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Choose the P770 if you strike it well and want a smaller head and more control.
Choose the P790 if your strikes wander and you want a little more help and distance.
P770 $1,199.99 · P790 $1,199.99, each with its shop and checked date
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. The P770 has a thinner top line and a more compact head, and weaker lofts (a 33° 7-iron against the P790's 30°), so each club goes a little shorter; TaylorMade's chart rates the P790 longer and higher in flight, and the P770 more workable. Both are forged, sold left- or right-handed, and TaylorMade prints no offset for either, so our score reads their classes: 2 of 5 for the P790, 1 for the P770.
TaylorMade's compact forged iron: a thinner top line than the P790 and a 33° 7-iron. TaylorMade's own chart rates its forgiveness mid, a step below the P790, and no set we score forgives less.
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.
TaylorMade's compact forged iron: a thinner top line than the P790 and a 33° 7-iron. TaylorMade's own chart rates its forgiveness mid, a step below the P790, and no set we score forgives less.
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 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.
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.
The P770 is the more forgiving of the two: TaylorMade rates it mid for forgiveness against low-mid for the P7CB, and files it as a modern players iron where the P7CB is a players iron.
Two compact players irons with nearly the same lofts: a 33° 7-iron, a 45° PW and a 50° wedge in both, and the P770 half a degree stronger in the 4-, 5- and 6-irons.
