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The TaylorMade Qi35 Tour fairway wood offers more adjustability than TaylorMade has ever offered before. Workable, quick, and techy, it’s a players-style fairway wood with some tricks, including a slidable, flippable weight in the sole that drastically affects ball flight.
Introduction
Three years after the initial development of their sliding weight, the TaylorMade Qi35 Tour fairway wood is more forgiving, adjustable, and refined than ever. One of my favorite aspects of this model is its availability in various lofts. Along with the standard 3 and 5 wood heads available in 15 and 18 degrees of loft, the Qi35 Tour is also available in a 7 wood at 21 degrees. This is an excellent feature as many of the world’s best are starting to experiment with higher lofted woods, and many amateurs have undoubtedly been wanting to do the same thing.
Looks
Every year, when it comes to new woods, there are only two options: matte black and gloss black. That’s a bit of an oversimplification, but what is interesting is that TaylorMade wasn’t afraid to give the public something out of the box, not black or white, but grey, or in their terms, “matte chromium.” The gunmetal grey Infinity Carbon Crown and sleek “T” alignment dot give the impression that the TaylorMade Qi35 Tour fairway wood was made in 2035, not 2025.
The futuristic design isn’t limited to a crown. Looking at the club’s sole, the most dramatic feature is the presence of a slideable 40g weight that can also be flipped. If there was ever a golf club that gave the impression of being an Autobot (from Transformers), this would be it. Even the head cover that comes with the TaylorMade Qi35 Tour fairway wood features a futuristic design. The shiny silver fabric embossed with the TaylorMade and Qi35 logo feels inspired by sci-fi media like Star Trek.
The sleek, tour-inspired 170cc shape of the TaylorMade Qi35 Tour fairway wood will be familiar to those who’ve played recent iterations of TaylorMade’s Stealth or Qi10 woods. The most obvious difference is that silvery palette swap. The club also showcases a collection of TaylorMade’s greatest hits of fairway metal design, including the Thru-Slot Speed Pocket behind the face and Twist Face technology with a face that looks slightly open at address.
Feel & Sound
The club sounds punchy. Deep, thuddy, and powerful. That comes from the thin, light, strong titanium face, and it only feels stronger when the weight is adjusted forward towards that face. Pulling the weight back allows for a less intense feel and even more stability. TaylorMade has historically been known for their wood’s performance and feel, and the TaylorMade Qi35 Tour fairway wood is no exception to the substantial premium feel they’ve been known for.
Performance
The ball flight of the TaylorMade Qi35 Tour fairway wood is extremely adjustable. The adapter sleeve allows for tweaking the loft and face angle plus or minus two degrees. On top of that adjustability, the club’s most unique feature is a slideable and flippable 40g weight. It’s almost as though this single club can behave as 5 or more different woods, depending on what adjustments you decide to utilize.
That was certainly my experience in playing with the 3 wood, as I had a blast experimenting, mixing, and matching lofts and weight settings to create some dramatic variances in performance. In the normal setting was an all-around traditional 3 wood. Pushing the weight all the way forward and delofting the club completely, I created what amounted to a mini-driver. Pulling the weight to the back and cranking the loft as high as it goes allowed me to make what amounted to strong-lofted 5 wood.
More subtle alterations to the loft and weight allowed for a 3 wood that could go high and land softly or offer a penetrating ball flight that provided much more roll out than normal. And that is to say nothing about how the loft changes alter the face angle of the club at the address position. Obviously, with this club being available in 5 and 7 woods as well, that means that although there are technically only 3 woods, with all the alterations at your fingertips, it’s really as though there are 15 or more distinct clubs available.
After testing what the ideal setting was for me, I found the club to be fast and relatively forgiving. In fact, out of all the sliding head weight fairway woods TaylorMade has released in the last couple years, this was the most forgiving. That being said, the standard Qi35 FW [review HERE] is undoubtedly easier to hit, and that may be the difference in what club you’d choose to test or ultimately put in your bag.
Conclusion
The TaylorMade Qi35 Tour fairway wood is superbly adjustable, looks great, and performs exactly how you’d hope a great fairway wood would. While I do wish it was a smidge more forgiving, the players who would be seriously considering using this club will undoubtedly be the best ball strikers. For those who are looking to tailor-make their TaylorMade golf club precisely to them, this is the head that offers the most customization.
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2 Comments
Have Stealth2+ 3W and 5W and love them. Had my wallet out ready to pre-order this when I saw there was a 7W until I saw those dreaded words…RH Only
Kia ora Drew.
Another great review by you guys – thanks.
I have the Qi10 tour 5 wood model based on your review last time.
My question is, how does this model compare to the Qi10 tour 3 wood – feel, numbers and performance in your opinion.
Thanks.