difference compared to all the other clubs that I've tested between the two golf balls

Spin was very similar, and the Pro V1 was a yard longer on average than the Torredge

So very, very competitive. And it's really interesting to see, looking at the numbers and the experience

that I had around the green here, not much in it between these two golf balls

but there's one test i really just want to do because when you're testing golf balls

indoors on a launch monitor it's using algorithms to calculate the ball flight and the distance and

the total distance so i want to put this to the test out on the golf course in a real world

environment hit some shots with both these golf balls really assess the effect of the dimple

dimple pattern and the overall design to see exactly actually on the golf course are there

any significant differences in distance between Tor Edge Exotics and the Titleist Pro V1. So let's

get on to the golf course and hit a few shots. Okay so the Tor Edge ball has passed every test

I have to say, with flying colours, but this is the last hurdle. It has to overcome a real-world

environment test with Driver. Now we're looking at things like stability of flight, the consistency

of the flight, but also to see if the differences we saw in the launch wanted to actually materialise

out on the golf course and then we're also going to see where these tee shots finish. So I've got

pink castle tees to make sure i'm teeing the ball up the same height every time i'm going to hit

three hopefully good drives with the torred exotics then three with the tightest pro v1

probably interspersed you know switching between two as we go through but just want to see what

actually transpires in a real world environment we've got a little bit of wind in two off the

left so it'll be a really tough test on this difficult hole here at people milson the fourth

hole let's see what we do this is the torred golf ball first

I hit that one pretty nicely. Just down the left in the rough, but it was a good hit

Obviously, we saw in the launch monitor that the Tor Edge did fly a little bit higher than

the tireless, but actually went lower than I was expecting. So let's hit another one with the Tor Edge

Oh, that's a nice shot. A little bit higher, a little bit down the right

Okay, let's hit one more with that, the Tor Edge, and then we'll hit some with the Titleist

so dealing between those two would be lovely. There we go. Right, we're in business

Three pretty good ones with the Tor Edge. Let's hit three with the Titleist Pro V1

Oh, that is nutted. I mean that was probably a better hit than what I did with Tor Edge but..

Oh, that's a bit left down where that first Tor Edge ball went

Okay, not the best hit. I mean looking at the flight, pretty similar in terms of height

You know, I'm watching it in the clouds. There's not much difference there. oh my goodness me that is absolutely nutted right let's go and see where those golf balls

finished very interesting i have to say curvature of the flight sort of stability of the flight trajectory peak height very similar so comparable in terms of the viewing experience of the tee let go and see where they finished right so we up on the fairway here six shots no gimmies these exactly where they finished i

not touched them i promise and here is uh one of the shots i hit with the tore edge golf ball

and you see if we walk along so the t's up there so this is the sort of rough hitting area that

is the straightest one I hit with the Tor edge and then the other Tor edge ball is over in the

rough so I hit two in the rough one with each ball actually the Tor edge went a little bit further than the tight list but they weren't very good hits either of those so just in the rough

there sort of similar distance to where these were and then obviously hit two good shots with

the tight list probably one this is the first one so it's only you know one or two yards further

than where the good shots with the Tor edge ball finished but if we go a little bit further up you'll

see here now this is where that last shot I hit with the Titleist ball finished it's a good well

should we pace it out let's pace it out so that's the best shot with the tour edge so we're talking

one two three four five six seven eight nine ten eleven twelve thirteen fourteen paces longer than

a decent hit with the Tour Edge. So I think in summary, I'm speculating here, but maybe the dimple

pattern, the aerodynamics just cut through the wind a little bit better with the Titleist and as a

result, as you can see, gave me a lot more distance than I got with the Tour Edge. The Tour Edge ball

was comparable on decent hits but on really well-struck drives, I think you might get a little

bit more out of the Titleist Pro V1 than the launch one I suggested earlier. Right, so hopefully this

This video has given you a really clear idea as to the performance of the Torage Exotics

balls and how it compares to arguably one of the very best in its category, the Titleist

Pro V1. As you can see from the data that we got, performance was very comparable. I

do think on the course you might experience a little bit more performance out of a ball

like the Titleist Pro V1. As I said, it just gave me a little bit more penetration through

the wind in this particular test. But the real kicker here with the Torage Exotics ball

£39.99 a dozen. That is considerably less expensive than the Pro-Evy one. So in terms of

value for money, I do actually think you're probably getting a little bit more from the

Torway Exotics. And this is a real game changer for me. At this price point, the performance you're

getting around the green, 7-iron, it was very similar. And off the tee, you're not sacrificing

a great deal. So I think Titleist maybe needs to be a little bit worried. We've seen a lot of other

brands Mizuno making really good balls, Snell making really good balls, Legato and now Tour

Edge there's a lot of competition at that slightly lower price point I think might get Titleist a

little bit worried obviously Titleist potentially edging it here in this test but there's not a lot

in it at all. Hopefully you enjoyed this video if you did like it click the like button subscribe

to the Golf Monthly YouTube channel and let me know down in the comments below I really want to

hear from you are you considering Tour Edge as a golf ball brand is this a ball you would play

based on the experience I've had in this video. I'd love to hear from you in the comments

But that's all from me here at Peter McMillton Golf Club. I'll see you next time