With the aim of creating the straightest irons, TaylorMade’s all-new Qi and Qi HL utilize minimalist aesthetics and advanced multi-material tech to provide a combination of distance, accuracy and solid feel in a game-improvement package.
Since game-improvement golfers tend to miss with a slice, the Qi irons are designed with significantly less right bias to be the straightest distance irons in golf and help golfers minimize the right miss.
The Qi irons debut TaylorMade’s new Integrated System Design – a suite of technologies aimed at optimizing each individual iron head. Organic face geometries, a lighter-than-steel cap-back design and speed pocket technology tune each head to ensure ideal gapping, high ball speeds and consistent launch angles throughout the entire set.
TaylorMade’s “flighted center of gravity” features a lower-profile backbar in the 4- and 5-irons to encourage easier launch and higher ball flight. The shorter irons showcase a backbar design with exaggerated heel-toe weighting for higher inertia, delivering enhanced forgiveness with the ability to control ball flight with scoring clubs.
"Qi irons represent a fusion of performance and design, delivering a combination of distance and accuracy with a solid feel unexpected of game-improvement irons,” said Matt Bovee, director of product creation, irons for TaylorMade. “We rely on a team of technologies to make this possible, with the ultimate goal of giving golfers straight distance that outperforms the competition.”
The new Qi HL (high and light) irons have lofts approximately 2 degrees weaker and club weights more than 20 grams lighter than the standard Qi iron, promoting fast clubhead speed, higher launch and greater carry distance at moderate swing speeds.
The Qi and Qi HL irons retail for $1,099.99 per seven-club set.
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