Best Golf Shafts for a TaylorMade Qi35, and Why They’re Good

The TaylorMade Qi35 is fairly new, and promises big things. To quote the folks at TaylorMade themselves, it offers “explosive distance and undeniable forgiveness.”

These are big boasts, and the TaylorMade Qi35 promises much, but to deliver it, you need to make sure you’re wise about the shaft you pair with the club.

But before we can explore the two best golf shafts for a Qi35 (as recommended directly by TaylorMade) we should look at what the club itself offers.

What the TaylorMade Qi35 Offers

To extract “explosive distance” and such extreme forgiveness from a club head, TaylorMade has put some serious innovations into the design of the Qi35.

For one, this TaylorMade driver is not just made with carbon fiber (in the way of some other new clubs) but instead features multi-material construction.

This one is made not only from carbon, but also steel, chromium, titanium, tungsten and aluminum, all of which boast slightly different characteristics with respect to weight, strength, elasticity, and energy transfer.

The TaylorMade Qi35 is also made with no one but two positionable weights that allow golfers to customize shot shape and fine tune launch and spin - with the weights back, shot dispersion is considerably tighter, whereas with the weights forward, the club tends to produce longer drives.

The TaylorMade Qi35 also incorporates numerous other design features that improve performance and control, including but not limited to TaylorMade’s “Twist Face,” “Thru-Slot Speed Pocket,” and an “Infinity Carbon Crown.”

Together these features deliver extreme inertia and a near-zero CG projection, generating serious carry distance and minimal shot dispersion.

It’s the best of both worlds, and the standard Qi35 produces mid-low spin, mid launch, and high forgiveness, which should start to give you an impression of what some of the best golf shafts for it might be.

According to TaylorMade, the best of the best are the two following.

Fujikura Ventus Blue

You may be familiar with the Fujikura Ventus Blue, in which case it should be obvious to you why this would make a good match for the TaylorMade Qi35, as so described.

If you are not familiar with the Fujikura Ventus Blue decreased in stiffness from tip to butt, with an ultra-stiff tip section, a stiff midsection, and a firm butt.

This results in an extremely stable tip section that delivers consistent performance, along with a stable and consistent midsection that produces (typically) mid launch profiles and low spin.

Mid launch and low spin are two attributes that pair well with a driver head that offers the same, and on top of that, low spin helps control shot dispersion while a mid launch profile is just aggressive enough to generate the carry distance needed.

Moreover, the Fujikura Ventus Blue, even though it is not as tolerant of fast swing speeds as the Ventus Black, is still a great option for players that swing hard and fast. It’s stabilized by VeloCore Technology, a multimedia bias core that resists shaft deformation and helps minimize shot-to-shot variation.

All in all, the Fujikura Ventus Blue pairs well not just with the Qi35, but with the widest range of golfers. Only golfers on extreme ends of the spectrum, with either very fast or very slow swing speeds, would appreciate some other shaft better.

Mitsubishi Diamana T+ 60

The Mitsubishi Diamana T+ 60 is a proprietary shaft made by Mitsubishi for TaylorMade, so it’s unsurprising that it makes a good pairing with the TaylorMade Qi35.

Here’s where things get interesting. In terms of performance, the Diamana T+ 60 is actually pretty similar to the Fujikura Ventus Blue.

It is touted as an extremely stable, extremely consistent shaft that performs similarly to the Diamana GT (as far as other Mitsubishi shafts are concerned). But as far as its similarity to the Fujikura Ventus Blue, this is also a mid-launch, low-spin shaft.

That, paired with exceptional stability, gives you the same balance of attributes that make the Ventus Blue appealing.

Both shafts will generate great carry distance without the added threat of higher shot dispersion (which is also somewhat controlled by the Qi35 itself) and are very stable, minimizing variability across different shots.

So, like the Fujikura Ventus Blue, the Mitsubishi Diamana T+ 60 should perform well in the hands of a very wide range of golfers, except outliers with the highest and slowest swing speeds.

If you’re in that middle range of the spectrum, both of these are among the best golf shafts for a TaylorMade Qi35.

Not Sure If These Are the Best Golf Shafts for a TaylorMade Qi35? We Have You Covered

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