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Choose the Qi HL if your swing is moderate and your irons fly low.
Choose the Qi if you swing faster and want the stronger lofts.
TaylorMade launched both together, on the same Cap Back head. The Qi HL is the light, high-launch version: its lofts are weaker from the 5-iron to the pitching wedge (a 30° 7-iron against 28°), TaylorMade says it is up to 26 grams lighter, and its chart rates it Highest for forgiveness and trajectory against High. TaylorMade's US pages print no offset or sole width for either, so both score 3 of 5 here.
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 lighter, higher-launching Qi of 2024: lofts about two degrees weaker, with a 30° 7-iron, light shafts for moderate swing speeds, and TaylorMade's Highest forgiveness rating.
Listed new by TaylorMade in Oct 2026; not priced here
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 lighter, higher-launching Qi of 2024: lofts about two degrees weaker, with a 30° 7-iron, light shafts for moderate swing speeds, and TaylorMade's Highest forgiveness rating.
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 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.
