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Forgiving, Fast, and Stable: TaylorMade’s NEW Qi4D is SOLID // On-Course & In-Bay Review

admin — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 16:01:13 +0000

Mitch took the new Qi4D LS out of the bay and onto the course to see if the numbers actually translate—and the results didn’t disappoint.

From the first swings, the club speed just feels different. Fast, effortless, and explosive through impact. But what really stood out? The misses. Even when Mitch didn’t catch it perfectly, the ball stayed online—tight, controlled, and way more playable than you’d expect from a low-spin head.

In the bay, the data backed it up. This isn’t just a “perfect strike” driver. It’s built for real swings, real rounds, and real results.

If you’ve ever thought LS meant giving up forgiveness, this might change your mind.

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LPGA Tour’s The Chevron Champion Swings Big with Graphite Design Tour AD FI-6 Shaft Powered TaylorMade Qi4D Driver

admin — Sat, 23 May 2026 12:15:17 +0000

Carlsbad, CA – Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts, Inc. announced today that the winner of the LPGA Tour’s The Chevron Championship, held in Houston, TX, was playing a Graphite Design Tour AD FI-6 Stiff flex wood shaft in her TaylorMade Qi4D Driver. The champion claimed her third Major and 17th career win after posting a 4-day score of 65, 65, 70, 70 for a total of 18 under par, winning by 5 strokes.

On the DP World Tour, the winner of the Volvo China Open, held in Shanghai, China, was playing a Graphite Design Tour AD VF Utility Driving Iron in his Titleist T100 #3 Iron, claiming his 9^th DP World Tour title.

“Congratulations to The Chevron Championship winner for capturing her third Major and regaining the number 1 ranking. What a great exhibition of Accuracy and Distance and we are ecstatic she plays Graphite Design Tour AD FI”, stated Wayne Ageno, President, Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts, Inc.

The new 2026 Tour AD FI – Flight Intelligence – is the next evolution in golf shaft technology from Graphite Design. Designed and manufactured at Graphite Design’s Japan factory headquarters for players who demand precision, power, and consistency, the Tour AD FI features a futuristic look, complete with a sleek new TOUR AD logo, and is finished with a green-to-gloss black fade with silver accents.

Like the other high-performance Tour AD wood shafts, the Tour AD FI utilizes premium, aerospace-quality carbon-fiber materials and is available in 40g R2, R1, S flex and X flex, 50g R2, R1, S and X flex, 60g SR, S, X, and TX flex, 70g S, X, and TX flex, and 80g X flex.

The Tour AD FI shaft profile is Firm+ in the butt section and Firm+ in the center section and has a Stiff tip to promote Mid-launch angles and Low to Low/Mid-ball spin rates. It utilizes Graphite Design’s proprietary AD Shield technology and the new TORNADO TIP TECH, along with the modern Torayca M40X and T1100G material technologies, to reliably transmit the player’s input to the club head, allowing for consistent shot-making and enhanced performance on the course.

Whether shaping shots or maximizing distance, the new Tour AD FI adapts to your swing, delivering unparalleled stability and responsiveness. Elevate your game with a shaft that thinks as fast as you play – because intelligent performance starts with the new Tour AD Flight Intelligence golf shaft from Graphite Design.

About Pro’s Choice:

Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts is the exclusive distributor of Graphite Design golf shafts in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Europe, UAE, South Africa, South America, and Australia. Pro’s Choice Golf Shafts distributes all of the current Graphite Design shafts, including the new 2026 Graphite Design Tour AD FI wood shaft model, as well as the Anti-Gravity aG33-3, Tour AD GC, Tour AD VF, Tour AD CQ, Tour AD UB, Tour AD XC, Tour AD IZ, and Tour AD DI models of shafts. The company is located in Carlsbad, California, with a distribution warehouse located in Southern California.

About Graphite Design:

Located in Chichibu, Japan, Graphite Design has over 36 years of experience designing and manufacturing premium graphite-composite golf shafts. Numerous Graphite Design shafts can be seen in play by the best professional players on all tours worldwide. Validating the company’s “Tour AD” logo, all of Graphite Design’s Tour-proven shafts specifically promote “Accuracy and Distance”. On Tour, Graphite Design shafts recorded 44 Global tournament victories in 2025 and have helped numerous golf professionals earn well over 580 tour victories and multi-millions of dollars in prize money since inception.

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Scottie Scheffler switches to TaylorMade Qi4D driver at Bay Hill

admin — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 01:13:29 +0000

After two seasons with the Qi10, the world’s No. 1 player begins the Arnold Palmer Invitational with a new driver.

ORLANDO, Fla. — When the world’s No. 1 player finally decides a club deserves a place in the bag, it tends to mean something.

After two seasons of sticking with his trusted TaylorMade Qi10 driver, Scottie Scheffler started the 2026 Arnold Palmer Invitational at Bay Hill Club and Lodge on Thursday using TaylorMade’s new Qi4D driver, joining a growing list of the company’s marquee players who have already made the move.

“I feel like what we have seen is more consistent spin numbers. So that will help it be a little bit more accurate off the tee,” he told members of the media after an opening-round 2-under 70 on Thursday. “Directionally, I struggled a little bit with it at the start of the year, but I got to what I thought was a really good spot last week, and I liked what I saw today.”

Scheffler used the driver Wednesday during the pro-am, and it appears to be fitted with the same Fujikura Ventus Black shaft that was in his Qi10.

For TaylorMade, the list of players already in the Qi4D includes Rory McIlroy, Collin Morikawa and Tommy Fleetwood. Nelly Korda, Brooke Henderson and Charley Hull have also been playing Qi4D, but adding Scheffler to the group carries a different kind of weight because of how reluctant he has been to change.

Scheffler’s loyalty to the Qi10 has been notable over the past year. Even when TaylorMade released the Qi35 driver in 2025, Scheffler bypassed it and kept using the Qi10, a club that had already delivered wins and consistent performance for the 29-year-old Texan. While McIlroy quickly transitioned into the Qi4D earlier this season, Scheffler tested it at the Hero World Challenge and then went back to his Qi10.

His reasoning was simple.

“I can be a difficult person to get a club in the bag,” he explained after the second round of the WM Phoenix Open. “I’m a little bit adverse to change as it is, and I have a driver in my bag that’s won quite a lot of golf tournaments. I’ve had a lot of success with it.

“It’s just one of those things that is tough. I’m not going to put anything in the bag unless I feel it’s better. We are getting really close. There are some improvements I’ve for sure seen in the new driver. It just hasn’t gotten quite where it needs to be in order for me to put it in competition.”

Apparently, it has now crossed that threshold.

The timing of the move is significant. The Arnold Palmer Invitational is a PGA Tour signature event. Next week comes the Players Championship. The 2026 Masters, the season’s first major, is just 35 days away. This is typically not the time of year players experiment with equipment or create a quarterback controversy inside the world No. 1’s bag.

For TaylorMade, getting Scheffler into a Qi4D driver is significant because it creates alignment: the brand’s most prominent ambassadors are all teeing it up with the same driver. That does not always happen, especially when one of those players spent the better part of two seasons proving that he did not feel the need to change.

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TaylorMade Qi4D drivers focus on speed control, spin and fitting

admin — Sat, 14 Mar 2026 15:49:15 +0000

TaylorMade’s Qi4D drivers break speed into four dimensions, pairing carbon faces, adjustable weighting and stock shafts built to fit more swings.

Gear: TaylorMade Qi4D, Qi4D LS, Qi4D Max drivers

Price: $649 with Mitsubishi Reax shaft and Golf Pride Z Grip +2; $699.99 with reflective fitter markings

Specs: Titanium chassis with carbon face, crown and sole panels, moveable weights and adjustable hosel

Available: Jan. 29

Who it’s for: Golfers seeking more consistent ball speed and tighter spin windows.

What you should know: TaylorMade rebuilt its driver platform around four dimensions of performance: face behavior, aerodynamics, shaft response and center-of-gravity adjustability. The goal is to deliver a more predictable launch and spin for a wider variety of swings.

The Deep Dive: As they were developing the Qi4D driver line, TaylorMade’s designers and engineers broke the concept of speed into four dimensions, focusing on the face, the shape of the head, the shaft, and the adjustability features that help ensure a proper fit. If those elements could be dialed in, they believed they could produce a driver that would work for a wide range of golfers. That included staff players like Rory McIlroy, Nelly Korda, and Scottie Scheffler, as well as recreational golfers.

Now you know what the name Qi4D stands for: four dimensions of speed. While the standard Qi4D, the low-spin Qi4D LS and the forgiveness-minded Qi4D Max all share several core technologies, they are designed for very different types of players.

All three models feature large carbon fiber crowns and sole panels, along with adjustable hosels that allow golfers to increase or decrease loft by up to 2 degrees. Each model also features a carbon fiber face. This technology first appeared in TaylorMade’s Stealth drivers in 2022. But for Qi4D, TaylorMade refined the face by tightening manufacturing tolerances so the faces sit closer to the USGA and R&A limits on coefficient of restitution (COR) and characteristic time (CT). The more precisely TaylorMade can control the hitting area, the more consistently it can increase ball speed without risking non-conforming heads.

TaylorMade also revised the face curvature from top to bottom, known as roll. Typically, shots hit high on the face launch higher with less spin, and low-face strikes launch lower with excessive spin. By rounding the roll radius, Qi4D drivers add spin to high-face strikes and reduce spin on low-face strikes, normalizing spin across a larger portion of the hitting area for more consistency.

Although custom fitting is growing, most golfers still buy stock-shaft drivers, so offering stock shafts that could better match what most golfers need to produce high-quality strikes was another priority for TaylorMade.

After studying more than 11,000 swings from staff professionals and recreational players, the brand’s fitters identified correlations between a golfer’s release patterns and the shaft they ended up using.

TaylorMade grouped players into three categories: high rotation (HR), medium rotation (MR), and low rotation (LR). Specific shaft designs consistently matched each group’s delivery patterns. Then it partnered with Mitsubishi Chemical to create three updated Reax shafts — Red, Blue and White — that matched those patterns. Red has a softer tip for HR players, White has a stiffer tip for LR players, and Blue sits in the middle for MR players.

With these shafts in place, TaylorMade intends for fitters to use the head, loft and moveable weights to produce the ball flight a player wants, while the shaft helps the golfer deliver the club more consistently.

Finally, but offering three different Qi4D drivers, TaylorMade felt nearly every player should be able to find a combination of head style, loft, shaft and adjustable features to maximize their swing.

The standard Qi4D (9, 10.5 and 12 degrees; 8-degree RH only) includes two 4-gram weights in the front heel and toe ports and two 9-gram weights in the rear ports. Fitters can configure those cartridges to create strong draw, strong fade, subtle draw or subtle fade biases. Putting both heavy weights forward lowers launch and spin while increasing speed. Placing both heavy weights in the back maximizes forgiveness and stability. The head is 4 millimeters shorter from front to back than the Qi35, but TaylorMade says it is more aerodynamic and produces about 1.2 mph more ball speed.

The Qi4D Max (9, 10.5 and 12 degrees) is the most stable and most forgiving driver in the lineup for players who struggle with inconsistent strikes. Instead of using titanium in the ring that forms the head frame, designers saved weight by using forged aluminum, which is then milled into the final structure that holds the carbon face, crown, and sole. The Max has two moveable weights, a 4-gram and a 13-gram, positioned in the front and back of the sole. The head has a built-in draw bias and less left-right adjustability than the standard Qi4D. With the 13-gram weight in the back, the moment of inertia increases significantly. The combined MOI is about 9,700 g/cm2. That does not meet the technical threshold to be labeled a 10K driver, but the Qi4D Max is TaylorMade’s first ultra-high-MOI driver with an adjustable hosel.

TaylorMade will also offer a Qi4D Lite (10.5 and 12 degrees), which is 30 grams lighter than the standard Qi4D Max and designed for golfers with slow-to-moderate clubhead speed.

The Qi4D LS (9 and 10.5 degrees; 8 degrees RH only) is the lowest-spinning and lowest-launch model. It remains a 460cc head but has a more rounded profile. The crown sits higher behind the topline and the back of the sole rises more sharply, which creates the most aerodynamic shape in the Qi4D line. The LS includes 4-gram and 15-gram weights so players and fitters can adjust launch and spin.

TaylorMade is also making its reflective fitting heads available to consumers. These heads were previously limited to fitters only. They are legal for play and allow golfers with access to Foresight launch monitors to collect clubhead data along with ball data.

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TaylorMade launches Qi4D driver family

admin — Wed, 21 Jan 2026 17:50:43 +0000

TaylorMade has unveiled its new Qi4D driver range, introducing four models designed to deliver increased speed, improved consistency and greater fitting options for golfers of all abilities.

The Qi4D family consists of the Qi4D, Qi4D LS, Qi4D Max and Qi4D Max Lite, with TaylorMade describing the range as its fastest and most fittable driver lineup to date.

All four models will be available for pre-order now, with retail availability from January 29, priced at £549. Launch Monitor Enabled (LME) versions will also be offered at £579.

According to TaylorMade, modern driver performance is increasingly defined by speed and personalisation, and the Qi4D range has been engineered to deliver both.

“Golfers are looking for a driver that’s fit for them and gives them speed off the tee,” said Brian Bazzel, TaylorMade’s Vice President of Product Creation. “From aerodynamic head shapes to improved face design and the use of lighter materials, we’ve created our fastest family of drivers.”

New Qi4D driver is shaped for speed

Carbon face technology at the core

At the heart of the Qi4D range is a new carbon face design, which TaylorMade says produces faster ball speeds than traditional titanium faces while also improving durability.

A reengineered roll radius across the face is designed to deliver more consistent spin and distance on shots struck both high and low on the face.

The drivers also feature an updated Speed Pocket, developed using Finite Element Analysis, to improve face flexibility and ball speed on common impact locations low on the face.

TaylorMade’s proven 60x Carbon Twist Face technology remains, helping reduce dispersion on off-centre strikes.

Qi4D has a Face designed for Speed

Aerodynamics and fitting

Each Qi4D head shape has been refined through hundreds of simulations to balance aerodynamic efficiency with forgiveness and stability.

TaylorMade says the improved shaping allows golfers to swing faster while maintaining confidence at address.

A major focus of the range is fitting. Drawing on data from more than 11 million driver shots, TaylorMade has developed its new REAX shaft lineup, designed to suit golfers based on their swing rotation rate — high, mid or low.

Golfers can now determine their rotation rate using a simple face-on video of their swing, helping fitters recommend the most suitable REAX shaft.

The system aims to simplify the fitting process and make customisation more accessible to everyday golfers.

Matthew Simone, Director of Product Category, Custom, said: “With Qi4D, we’ve brought custom fitting to our stock shafts.

Our driver fitting process is now more precise and efficient than ever.”

Qi4D Driver Face

Model overview

Qi4D: The most adjustable head in the range, featuring four moveable weights that allow golfers to fine-tune launch, spin, forgiveness and shot shape. Available in lofts from 8° to 12°.
Qi4D LS: The lowest-spinning and fastest model, designed for players seeking maximum speed and workability. Two moveable weights allow precise control of flight and spin.
Qi4D Max: A high-MOI driver built for forgiveness and stability, using an aircraft-grade aluminium collar to save weight while maintaining adjustability.
Qi4D Max Lite: An ultra-light option aimed at golfers looking to increase clubhead speed, featuring lighter components throughout and a distinctive two-tone head design.

All models feature a 4° loft sleeve for additional adjustability and are available with a range of REAX shaft options.

Early tour adoption

Qi4D drivers have already made an impact on the professional tours. World number one Scottie Scheffler, Rory McIlroy and Tommy Fleetwood all put the Qi4D into play towards the end of 2025, while Nelly Korda, Charley Hull and Brooke Henderson also adopted the new drivers.

Rory Mcllory with his Qi4D Driver

On the DP World Tour, Jayden Schaper secured back-to-back victories at the Alfred Dunhill Championship and the AfrAsia Bank Mauritius Open using the Qi4D LS.

TaylorMade expects the Qi4D range to see widespread use across both men’s and women’s tours as the 2026 season gets underway.

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