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Choose the Hot Metal if a slice is part of your miss.
Choose the Qi if you need a softer flex, or your irons miss to the right.
Qi $899.99 · JPX925 Hot Metal $962.50, each with its shop and checked date
Two game improvement irons with the same 28° 7-iron, and the JPX925 Hot Metal scores a little higher here, 3.5 of 5 against 3. Mizuno prints what TaylorMade does not: 4.8 mm of offset at the 7-iron and the width of every sole, with tungsten low in the 4- to 7-irons for a higher launch. TaylorMade prints no offset for the Qi, but says it built the face against the right miss that most game improvement irons favour. The Qi is half a degree to a degree stronger in the 4-, 5- and 6-irons and its PW a degree weaker (43° against 42°); both have a 37° 9-iron, a 48° wedge after the PW and a 54° sand wedge. The Qi comes in senior and ladies flex as well as regular and stiff; the Hot Metal in regular or stiff.
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.
Mizuno's game improvement iron, with 4.8 mm of offset at the 7-iron, tungsten low in the 4- to 7-irons for a higher launch and a sole of varying thickness that lets more of the face flex.
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.
Mizuno's game improvement iron, with 4.8 mm of offset at the 7-iron, tungsten low in the 4- to 7-irons for a higher launch and a sole of varying thickness that lets more of the face flex.
The Hot Metal is the more forgiving of the two: more offset (4.8 mm at the 7-iron against 3.2 mm), a wider sole and stronger lofts (a 28° 7-iron against 30°), with tungsten low in the long irons to help them launch.
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.
Mizuno's two speed cavities share every loft (a 28° 7-iron), every lie and every length from the 4-iron to the GW, with the same cup face and tungsten low in the 4- to 7-irons.
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.
