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The TaylorMade Qi35 is designed for golfers who are seeking the tour proven distance potential with a renewed focus on off-center forgiveness. TaylorMade has for many years, been considered one of the leaders in driver technology and innovation. 2025 is no different, as TaylorMade renews its focus on inertia, or forgiveness across the club face.
Qi35 – Features
- Speed Injection Technology: The face of the TaylorMade Qi35 is precisely tuned to the threshold of legal speed limits, which helps ensure maximum ball speed.
- Twist Face Technology: This feature corrects off-center hits and provides straighter shots by reducing side spin.
- Adjustable Weight System: Customize your driver to fit your swing style by adjusting the weights to promote a draw or fade bias. This has become standard over the years on almost all TaylorMade driver models. One downside to the current iteration of TaylorMade weights is that additional weights must be purchased separately. It is NOT a slider that allows you to easily adjust between a fade or a draw bias, for instance.
- Aerodynamic Design: The streamlined shape reduces drag, allowing for faster swing speeds.
- Golf Simulator ready face: The TaylorMade Qi35 has embedded reflective markers into their select fit drivers faces which allows launch monitors to easily read the club head data when fitting someone for their club. This only applies to launch monitors that can read club head data using reflective markers like the Uneekor launch monitors.
Qi35 – Performance
Improvement
The TaylorMade Qi35 Driver Series seeks to improve on the Qi10’s astounding 10,000 MOI (moment of inertia) oriented forgiveness. It does this in part by lengthening the club from front to back so that the adjustable weights can be further apart from one another. This feature has allowed TaylorMade more flexibility to prioritize between forgiveness, launch angle and spin. TaylorMade claims that the ability to move the standard 13-gram weight to the rear portion of actually reduces driver dispersion by 13% relative to its predecessor which is a significant claim. Additionally, TaylorMade focuses on metric called “CG Projection” which measures the balance point based on the height of the club face. When the ball is struck above the balance point it launches higher and with less spin.
Tour adoption
TaylorMade drivers aren’t as widely used as their competitors Ping or Titleist. Some might argue that this is because most of the top 100 golfers are signed into lucrative contracts with the aforementioned manufactures and others may say that Ping and Titleist have a superior product. Regardless, Taylor Made has attracted some of the world’s best players to use their drivers. Some notable names that use the Qi series drivers from TaylorMade include Rory McIlroy, Scotty Scheffler, Brooks Koepka, and Nelly Korda.
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We firmly believe the Qi35 ranks with any of the top models and brands, but feel free to do your own comparisons on what we thought were some of the best models from last year. Similarly, in our comparison of the Qi35 models below, it’ll help distinguish between what model works best for you. Whether you’re a scratch golfer, looking to break 80 or just a beginner, there’s a club for everyone.
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Taylor Made Qi35 Models
– Higher forgiveness (460 cc club head) |
– Least forgiving and draw biased (460 cc club head) |
– Most forgiving of any Qi35 model |
– For players with lower swing speeds |
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FAQ
Yes, with a renewed focus on off center forgiveness, the TaylorMade Qi35 driver is a great driver for beginners. The Qi35 Max and Qi35 MaxLite are created specifically for golfers seeking more forgiveness and club head speed.
Yes, the Qi35 has adjustable weights that can also be removed and replaced with different weights. This allows you to optimize forgiveness, launch angle and spin to suit your golf swing. However, none of the models have a sliding weight like some of the previous generations of TaylorMade drivers.
Similar to previous years, the standard shafts are the Mitsubishi Diamana t60 and the Fujikira Ventus (non velocore). However, if you’re being fitted for a new club, there should be a wide variety of custom shaft options available.
Firstly, I wouldn’t worry much about the complex engineering questions regarding ball physics. But, simply put, if a driver enables you to launch the ball higher with low spin you can generally hit your driver further. This is what TaylorMade has sought to enable the golfer to do without changing their swing or shaft.
The Qi35 is the 2025 model that TaylorMade has released. This comes directly after they released their Qi10 models in 2024.
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