 There is one major flaw with the new TaylorMade QI-10 lineup. There is in fact only one club in the whole range that lives up to its title. QI quest for inertia 10th the 10k MOI target is only achieved by the QI-10 max driver. Pushing that factor one side the new QI-10 max fairway boasts an ultra high MOI construction in a confidence inspiring 200cc head. Now I don't know what ultra high MOI actually means but I do know a 200cc fairway wood has me intrigued. Is this a fairway wood for the masses? And could this be a better alternative than a driver for many of us? Will the internal mass pads that are positioned for maximum forgiveness with weight move to the extreme low back make this TaylorMade easiest to hit fairway wood ever? Will the all new infinity crown provide a clean uninterrupted view and address and optimized performance? And perhaps the enlarged face profile would inspire confidence and generate ball speed? Or should I just stop reading from TaylorMade's website and give this thing a whack? Yeah I'll do exactly that. A few whacks on the course, a few on the sim and I will tell you why the QI-10 max is very interesting golf club even though it should be called QI max fairway wood. So in my head this is what I want from a fairway wood. I want to play it off the tee I want it to be long so ball speed, good launch and confidence at address. If I'm choosing to play three wood instead of a driver from the tee then what am I losing in distance? Off the fairway I want high launch I want to land soft then I want to know my numbers i.e where does it fit in my bag. Now one thing you lot can't complain about well no doubt some of you will TaylorMade offer every goal for an option in the fairway wood lineup. As well as the QI-10 max there is of course the fast low spin QI-10 tour or the standard QI-10 with options from three through to nine wood. There really is a fairway wood for everyone or not everyone you know you are. Now in the looks department I've got to say I think TaylorMade have nailed it with a QI-10 lineup this year the stand out is the tour model in the fairway woods. I mean this is just so easy on the eye and I love the sliding weight concept. So I've just finished collecting what is some really interesting data and none more so than the shot that I've finished off there which is pretty much perfect in terms of three wood capabilities in my hands with my can of clubhead speed. It's hit every parameter on the button the question is what product achieved that kind of data. I'm going to start off by hitting the max product what I'm expecting to see is a high launching ball there may be a have a little bit too high of a spin on it then I'm going to move into the tour product now the tour product I'm going to be expecting the kind of opposite really a lower launching ball perhaps a lower spinning ball but I don't want to become too low in either those areas either. So two very different models what I want to see first of all from the data is do they live up to expectation. So first of all the tour model is set up in a neutral position in terms of the sliding weight option so we can push it further forward we can push it further back and it's set at 15 degrees whereas the max product is a well you've got no mess in there it's 16 degrees not a lot you can do about it the CG is way back so that data is it what you're expected for me probably a little bit surprising in the spin number on the tour model and a little bit of positivity to be honest with you in the fact that it was a lot more playable than I expected one of the big issues that I noted in last year's model the first time we've seen it in that stealth lineup was the tour model sliding weight gave a very much a harsher sound and feel to the face or at least that's what I detected. If you look down at address obviously they're very different head types I think that 200cc is you know it borders on sort of mini driver don't forget is 300cc so we're getting something in between that and a traditional sort of fairway wood and I think that is going to be confidence inspiring for many as is that 16 degrees but the other point to mention is with the tour model I can make adjustments and I've already said that you know the idea of not having adjustability in any product fairway wood type for this kind of budget I think it's a little bit poor I think you should be able to adjust that max product as you should just the standard as well but both of them are fixed hosel and the only adjustability is in the tour lineup now for me what I'm thinking is well hang on a minute I can add a little bit a loft probably increase spin I can also shift that weight backwards and create a higher launching ball as well so straight away now the tour model has got apart from it being a little bit more compact a little bit smaller maybe less confidence inspiring for many for me I'm thinking I've got a lot more flexibility with that product in hand and probably can get my numbers tweaked to a position that I want them to be and that's something that I can't necessarily do with the max product I'm just swayed towards that tour model and I am going to make a few tweaks and see what happens so that there is the 50 gram weight and it is substantial and you can certainly see why this would make a difference to any performance in a club when you consider we've got sort of maybe 25-28 grams in max driver heads at the very back then to shift around this kind of weight is very significant awesome start right we'll leave it there ain't gonna get any better than that is it that's to be fair no deviation in ball flight um let's see those numbers 208 carry 25 spin launching 10.5 17 yards in height this is where it's a bit difficult for me to sort of monitor indoor performance we're struggling right now in the UK in the fact that the weather is horrendous and I'm gonna like I said struggle to get them out in this review but it kind of look different than that and the ball flies even on the screen look different than that um I would probably still want to see that ball launching just a tad higher for me so I'll hit one more ball but then I'm going to make an adjustment I'm going to add a little bit of loft into this three wood to see if it can produce real sort of optimal ball fight that I would be looking for in that kind of window the last few shots that you see me hit are just like I mean it's 218s just dropped off a tad but I was me sort of full tilt we're getting over 90 mile an hour with a three wood shaft in hand so that's creeping up to where sort of my driver shaft swing is because it's only sort of 95 96 but you can really get someone out of this club and you can really play manipulate that club face a little bit as well so from the sort of high shots landing into greens to the shots towards the end were the ones that you'd want to land on fairways and kick on from a par four so the big deal for me with the tweaks that I made is just the versatility in this club that you're not going to see found in either of the other two models to be quite honest with you but then if you're leaning towards the max it's probably not what you're looking for so out of curiosity what I'm going to do is I'm going to switch right back to the other end and I'm going to go to this max product just see what it does now sort of all out swings what does it do distance wise and spin get in the hole right ignore that that was off the bottom grooves I think it's a very positive result but in terms of data it's a 200 yard carry and a larger 5.7 degrees we ain't learning a lot from that right let's try and get back to where we were with the swing down the right withdrawal I see the difference in the ball flight it's so high that was an odd ball flight in terms of the switching from right to left 211 carry that spin jumps up three and a half thousand revs 12.8 pika so it's just a totally different ball flight altogether I'm not saying that I mean I've hit plenty of shots with this it's very visible this thing does things very differently I must admit it's a club I enjoy hitting you can see visually again look at the launch I mean that's just coming down with that's a big ball yeah 227 carry two and a half thousand revs has been 13.5 launch pika at 29 138 ball speed off a three word with 92 mile an hour club at speed look there's plenty to sort of go through in that data I want to go out in the fairways and try these two but if I'm being honest with you Trackman's been really useful for identifying just what makes these two different probably exactly what we thought however there are a few surprises in there so what I'm looking at is a set of numbers that I think what we'll do is we'll just throw some examples up on screen because I've hit a lot of golf balls and don't get me wrong they're all not perfect by any means but what I'm trying to get is a fair judgment of a cross section like I said when I started this video there's numbers that you're seeing are in the case of the qi 10 max fairway wood it does what we thought it would do and by that I mean spins a little bit higher launches a little bit higher carry distance was over that 200 yard mark which is where I was expected to be with my club at speed so we did everything that I would hope it should do I've said for a while now that we're getting a little bit confused with what forgiveness is and when this has sort of you know a maximum ultra high moi I think what we've got to remember is what maybe you and I interpret as forgiveness I always think of it as forgiving our bad shots and to a degree that is but like I said in previous videos it's all about twisting and talking you know not necessarily forgiving our bad shots so if you look at a cross section right here that's what forgiveness looks like it does nothing in terms of helping you be straighter in my opinion not greatly I think forgiveness for me is how a ball reacts in off-center hits what does it do in terms of ball speed is that sweet spot getting bigger but ultimately my swing is what's making a ball go to extreme left or extreme right and that's an issue that I've got to sort out personally you then go into the qi 10 tour which first of all I didn't really I wouldn't say that that is less forgiving than the max again that's not something that I would recognize but what I do recognize is a very different performing golf club just as we expected it to be but I think this club has come on far greater than what let's be honest the max if replacing what the hd lineup was in the previous stealth 2 and this is a continuation of what we've seen that titanium would last year in this tour model the tour model for me is gone on leaps and bounds it feels a lot lot better to me that's the big deal I think the performances seems to be very consistent off the clubface I got numbers pretty much straight off the bat everywhere every shot I hit maybe the direction wasn't exactly where I'd want it to be every time but the performance was a very consistent indeed so super impressed with that so yeah the question is let me just close that for a minute the one thing I was looking at was the price tag we're looking at 379 pound here for a three wood that's the qi tour and it's just gone bonkers I can't deny the fact that that for a fairway wood is ridiculous that's like driving money just a couple of years ago the 309 for basically the standard qi 10 fairway or the max I'm going to admit for me personally if I'm at that level of expenditure I'm going in for the qi 10 tour I'd rather spend the 70 quid and get that adjustability because like I've already stated it allowed me to make tweaks and changes that I couldn't do in the max product and ultimately that's what led to the better ball flight the better spin number the better launch and the better overall carry distance that I was looking to dial in will I end up with a three wood in the bag this year I don't know I'll be honest with you I'm still not it's the it's the versatility bit it's simple as that but I do like that qi 10 tour I really do and I think for me the obvious thing was if I was playing on the links course in Scotland on a bit of a breezy day I'd put it in the bag I could I'd want to hit fairways with it low spinning bounded along those fairways superb use it all day long but am I going to use it enough times to justify 380 quid for a club that I think still collects a few cobwebs along the way but I've got to admit I'm tempted anyway that's me done let me know what you think of this it was a bit different it was a slightly deeper dive to a degree into the the numbers and the data some of you will appreciate that some of you will prefer to see stuff outside and maybe a mix of the two is still the way to go but that was nice to identify what clubs are doing whether they are what they say they are essentially right thanks for watching I'll I'll catch you all very soon and as I say let me know what you think