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Choose the Qi if you want a slightly stronger 5- to 8-iron or need a ladies flex.
G430 $949 · Qi $899.99, each with its shop and checked date
Both are game improvement irons a year apart, the G430 the older, and the G430 scores a little higher here, 3.5 of 5 against 3. PING prints 4.6 mm of offset at the G430's 7-iron, which gives the face more time to square up; TaylorMade prints none for the Qi, but says it built the Qi's face against the right miss that most game improvement irons favour. The Qi's lofts are a degree or so stronger from the 5- to the 8-iron (a 28° 7-iron against 29°); both have a 37° 9-iron, and then the G430's PW is the stronger, 41° against 43°, a wedge PING added to fill the gap its stronger lofts left. PING now builds the G430 only as fill-in or replacement clubs, and its G440 replaced it. Both come in senior flex; the G430 also in extra stiff, the Qi in a ladies flex.
PING's game improvement iron before the G440, with the same 4.6 mm of offset and the same 29° 7-iron; PING added a 41° pitching wedge to fill the gap its stronger lofts left.
$949 at 2nd Swing Golf7 irons (5-PW, GW) · checked 11 Oct
TaylorMade's game improvement iron before the Qi Max, with the same 28° 7-iron. TaylorMade says it built the face against the right miss that most game improvement irons favour, and its own chart rates its forgiveness High, as it rates the Qi Max's.
PING's game improvement iron before the G440, with the same 4.6 mm of offset and the same 29° 7-iron; PING added a 41° pitching wedge to fill the gap its stronger lofts left.
TaylorMade's game improvement iron before the Qi Max, with the same 28° 7-iron. TaylorMade says it built the face against the right miss that most game improvement irons favour, and its own chart rates its forgiveness High, as it rates the Qi Max's.
The G440 replaced the G430, and the two share the figures our score reads: the same 4.6 mm of offset at the 7-iron, the same 29° 7-iron and the same lofts from the 4-iron to the 9-iron, so both score 3.5 of 5.
TaylorMade's own chart answers it: the Qi is a game improvement iron rated High for forgiveness, the P790 a players distance iron rated Mid-High, so the Qi forgives more, and it scores 3 of 5 here against the P790's 2.
Two earlier PING irons a step apart: the G430 is PING's game improvement head, the G730 its super game improvement head, and the G730 forgives more, 5 of 5 here against 3.5.
Two game improvement irons of the same year that their makers rate High for forgiveness, a step below the Qi HL and the Ai Smoke HL, and both score 3 of 5 here.
