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Choose the i540 if you want PING's long list of stock shafts and a matching 47° UW.
Choose the P790 if you want a boxed set of seven, from the 4-iron or with an AW.
i540 $1,499.75 · P790 $1,199.99, each with its shop and checked date
Neither is the forgiving iron of its maker: both are players' distance irons, the class between a game improvement iron and a players' iron, and both score 2 of 5 here. The i540 has a forged face with tungsten weighting, a narrow sole and 2.5 mm of offset at the 7-iron; the P790 has a forged face with SpeedFoam Air behind it and a thinner top line, and TaylorMade rates its forgiveness mid-high, below its Qi irons, without printing an offset. Their 7-irons are a degree apart, 29° against 30°, at the same 37-inch length. Both are sold left- or right-handed, the i540 in soft regular to extra stiff flex, the P790 in senior to extra stiff. If thin and toe strikes cost you the green, PING's G440 and TaylorMade's Qi Max irons give more help than either.
A players distance iron with a forged face, a narrow sole and 2.5 mm of offset at the 7-iron, built for speed. It gives less help on a mishit than PING's G-series heads.
$1,499.75 at Golf Discount7 irons (4-PW) · checked 2 Nov
TaylorMade's players distance iron: a forged face over SpeedFoam Air, a thinner top line and a 30° 7-iron. TaylorMade rates its forgiveness mid-high, below its game improvement irons.
A players distance iron with a forged face, a narrow sole and 2.5 mm of offset at the 7-iron, built for speed. It gives less help on a mishit than PING's G-series heads.
TaylorMade's players distance iron: a forged face over SpeedFoam Air, a thinner top line and a 30° 7-iron. TaylorMade rates its forgiveness mid-high, below its game improvement irons.
Both are players distance irons, the class between a game improvement iron and a players' iron, and both score 2 of 5 here because neither maker publishes an offset or a sole width.
Both are players distance irons, the class between a game improvement iron and a players' iron, and both score 2 of 5 here because neither maker publishes an offset or a sole width.
Neither is PING's forgiving iron, and the i540 forgives a little more: it is a players' distance iron, 2 of 5 here, where the i240 is a compact players' iron, 1 of 5, the lowest of any set we score.
The P790 is the more forgiving: TaylorMade's own chart rates it mid-high for forgiveness against mid for the P770, and files it as a players distance iron where the P770 is a modern players iron.
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.
