TaylorMade Qi35 Review

Qi35 is what happens when a company stops chasing a single headline number. The Qi10 Max sold itself on ten thousand of moment of inertia and looked like a shoebox to get there. Qi35 keeps most of that stability in a head a good player can actually look down at, with a rounder, more compact footprint and a slightly deeper face. The Infinity Carbon Crown covers essentially the whole top, and the 60X Carbon Twist Face keeps the loft and lie correction on toe-high and heel-low strikes that TaylorMade has been refining since 2017.

Spin is a touch lower than Qi10 through the middle of the face, and ball speed retention on the low heel, always the ugliest miss in golf, is measurably better. It sounds firm and low rather than metallic. The sleeve gives two degrees either way, lofts run 9, 10.5 and 12, and at $649 it is expensive, but this is the driver the whole project was aiming at.