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Joe Ferguson has been investigating why this particular club is still flying off the shelves more than a year and a half ago after its release!
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00:00Under this head cover I have the most purchased secondhand club of 2025 and in this video I'm
00:06going to show you what that is and we're going to have a look at why it's in so many people's hands.
00:10So I called up my friends at Golf Clubs for Cash, one of the leading retailers of pre-loved
00:14equipment and I got them filtering through their database and their stats to find out which was
00:18the most sold club and this one was way out in front. Well as you can probably see it's a driver
00:25and there's your next clue I've been hitting a pretty big draw with it and your final clue here
00:34is I have been hitting this thing pretty much all over the club face and still getting some
00:39very flattering results. Have you got it yet? Well it's the tailor-made QI10 Max.
00:55So I picked mine up for £287.99 from Golf Clubs for Cash which is around half what a lot of the newer
01:05models are retailing at but what is it about this driver that's putting it in so many people's hands?
01:11Well my first thought about this was is it something to do with Rory and Scotty Scheffler while they're
01:16playing different models of this QI10, they're playing more the core model, people are still
01:21seeing it on television with this familiar blue face and black crown the contrast there
01:26seeing it winning grand slams and multiple majors and maybe they just want a piece of the action.
01:31My other thought is there is as I showed there a distinct draw bias to this model so so many of
01:37you out there will be struggling with that left to right slice again maybe that's part of the reason
01:42this is getting purchased by so many people and also we've got this 10k revolution so this is the driver
01:48that the whole QI10 range was named after because of the 10k inertia and it's all about stability
01:56and moving weight back to make it as forgiving as possible permit me to demonstrate.
02:00Right everybody this is Tom say hi Tom.
02:02Hi Tom.
02:03Excellent so we're going to demonstrate now Tom's going to stand there in his normal guise
02:07and if I want to push him over it's really quite easy.
02:13Sorry about that Tom but what we're going to do now is demonstrate the power of MOI and
02:16center of gravity so Tom's in the same sort of stance but we're going to move that foot back
02:20like we do with the QI10 Max getting all the way back and all of a sudden
02:24he's really quite difficult to move.
02:26So the level of stability and forgiveness on this driver is quite clearly a massive draw to all golfers
02:31I said in my initial review on Golf Monthly this might be one of the straightest drivers I've ever
02:36tried but honestly why it's in so many people's hands I think the secret sauce may lie a little deeper
02:42and I actually think it's to do with playing length.
02:44So it's all to do with the head design here when they made this QI10 Max driver and they wanted to
02:49spread the footprint out wide so they could get the mass and everything to the perimeter of the club
02:53they kind of squashed the club down so they could spread it wider and when they squash that club down
02:58the point where the shaft enters the head on this QI10 Max is actually lower to the ground so compared
03:04to the QI10 Core or the QI10 LS this model if you put the same shaft in will play around quarter of an
03:11inch shorter than those other models and I think it's one of the reasons that so many people get on
03:15well with this driver without even realizing it. Many of you will know that drivers have just gotten
03:21longer and longer as a standard length over the past few years there was a time not too long ago when
03:25the standard drive would have been about 44 or even 43 and a half inches but with the quest for speed
03:31and the game getting bigger manufacturers have been making their standard drivers longer and longer
03:36and longer and what that does quite often is it makes it more difficult for people to find the
03:41centre of the face so I do wonder whether just making this slightly shorter in playing length without
03:47even people really noticing is helping people find the middle more and thus getting them more
03:51successful off the tee. It's actually one of the many reasons why I think these mini drivers have been so
03:56successful over the past few years getting back to a more controllable length for a lot of people like
04:02for example this one for me that I play currently plays at 43 and a half inches so again like I said
04:08back to kind of what a more standard driver used to be so when I get over the ball I feel like I can just
04:16find the centre of the club face more easily but I can hear many of you out there saying if I go down
04:22in shaft length isn't that going to cost me club head speed and as such distance well why don't we find out
04:28so I brought with me three identical shafts these are KBS PGW shafts tailor-made tips on them same grips
04:35everything done the same but I've got them at completely different lengths so I've got a 44 inch
04:39a 45 inch and a 46 inch because I actually want to quantify this I want to find out if I do lose speed
04:46when I go down in length or if I'm sacrificing everything else so let's kick it off let's hit a few shots
04:51I'm going to start with the longest one I'm going to start 46 inches right so I've got the 46 inch
04:57driver in my hands and already just waggling it it feels a little bit more cumbersome I play something
05:03around the 45 inch mark as a general rule so even just that extra inch does feel a little bit cumbersome
05:10so I've got my foresight sports gc3 launch monitor here I'm going to hit a few away and start to get an
05:16idea of club head speed and ball speed it's a good hit to start things going some fairly impressive
05:26ball speed there I'll give myself that one let's hit a few more away get some good averages and then
05:32we'll have a chat about it let's flip it over to the 45 and see what we get from there
06:02so
06:04so
06:14so
06:16so
06:22right okay so speed wise some interesting stuff to talk about i'm going to find a comfortable
06:38seat and i'll walk you through it right so the data there is really interesting and i actually
06:42very much enjoyed doing that i've been wanting to do that for some time just hit a load of
06:46different identical driver shafts of separate lengths to see what actually it does make in
06:50terms of difference to both club head speed and ball speed which we're going to talk about both here
06:55so in terms of club head speed if you felt going down in shaft length was going to compromise
07:00your club head speed well yeah you're right from my data here that's exactly what happened so i was
07:06115 miles an hour with the 44 inch driver i was at 117 miles an hour with a 45 inch driver and i was
07:14nearly at 120 with the 46 inch driver so it's kind of mid to late 119s there so for sure
07:20the input as i would call it there the club head speed has gone up but when you look a little bit
07:26further the output which would be ball speed so club head speed being our input ball speed being our
07:32output has actually gone completely the other way so i'll start with the 46 inch driver i had nearly
07:39everything with that my my best strike was nearly 180 miles per hour of ball speed which is great but
07:45my worst strike was in the mid 160s and that averaged out at 170.4 miles an hour of ball speed with a smash
07:53factor which for those of you don't know is your ball speed divided by your club head speeds it's kind
07:57of a measure of efficiency of 1.42 which is a little bit on the low side for me there so that shows
08:04maybe i wasn't quite hitting the center of the face as much as i would have liked to when i went
08:09up to the 45 inch driver sorry rather down to the 45 inch driver my ball speed went up a little bit
08:17from that so 171 miles per hour 1.46 smash factor so that would suggest that i'm getting closer
08:24to the middle and when i went down into that 44 inch drive which i said felt like a junior club
08:29or even my three would well that was my quickest ball speed despite having the slowest club head
08:36speed so the slowest input gave me the quickest output i was averaging 172.5 miles an hour of ball
08:43speed there which gave me a really super optimal smash factor of 1.50 and also dispersion truth be
08:50told i was all over the map with that 46 inch driver i didn't find many failures i think probably
08:56one of the shots i hit would have been maybe center of the fairway other than that there was a little
09:01bit there was a little bit of dispersion going on however the 44 inch made it significantly easier
09:08as i said to find the center of the face and the more i think about this and the more players i see
09:13you very rarely see anyone flush the ball out the middle of the face miles offline most of the dispersion
09:19issues i see when i play pro-ams or with people i'm doing fittings or lessons with whatever come
09:24from misstruck shots so out of the heel and out of the toe so what we've got here in my opinion is
09:31going down in shaft length in this instance at least for me has allowed me to find the center of
09:35the face more which has actually made it quicker but not only is it quicker being more in control of
09:40that club and finding the center of the face has actually made it straighter for me as well so
09:46there's a lesson here i think if you struggle with your accuracy or off the tee at all it really
09:51might well be worth experimenting with a shorter driver to see if you see the same results as me
09:57there on top of that sticking on top of it the qi10 max probably arguably the most stable driver i've
10:03tested in around five years you're probably in a good spot so that's showing me exactly why so many
10:10people have been flocking to the second hand market to buy this tailor-made qi10 max driver first
10:15off is incredibly stable and forgiving on those miss hits secondly it does have that little bit
10:21of inherent draw bias to help mitigate that slice for a lot of people who struggle with that shot
10:25and finally i hope that little experiment i've done there in terms of shaft length has given you
10:30something to think about for your own game now don't forget to check out golf clubs with cash or pop
10:35their website in the description below thanks for watching and we'll see you next time
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