WHICH IS BEST?! Titleist T250 vs Taylormade P790 – Players Distance Battle (WITH MISHITS!)

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TaylorMade P790 vs Titleist T250 | Best Player’s Distance Iron 2025?

In this in-depth iron comparison, we put two of the hottest players distance irons head-to-head — the TaylorMade P790 (2023) vs the brand new Titleist T250 (2025). Both irons are designed to offer the perfect blend of distance, forgiveness, and feel, but which one truly delivers for your game?

We take a deep dive into every aspect of performance:
✅ Ball speed
✅ Carry distance
✅ Spin rates
✅ Launch and descent angles
✅ Forgiveness on mishits
✅ Feel and sound

We tested both good strikes and terrible mishits to see how each iron performs in real-world conditions, not just perfect swings. Using industry-leading launch monitor data from the GC Quad, we break down the numbers and give you a clear verdict on which iron might suit your game best.

Whether you’re a mid-handicap golfer looking for more distance, or a low-handicap player searching for a modern iron with added forgiveness, this test will help you make the right choice.

⛳ WATCH UNTIL THE END for our final verdict and fitting advice!

Timestamps:
00:00 Intro
01:13 – Taylormade P790 Hitting (Tom)
06:33 – Taylormade P790 Average Numbers
06:56 – Titleist T250 Hitting (Tom)
15:13 – Numbers Comparison
15:59 – Toms Verdict – Which Would He Choose?!
17:31 – MISHIT TIME!! (Ross)
17:49 – P790 Good Hit (Baseline)
18:22 – T250 Good Hit (Baseline)
18:52 – P790 Toe Strikes
19:39 – T250 Toe Strikes
20:54 – Toe Strike Comparison Data
21:16 – T250 Heel Strikes
22:14 – P790 Heel Strikes
22:58 – Heel Strike Comparison Data
23:19 – Ross’s Summary & Conclusion

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the brand new Titist T250. How is that going to stack up against what many consider to be the gold standard of players distance irons, the P790? Well, today we’re going to find out because we’re putting these clubs head-to-head on GC Quad, and you guys already know we do the best, most indepth, honest head-to-head tests anywhere on YouTube. So, first of all, we got Tom doing the hitting, getting us some good shots and good average data sets to take a look at. And then later on I jump in and I mis hit the absolute hell out of both of these irons out the heel at the toe. Get some really good examples of m hits, average data sets of m hits to really try and see how do these heads compare not only on a good shot and a good average data set, but also want to hit it all over the face. We are closing in on 50,000 subscribers and we already know you guys love our content. So, if you do love our content and you’re one of the many, many, many thousand that watch our videos and have not subscribed, please do consider subscribing. We are trying to grow and we need your help and support to do so. So, if you’ve ever learned anything valuable from any of our videos and just generally enjoy our content, it would mean the world to us if you could just smash that like button and go down and subscribe. Right, mate. We’re going to start off in the P790. Obviously, both clubs will be pretty much set exactly the same specs. So, we’ve got them playing basically two flats, sort of matched lie angle as much as possible. Obviously, the heads are pretty much the same loft. Anyway, we’ve got the same shafts going into both of them, which is the Neo 950 GH stiff. So, yeah, start off with the P790, mate. Get some baselines and uh let’s go from there. Actually sounded really good. Yeah, a little bit bottom, I reckon, if anything, but pretty good start. Yeah, it’s pretty good to be fair, mate. Like just below the red lines normally pretty much exactly where we want to hit that iron third to fourth groove. Yeah. Damn solid. Decent efficiency. Spins well, doesn’t it? I mean, like we know you are a bit of a spinny a spinny Joe, aren’t you? You know, a bit spinny at the moment. Yes. Yeah. Yes. Hitting down with with arguably a little bit too much loft. So, yeah. A bit spinny. Yeah. I mean, you’re taking it a couple I mean, that’s 30.5, isn’t it? So, you’re taking off a couple of degrees of loft. Again, we wouldn’t mind a little bit more, but it’s not awful. Hitting four degrees down, you know, good. Peak height 101, descent 48 and a half at around that sort of one high 150s carry. It’s not bad numbers. It’s really good numbers. Probably why it sounded funny because had it out the middle. Yeah, that’s that’s I was a little bit surprised in my voice there like, “Oh, that sounded quite nice.” Yeah. And I was like, “Oh, that sounded a bit off the bottom. Just not used to what it sounds like out of the middle.” You see, that sounded nice. Yeah, that was a pretty close to a flush, I think. Go in big hop. Go on. Oh, yeah. That result, mate. It’s just going to be interesting to see how these two heads just compare straight off the bat. So this is literally we’ve just unwrapped the T250 like you’ve had a few hits but obviously we had a hit of woven but in the studio comparing them against other brands heads that are obviously similar design similar loft similar category P7i is one of the best we still do really really well with it in fins it’s a such a good iron just saying out and out performance good ones bad ones it’s going to be interesting yeah I don’t know a little bit low heel yeah that was Like that was pretty close to an unmentionable. Oh no, maybe just a little bit thin. Yeah, just thin. Like just a bit off the bottom. Um but in all honesty, it’ be going to be good to see some m hits as well to see how they perform. So again, we see launch come down, spin come up from that gear effect from a low strike, which we know that happens. Carry drops down to 148, but ultimately that is not killing you at all. That miss. That’s nice, mate. Hitting the ball well. Yeah, struck that nice to be fair. Yeah, I mean it does sound nice when you hit it. I’ve always like I’ve always liked the sound of the kind of more game improvement slash players distance. I do like that louder sound. I’ve said that to you before and you were kind of quite beused by it. But sounds hit sounds like hit. That’s what I like. Cracky thuddy kind of like Yeah, it does. And yeah, again, it’s decent numbers. I mean, it’s getting plenty of spin. Arguably, I mean, even a bit too much, right? We know that it’s going to spin more outside off grass than it does in here. I mean, conditions dependent, rough, wet, dry, etc. But if you’re off a nice firm, dry fairway, it’s going to spin. That would probably be around seven, not far off seven outside. So, for someone who launches it a little bit high like yourself, don’t necessarily want it launching high and then spinning really high. I mean, it’s just just too much up and you’ll be losing forward momentum. So, arguably even that head a bit spinny for you, but you know, good carried version is really solid. Even front to back with that slight mis hits doing really well. Yeah, I mean, we know this is kind of the gold standard of players distance, isn’t it? Which is why it’s going to be so interesting to compare the new T250. Sounded nice. That felt lovely. I mean, it’s a good iron, isn’t it? I mean, you could absolutely game it. Oh, yeah. Like a million%. Like I Yeah. Starting to wonder why I don’t game. But no, it’s um Yeah, it’s a gorgeous iron. Sounds good. It feels good. That felt lovely. Yeah, you’re almost hitting this too well. Normally, normally by now you’ve had quite a few mish hits, but you haven’t for some reason. I mean, iron ball striking is not my forte, is it? Like even in the warm-up like it wasn’t this it was like it’s on repeating like come on just hit a couple cuz we we want to see some bad ones as well. I know you you’ve hit a couple bottom group but none of them have been like awful. And again that left to right I mean like you say you always see that slightly diagonal dispersion pattern there of slightly longer left to slightly shorter right obviously that’s always going to be the case with every club because an open face hence why it goes right reduces carry reduces distance closed face less loft goes longer it’s going to happen with every club what we hit there nine shots or so nine 10 shots and it’s pretty good average numbers 154 carry about 6 and a half spin 22 launch 103 peak height 49 descent like it’s probably is a little on the spinny side. Um, but it’s certainly an iron that you could gain. Yes. Yeah, 100%. That was a little chunky. Might get away with it, though. Oh, no. It wasn’t chunky. It was just towy. Yeah, I was going to say it see it looked towy. Okay. But you, you know, I think you were fed up of me and it out the middle all the time, so I thought I’d give you one out. Give me one out the toe. Yeah. Cheers, mate. Again, like you say, it’s done well. Strong delivery from you out to enclosed face. It’s a strong delivery, but yeah. air tow and 152 carry, 13 offline. It’s pretty good result. So about 15 shots hit there. So a few not great ones, a few good ones. That’s probably fair average numbers. I’d say that, isn’t it? Sort of 111 112 ball speed, 21 a half launch, 6,200 backspin, carrying around 155 on average. We know the best ones were kind of towards the high 150s, average ones dropping into the sort of high 140s. So an average of 155. So pretty good average numbers. So, jumping into the T250. Looks wise. Yeah, it’s clean, isn’t it? Looks good. Really good. I like the finish. Um, yeah, definitely a little bit slimmer on the top line. Yeah, definitely. Bit slimmer on the sole as well. Yeah. So, it’s good good looking golf club. It looks very small, doesn’t it? For a for a for a players distance, they do give you a very players profile. Yeah. Yeah. Like Tus have always had that sort of players reputation. So, I think they try and build that into the design of the clubs. You’re right. It’s it’s a hollow body construction iron with a lot of technology in it that’s that’s pretty strong in loft, but it looks like a blade almost in a bag. The profile is definitely smaller than the 790. 790 is got a bit of a blocky kind of top line. Yeah, it’s a little bit more squared off and a bit blockier like you said. Yeah, definitely looks like a nicer profile down by the ball. How was that strike? Yeah, it felt really good. Looks like it popped up. Uh, no. 28 loft, 22 launch. Yeah. I It’s pretty similar to the 790, I think. Interesting. Yeah. No, I mean, low spin again. It was fractionally higher in the face. We were probably seeing mid to high fives from that strike with the 790s. That spin’s come down a little bit. Launch similar carry similar 158 peak similar 103 48 and a half. So, it’s still a good ball flight. There’s still good distance. Just slightly different spin profile on that one. That was a little better. Yeah, it sounded cleaner. Bit healy though. It’s doing well, isn’t it? I mean, it’s flying. Yeah, it does still sound and I don’t know if this is coming through to you. It does still sound a touch like higher pitch. It I I was about to say it sounds to me I think clicky is probably the wrong word, but it’s certainly a harsher sound. Like higher pitch. Yeah. Doesn’t sound as soft. I mean, this is something that I think they’ve they’ve been trying to sort of fine-tune almost in this T200 250 sort of model because previously they were always quite clicky, weren’t they? A lot of people did moan about a bit that bit high pitch click off the previous models and I think it’s better. Again, we’ll do a new verse old. That will come. Um, and that will obviously give us the answers more so then. I think it’s probably better, but it does still have that little bit compared to the P790. It’s a bit of a duller, crackier thud. That’s a little bit sort of higher pitch still. That sounded better. It’s a little bit better. If anything, that might have been a little thin. Well, that’s probably good. It’s where we want to hit it. Yeah, like straight away. Best shot. I think you just need to thin it. Well, that was I’ I’d say that that’s a fairer strike compared to what I was doing with the 790. 100%. 100%. And that Yeah, it’s a good delivery. Okay. Maybe fractionally close face, but it’s only nine offline. And that 100% would have spun more with the P790. That 100% would have been higher spin than that. Like probably into the sixes. And this is something I actually used to find with previous models of the T200 was a bit lower spin. Always found it a little higher launch, a little lower spin. And again, it seems against the 790 so far, similar kind of theme. Yeah, sounded better. Just got through that one. Just looks like it’s going higher. Like I don’t think it is, but it look I mean that’s that’s jumped. Yeah, but I I actually put a really good swing on that. I know you put loads of really good swings on the um on the 790. Yeah, 117 ball is quite a big jump for me. I don’t normally see seven eye at 117 ball. Well, I think if we look at the best shot with the P790, there is Yeah, in fairness like there wasn’t there was a 115 114.6. That’s where I’d normally see seven on like 114 114 ball is where I’d expect to see it. So 117 is quite a big jump. I mean it’s just you’re talking such fractional margins though because the efficiency. So this this shot I’m showing you now was the P790. That’s one of the better shots from P790 and that’s 133 efficiency. So we got exactly the same efficiency out of it because that last one with the T250 was also 133 efficiency. You just swang it a little bit faster, which again you’re not trying to do. Is that the club? Is it you? A combo of the boat? I don’t know. But that’s going to be a combo of a little bit more club speed leading to a little bit more ball speed and lower spin. It’s about 500 revs lower spin. That jumped to 165 carry 114 ft 50 descent. It’s popping up as well. Like it’s really that is that’s getting some height. Sounded not bad. Yeah, that’s nice. Get back fader. Had a couple had a couple very similar to that with a 790, didn’t we? In fairness 22 and a half launch, 6,000 spin like basically bang on the line. 158 carry. Yeah. So yeah, that that one was 790. So obviously 156 carry, 87 swing speed. It just I think it just spins a little bit more like 68 again. What was that one we just hit there with the T250? Probably wasn’t quite a comparable strike in fairness. That was a couple of mil higher. Spins at 6,000, but it’s still only two yards of carry difference really. Like swing speed was very similar. Efficiency was very similar. Carry there was two yards difference in it. Yeah. I mean, realistically, regardless of the fact that spins a bit different, the end result basically the same. I’m just swinging it better now. That’s a lovely golf shot again, if I may say so myself. Probably shouldn’t say that about your own shot, should you? Yeah. No, you you absolutely may not say so. But that So, just coming back on feel now, now that I’ve started hitting the face up, that feels good. Feels very solid. Um definitely still does have a louder harsher tone though than the 790. Definitely softer in the 790 but um still a very nice feel. Yes, it doesn’t sound quite as good in here. Anyway, again we are inside it’s echoey and all that jazz but it doesn’t have that quite 790 really sounds like dull and soft dull and yeah that does sound a little bit going to say it sounds hit but in a different way. And I mean that’s probably not far off in any way the best one that we had with the P790. So this one here was the one of the best shots earlier on that we had with the P790. You know, 133 efficiency, pretty decent strike, 22 and a half launch, 6,400 backspin, 158 carry. And that one we just hit there. Fractionally more left, but again very very similar. Efficiency maybe slightly down in fairness. Strike pretty comparable. Just it the one thing that’s standing out is probably just a little bit lower launch lower spin, isn’t it? Well, I don’t know. On average, is it is it launching a bit lower? No, not really. It definitely is spinning lower though. Definitely is lower spin. That’s close. It sounded like it should be spinny. That That was a more off the bottom, a slightly healy strike. Yeah, fractionally. I mean, it wasn’t really low. It was a little bit healy. I mean that height isn’t bad but again yeah 61 just just yeah lower spin lower spin I feel like the efficiency is down slightly as well fractionally but again the end result 154 carry zero offline even when we say you know very best ones are in around that 160 it’s half a club drop for a slight mishit down the line pretty solid oh that felt so good nice shot yeah they they mean both to be Both of them do feel amazing when you hit them. You get them well. They’re just such good irons. No, they’re not going to feel bad. Like it it does definitely sound clackier. It does 100%. Um and yeah, just low spin just is Yeah, again it wasn’t it was maybe a mill or so higher on the face, but 5500 spin. So the reality is I feel like the ball speed’s fractionally down on that. I do feel like you were connecting slightly better with the P790. So the ball speed I feel is probably fractionally down but the spin is also down which kind of like compensates for this slight lower ball speed. So if it spins lower it’s going to go further basically. So 5500 spin. I mean you could absolutely play that though. I I would actually argue that that’s better for you than than the spin of the P790 that was at times too much. I think bearing in mind it’s going to spin a lot more off grass. Like there would some of them that would just spin way too much. I think that would actually be a better iron for you performance-wise. I mean look how close that is now. Again, ball speed the same launch fractionally more from the T250 spin. Again, we still see a similar thing. 4 500 revs lower from the T250 and then two yards more carry with the T250. Again, I feel like that’s a very, very fair comparison there in all honesty. Efficiency kind of closes a little bit. There was one that was just really bad with the T250 that we should have taken out anyway to be honest. But again, loft the same, lie the same, face the same, path the same, attack within half a degree. Like it’s just unbelievably close, isn’t it? Like the only real takeaway from a performance perspective is spin. It’s definitely 4 500 revs lower spin than the 790. Definitely on good strikes and on mish hits, it just seems to be that slightly lower spin car, doesn’t it? So from your perspective now, like taking into account, we’ve we’ve hit these for like an hour now. You’ve hit them both. Which one would you pick? I got to be honest, I I would I would struggle to not pick on the looks of the Titus. I just think it looks amazing in the bag. It would just just sit there really nicely, wouldn’t it? Make you look like a really good player, even if you’re not till you shank it off the first. Yeah. Yeah. But um yeah, I just think the looks are amazing. I can get over the slightly higher pitched um sort of tone on the sound because I’ve played clicky irons before and I quite I’ve told you before, I quite enjoy a louder sound. Yeah. Um you know, I like I like the feeling of, you know, when I’ve hit the ball, it sounds like it’s been hit, you know. Yeah. Um so I I would Yeah, I could 100% play those. I think, you know, nod to the P790 is a fantastic iron. Feels great, sounds lovely. Uh performance obviously is really good, but I just think for me, if I was choosing between those, it would be basically on the looks, which is subjective. It’s my opinion. I just I just Yeah, that’s a stunning iron play. I agree. I think even performance, you’d edge it to that. As we said, spins a bit low, which is going to be a better spin profile for you. It’s not going to spin up as much outside of your miss being maybe that little low neck open face. It just spins up weak right like so the the the T250 is going to be a better spin profile for you. And I mean even the peak height 103 to 105 descent angle 4949. The actual flight peak height and descent identical like no different at all. So stopping power is not going to be impaired whatsoever by the slightly lower spin. If anything, it’s just going to get you a little couple of extra yards. Maybe a little bit better on those misses for you. And yeah, just um just get there that little bit more often. So we now know how these perform on good hits and on an average data set as well. But the question is how do they perform on missits? And to test that, I’m now going to be hitting multiple shots all across the face, heel, toe to the millimeter, trying to get really good examples with each to test and see if I can see any difference in drop off and forgiveness. Right, we start off in the P790 and I’m just going to show you a really good strike to see what distance it goes on a good one so we can see the relative drop off when I miss it. That was flushed. So, sorry for the noise. We got some building works going on back there. Having a new bay put in. Yeah, I mean, okay, that was fractionally towed, but it was like really clean. 14 efficiency is that’s hot. It’s a pretty good baseline. It’s 17 yards offline. A little bit of a draw, but it was a really good strike. 194 carry. Oh, that was ripped. That’s so loud. Terrible timing. It’s got a little bit more left in fairness. That was a very, very similar strike. Yeah, it’s very comparable. very comparable strike. It was four yards more left than the shot with the P790, but the launch was exactly the same. The spin was only actually 200 revs difference. Main difference was just the ball speed, which gave us three more yards, but really they’re both very good baselines to see how much drop off we’re going to get on these m hits. Back into the 790. Going to get some toe strikes. Okay. Yeah, we’re not hitting it much more to that straight off the bat. That was a really good example of a terrible mishit. Wow. Yeah. I mean, that was nearly off the face. 23 mm toe. I mean, the delivery was really good, so it finished up nice and straight, but we see that carrier drop down to 165, which is basically a 30 yard drop off. I think that was even worse. Yeah, slightly better carry because I closed the face a little bit more, but it was an awful strike. Yeah, 28 mil toe. Oh, wow. And again, I mean, from a distance perspective, you can’t really grumble at that. Into the T250. So, with the P790 with the strikes about 27 28 mil in the toe, we were seeing drops to about 170 carry. When I missed it off the face, 33 mm out of the toe, it dropped to about 160. So, let’s see what we get out of this. That’s That will be really interesting cuz again that was pretty towy. Wow. That’s done really well. Yeah. 18 mil. Okay. So again, not awful, but it didn’t feel good and dropped off 20 yards. Oh, there we go. That was a really bad one. That will be interesting. Yeah. 160 carry. So it should be around 33 mil, similar to the 790, I reckon. 27 mil. Okay. Interesting. 27 mil and that was 160 carry. Interesting. Oh, that was awful. He’s gone a little bit left in fairness. He’s done well though. Yeah, 26 mil toe 172 carry. Again, the face was fractionally more closed on that one. So, that would have had a bit of an impact. But again, in terms of that out and out toe strike and where that was 26 mil toe again nearly off the face to be carrying 172 solid. I mean, you got to say these are both really impressive mish hits and that is ridiculous. I didn’t delete any shots. I was just trying to mish hit it. Ball speed identical and carry one yard in it. So, as we would expect trying to split them on to strikes, even with this technology measuring to the millimeter, looking at where they go, relative drop off, it’s impossible to say, but they’re both really good. Sticking in the T250, let’s get some heel strikes. get it was like slight heel but not really. Yeah. Be interesting to see. Yeah. I mean, yeah, still 15 mil heel. Didn’t feel as bad as difference in like 2 3 mm can be big in terms of how it felt, but I mean it’s still reasonable drop off. So, it was still quite healy. Okay. I’m probably not swinging quite as fast trying to effectively shank it. It’s quite difficult to keep all the variables the same. But I mean again a 170 carry with a pretty straight ball flight from that strike. Solid that just feels like actually stings the fingertips that one. Yeah, that’s unbelievable. That is unbelievably impressive. Yeah, again 70 mil heel. Felt that one in me fingers that vibrated but 166 carry pretty straight. You just Yeah. Can’t be upset with that. And back into the P790. test its heel. Tell you what, that would be interesting because again, it was it was a bit heel similar to a couple with the T250, but not horrendous. Yeah, 12 mil 12 mil heel, 173 carry. Quite interesting because that shot there was the T250. So, we can see 13 mil heel. That one carried 172 at five offline. That was That was one of them ones that kind of shocked the fingers again. Yeah, that’s actually done really well. Was like high heel. 13 mil heel. Bit high. That’s why it felt horrible. It was a little bit heavy basically. Yeah. 164 carry. That’s that’s impressive. Heel comparison average. We did actually see a little bit more ball speed coming from the P790. I must say I was impressed with the performance from the heel of the P790. Getting some really, really good results. So, we do see a little bit more ball speed leading to four extra yards carry. Very similar dispersion front to back and left to right. So, again, hit for hit. There’s not a dramatic difference in it. Heel strikes, maybe edge it to the P790. So, there we go. I hope you enjoyed that video quickfire summary. I think from both mine and Tom’s perspective, looks wise, we would be going to the T250. And I’m not sure if we mentioned this in the video, but the screw, that’s a swing weight screw. So, we’ve got multiple different weights that we can change in order to change the swing weight when we’re fitting. The normal head obviously doesn’t have that. It’s got the big Titless logo along the top, and it’s much much cleaner. Looks wise, we’d be going tight list both from the back and from a dress. A little bit more compact look. From my perspective, feel-wise and soundwise, I would be edging that to the P790. It’s just that little bit of a duller tone and feels a touch softer. And maybe those things are linked. But, you know, they both feel good, but the P790 probably just edges that out for me performance-wise. I mean, the reality is there there’s basically no no real difference to be honest. I mean, the the T250 does spin a little lower. That’s probably the main takeaway. It is a lower spin head. So, if that’s something that you need, you do generate a bit too much spin. Exactly like Tom, T250 is going to be a slight winner for you. Whereas, if you need something that’s going to give you that little bit of extra spin, the P790 is going to be great. But in all honesty, in this category, could you go wrong with either of these irons? Like, absolutely not. They’re both phenomenal. Even in my forgiveness testing, and I was hitting them for probably a good hour, just miss hitting them on purpose, looking at every shot, looking at the drop off. I mean, honestly, it as you’d expect, a similar construction head, loads of technology, similar specs, similar loft, similar setup. It’s almost impossible for me to say, they are genuinely both phenomenal across the face. They’re genuinely both phenomenal players distance irons, and you genuinely couldn’t go wrong picking either one to be honest. But, as always, make sure you get fitted cuz neither of these irons could be any good for you in all honesty. But make sure you get fitted. Hopefully, you enjoyed the video. 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