Today, our expert Lou is comparing 5 different generations of TaylorMade fairway woods! ⛳
We’re taking a trip back in time with this one as we try to determine which fairway wood offers the best performance and we’re looking to see how much technology has evolved through the years! 📈💥
To take a look at the fairway woods featured in this video, visit the links below: 👀
– TaylorMade Qi35 Tour Faiway Wood –
– TaylorMade Qi10 Tour Faiway Wood –
– TaylorMade M3 Faiway Wood –
– TaylorMade Burner Superfast Faiway Wood –
– TaylorMade Burner Bubble Faiway Wood –
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0:00 Intro
What’s up everyone? Lou here for Golf Avenue and we’re back with another comparison. This time we’re sticking with Tailor Made, but we’re looking at Fairway Woods after looking at game improvement irons in our last video. We got five models on deck today going all the way back to the ’90s. So, I’m very excited to test it and see what the results are. So, let’s not waste any more time and let’s start testing our clubs. So, first up, we’ve got the Tailor Made Burner. Not anyone though, the Burner Bubble from 1997. So, let’s put it up to the test and see what kind of data we’re getting with that one. All right, so I just finished testing the burner bubble. Um, honestly, it was a lot more comfortable in my hands than I expected it to be. The small club head, the older shaft, the older grip really had me worried. Uh, but it was all for none. Honestly, it was pretty pretty pretty good for a club that’s almost 30 years old at this point. Uh what I will say is that when it comes to contact, that’s where you’ll have the most problem with the burner bubble. Still good. Don’t get me wrong. Decent decent distances, but uh it’s where the forgiveness has evolved a lot. Anything closer to the toe or anything closer to the heel would end up in a hook or a push fade. Um I would say that hitting the center of the club face is somewhat pretty easy and will give you decent ball flights, but don’t expect it to be a bomber or anything like that. It’s a really older club. It’s more made for the feel of the ball and you do really feel the ball well at impact. But consequences are much more higher on offender strikes than they would be with the more recent models that we’ll try right away. Let’s move up in time and move up to the Tailor Made Super Fast Burner. So, I just wrapped up my testing with the Tailor Made Burner Super Fast. It’s incredible. Honestly, if you’re on a budget, you’re looking for fairwood that’s not too expensive, that right there will do the job for you. Honestly, after a few strikes, I was even considering swapping out my own fairway wood to put that one in the bag. But my personal gamers later on in this test, so maybe I’ll wait and see. But more seriously though, this one is incredible. I wasn’t really expecting much out of it. It’s incredibly forgiving. I did have some strikes that I know would end up in hooks or fade with some other clubs, but with this one, they were really controlled. Just nice little power draws that would just come a little on the inside. Honestly, very, very good. Very, very forgiving. Launches the ball very high and long. I’m excited to see the full data, but so far so good. I’m very impressed with that one, and I’m excited to see what we have in store with the next fairway wood, which is the Tailor Made M3. So, I just got done testing the M3 fairway wood. It does have a much smaller club head than the Super Fast. So, I was expecting a much more compact feel at impact. And that’s what I got. Honestly, it’s very tough on impact. Not in a bad way, more in a way that you’re going to feel the ball very well off the club face at impact. Uh what I will praise it for though was the dispersion. The dispersion felt I felt like it was very tight. Uh I knew that my ball would have a slight maybe a little fade just to the right, but that’s my natural trajectory. So, I didn’t have a problem with that. And when I was lining up more on the inside, the ball would start on the left end and flare right down the middle. So overall, very, very nice feeling club. As you would expect from a club that’s more designed for control with the adjustment weight here, closer to the club face. I will say though, the only downside is that if you’re not able to generate the speed that you need or if you don’t feel very confident uh hitting the ball with power, that might not be the option for you. Something like the super fast will just be easier to hit without having to generate so much energy into the golf ball. But in terms of dispersion and accuracy, the M3 was so impressive. I’m really excited to see what the full data is going to look like. All right, so I just finished with our fourth driver. This one is the Tailor Made Qi10 Tour from 2024. I personally have this club in my bag. This is not my actual gamer. This is one I took from the warehouse, but I definitely love mine. It’s great. It’s a great club. Very reliable. Uh, for this one, right off the shelf, some issues here and there, probably due to the shaft that was maybe just a touch too light for me. But otherwise, when you’re able to make good contact with this club face, the Qi10 tour, uh, the ball goes straight. It’s very piercing, which I really appreciate about you have this adjustable weight at the back of the club head. So, if you move the weight more forward, your ball flight will be lower and the ball will be more piercing. A little less spin as well off the impact. The other thing is if you move the weight more back in the club head, more forgiveness, higher launch at impact, and more spin on your strikes. So keep that in mind with the Qi10 tour. It allows you to have a little more customization, and you can still adjust uh the shaft around the huzzle. So that’s always a big plus, but otherwise, I still like my Qi 10 personally. This one off the rack maybe not for me personally exactly. But we have one more club to try out, and it’s the latest release from Tailor Made, the Qi35. So, I just got done testing the Qi35 Tour. It was a massive improvement over the Qi10 tour that I tested. Again, as I mentioned before, I like my own Qi10 tour, but this one I guess the shaft was just right for me and the mix with the club head. I felt like I was able to get the ball up in the air without too much effort. Higher spin rates on that one, so keep that in mind. I could have probably moved the weight a little more forward. The back weight is still here inside the Qi35 just like it was with the Qi10. I will say that in terms of dispersion. It was a little bit wider than what I would have wanted, but whenever I was still off the club face or off the center of the club face, even if I wasn’t near the toe or the heel, the ball was still going high up in the air, it was still traveling a good bit of distance, which was the main issue with the other clubs. As soon as the ball was off the center of the club face, it was a massive distance penalty. Somehow Tailor Made has found a way to makes it make it so that the Qi35 the ball doesn’t lose too much distance even if it’s not right in the center of the club face. But strikes that were right in the center of the club face felt great. They were straight. Really had nothing to complain about. And I felt like it was really easy to get the club face of that club on the golf ball without having too much issues. I felt like I was having a lot of issues with the Qi10. Again, not my gamer, not my shaft, but this one very easy to hit. Felt great. So, of course, we only have one more step to go, and that is take a look at the data and see which club came out on top. Now that I’ve given you my feedback on all the clubs we’ve tested, it’s now time for your favorite part of all of our videos. It’s time to look at the data. So, right off the bat, when we look at the full graph, there are a few surprises that will jump out to us. Starting off with the Qi35, it was a bit disappointing to be honest. It felt great in my hands, but the distance is just not there. It’s the shortest in total distance and it’s one of the shorter ones in terms of carry distance. So, a bit disappointing from the Qi35 if I’m being honest. And one more thing on the Qi35, it wasn’t that great at transferring the swing speed into the golf ball at impact. So, that also probably costed a bit of distance uh overall in the impact. But in terms of distance, we have two standouts. We have the Qi10 Tour and we have the Burner Super Fast. Those two really stood out, breaking the 207 mark in terms of carry distance and both being around the 235 yards mark in terms of total distance. I definitely expected this from the Qi being that it’s a year old and I personally game one in my bag. But in terms of the Super Fast, I was really impressed because it’s a 15-year-old club that still manages to hang with the more recent ones. And on top of that, it felt great at impact. So really impressive stuff from the Super Fast to this day. And last but not least, we have to give an honorable mention to our friend, the Burner Bubble. It’s the oldest club in our test, but it still managed to stand out in its own way. It definitely wasn’t the longest club, but I was still impressed with it total distance, considering the carry distance was by far the shortest of all the clubs in our test. Its roll out once the ball hit the ground was really what impressed me. And personally, I like that in my own fairway wood, so I was really surprised with that one. But I think it’s really easy to attribute this roll out to the low spin rates of the burner bubble. It was by far the lowest spinning club in our test. So, the ball was really likely to roll down once it hit the ground after the carry distance. With distances now covered, let’s take a closer look at something that you guys at home have been requesting, and we have to agree it was missing from our reviews. Let’s take a look at dispersion zones. Right off the bat, we have the Qi35. Yes, it wasn’t the longest club in our test, but its accuracy is nothing to sneeze at. It was really decent, honestly. Uh, very accurate except for those two outliers, the one on the far right and the one on the far left. Most of the other ones are all packed together, which is pretty impressive for a fairway wood. So, very respectable accuracy for the Qi35 distance. Maybe uh I’d need to have another look at it. Moving on to the Qi10 tour. It was a bit of a wider dispersion zone in that case. A few up top to the right, a few down low to the left, and a few right down the middle. Um, this is a bit worrisome because this club overall was very impressive in terms of distance, but if the accuracy is just not there from strike to strike, it could be difficult to really land or trust that club. I would argue that the strikes down on the left were probably just due to bad impact on my end. But aside from that, um, good club overall, just maybe think about accuracy when it comes to that one. Next up, we have the M3. Oddly enough, it was the best feeling clubs of all the ones I tested, but it dispersion zone was much larger than what I had envisioned in my mind while I was hitting it. Honestly, the fade was there, was very consistent, so I appreciate that a consistent uh ball trajectory. But the main issue was that there was a few strikes to the left. Only two though, so it’s pretty encouraging. And I’d say the ones that were on the left were just cuz they were much straighter, maybe pulled slightly. But aside from that, the consistency of the M3, very nice. And if you go back and look at the distance chart, very decent as well. So the M3, great option for golfers who are looking to have just that extra bit of touch with their fairwaywood at impact. Next up, we have the longest club in our test, the Burner, super fast, and it’s not just long, it’s pretty damn accurate if I’m being honest. Uh there are a few outliers that were slightly too spinny that ended up too far on the right. um natural freight for me, but aside from that, it’s an incredible weapon that probably comes in at a very low cost for most golfers. Last but not least, again, we have our burner bubble, and it’s very similar to the Qi35 in the sense that they are two singular outliers, but aside from that, the dispersion zone is very tight. So, yes, the burner maybe not the longest, but it’s quite quite quite accurate for such an older club. So, if you’re really on a tight tight tight budget, that’s a good option for you right there. So, this just about wraps things up for our comparison test. But before I let you go, I do want to point out a few of the learnings that we’ve made from our experiment today. First off, we have the Qi35, and I think we can all agree that it’s a very respectable club from Tailor Made, but it doesn’t quite raise the bar enough to justify its price over models from 15 years ago or even 10 years that are able to match it or even surpass the performance that it will offer you. Second, we love to claim that older models will match or exceed the performance of brand new ones. And from this test today, it’s pretty obvious that it’s the case. Yes, the Qi10, the one-year-old model is really, really good, but if you look at the M3 or the Burner Superfast, you’ll see that their data just matches up with the brand new clubs. And if you look at their prices online, it’ll be much more affordable than the Qi10 or the Qi35, which were released over the last 2 years. And last, but not least, it’s pretty evident that Tailor Made has great fairwood options for whatever your budget is. If you have a larger budget and you really want the highest end of technology, well, go to your local big box store, try out the Qi10, try out the Qi35, and then come back and see us at Golf Avenue. We’ll find you the right model for you at the right price that fits your budget. But if your budget is more middle of the road and you’re looking for something that will help you upgrade your set without breaking the bank too much, then consider the M3 or the Burner Super Fast from 10 or 15 years ago. Yes, those models are definitely older, but as we’ve proven today, they can match the performance of the brand new ones, and they won’t weigh nearly as much on your wallet or your holiday budget. And last, but not least, we of course have our Burner Bubble. If you are on the tightest budget of all time, yes, the Burner Bubble will fit in that budget. It will fit in your bag. No, it’s not the newest club out there, but it’s still very reliable and will produce decent performance for the price that you’ll be paying for it. And as always, before we let you go, I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for taking the time to watch this video. We always put a lot of effort behind those tests and those experiments. So, we’re always glad when you guys take the time to leave a comment, leave a like, or even choose to subscribe to the channel. Speaking of which, if you enjoyed today’s video, make sure to hit that subscribe button. We’ve got plenty of videos coming down the pipe for you, including different generational comparisons like the one we did today. And if you’ve got any ideas for us, make sure to leave it down in the comments and we’ll be happy to take it into consideration for our next video. But as always for Golf Avenue, I’ve been Lou. Until next time.
