A$215 to A$349 a club: Qi Max, Quantum Max, G440 or T350, and how Australians buy and get fitted

Spring is the season Australians think about new irons. The comps are full again, the fairways are firming up, and the club fitter’s diary starts to fill. If the irons in your bag date from before COVID, four sets will dominate the conversation this year: TaylorMade’s Qi Max and Callaway’s Quantum Max, both released in early 2026, and Ping’s G440 and Titleist’s T350, which came out in 2025 and remain the current models. The local twist is in the price. In Australia all four are sold by the club, not as a boxed set, and in October 2026 a national chain listed them between A$215 and A$349 a club in steel. That turns the Callaway, the dearest of the big three in the US, into the cheapest here by a clear margin. Below you will find what each maker says about its iron, what a six-club set works out at in Australian dollars, what golfers who own or have hit them report, and how to buy and get fitted in this country. Nothing here was hit by anyone at Panxis Golf: it is a product overview and a summary of public opinion.

Prices first: the per-club arithmetic

Because each iron is priced on its own, the cost of a set depends entirely on how many clubs you order. The most common make-up among the golfers these irons are designed for is 5-iron to pitching wedge, six clubs, often with a matching gap wedge added. These were the per-club prices listed at an Australian chain in October 2026, including GST, multiplied out for a six-club set.

Iron	Released	Steel, per club	Six clubs, 5-PW, steel	Graphite, per club	Six clubs, 5-PW, graphite
Callaway Quantum Max	Early 2026	A$215	A$1,290	A$239	A$1,434
TaylorMade Qi Max	January 2026	A$279	A$1,674	A$309	A$1,854
Ping G440	Early 2025	A$289	A$1,734	A$309	A$1,854
Titleist T350	Mid 2025	A$349	A$2,094	A$374	A$2,244

Add a seventh club and you add one more unit at the same rate: A$1,505 for the Callaway in steel, A$1,953 for the TaylorMade, A$2,023 for the Ping and A$2,443 for the Titleist. The gap between the cheapest and dearest six-club steel set is A$804, which is a fitting, a wedge and a few months of weekend green fees. A second Australian retailer showed the Quantum Max in steel at the same A$215 a club against a recommended price of A$269.99, so the Callaway figure is not a one-off promotion at a single shop.

Second-hand stock of 2025 and 2026 irons is still thin in Australia. The only one of the four we could find on a pre-owned shelf this month was the Titleist T350, at an Australian online retailer: a 5-iron to pitching wedge set in steel graded like new at A$1,600, a 4-iron to pitching wedge set in graphite at A$1,775, and a four-club 7-iron to pitching wedge set in graphite at A$1,295. For the Qi Max, Quantum Max and G440 we found no used set listed in October 2026, which is not surprising for irons that have been on sale for months rather than years.

One number to check before the rest: the 7-iron loft

All four sets put the 7-iron at 28 or 29 degrees, close to what a 6-iron carried twenty years ago. That is how modern game-improvement irons go further on the launch monitor. The catch sits at the other end of the bag. With pitching wedges around 42 to 44 degrees and most sand wedges at 54 to 56, there is a hole of ten degrees or more, and on Australian courses, where so many approaches into par 4s land inside 100 metres, that hole matters. Plan on at least one extra wedge, and price it in. At the per-club rates above, the matching gap wedge costs the same as any other iron in the set.

Callaway Quantum Max: the good-value one in Australia

What Callaway says. The Quantum Max replaces the Elyte, with pre-orders opening in January 2026 and shop stock following in February. The big change is in how the head is put together. Callaway casts the face and hosel as one piece and welds it to the body around the whole perimeter, further back from the face than before, and says this frees the sole to flex at impact. It calls the result a 360-degree undercut cavity and claims more ball speed and more consistency, particularly on strikes low on the face, which is where most of us miss. The face is designed with Callaway’s AI process, urethane microspheres inside the hollow head damp vibration, and the sole changes shape through the set from the long irons to the wedges. The listed 5-iron is 22 degrees and the pitching wedge 42; spec tables published by retailers give the 7-iron as 29 degrees. Callaway also makes a larger, more offset Quantum Max OS and a lightweight Quantum Max Fast in graphite.

The Australian listing. Steel heads were offered with KBS Max 80 shafts in regular or stiff, or Nippon NS Pro Modus 3 Tour 120 in stiff or extra stiff, all at the same A$215. Lofts ran from 4-iron through to an approach wedge, gap wedge and sand wedge, so you can build the whole bottom of the bag from the one model.

TaylorMade Qi Max: the refined favourite

What TaylorMade says. Released in January 2026 to replace the 2024 Qi, the Qi Max is pitched mainly on feel and sound. A bar inside the head now links the back bar to the top line, and the ECHO damping material has moved higher behind the face, which TaylorMade says cuts vibration and shortens the noise at impact. The face is designed to flex evenly so that it does not open on the way through and leak the ball right, and a Speed Pocket in the long irons helps strikes low on the face. Published lofts are 18.5 degrees for the 4-iron, 28 for the 7-iron and 42.5 for the pitching wedge. A Qi Max HL version has weaker lofts by about three degrees, a bigger head and more offset, for slower swing speeds.

The Australian listing. Steel came with the KBS Max 85 MT in regular or stiff at A$279 a club, and lofts from 4-iron through to approach, sand and lob wedges. Australian Golf Digest’s Hot List gave the Qi Max a gold rating and placed it among its top five irons for forgiveness for middle and high handicappers.

Ping G440: smaller than the G irons you remember

What Ping says. The G440 arrived in early 2025 and is still Ping’s game-improvement iron in 2026. Ping says the face is thinner and shallower than on earlier G irons, which makes it quicker off the face, and that the top line and blade length have been trimmed. Weight sits in the toe and hosel for stability. The standard 7-iron is 29 degrees with a 62-degree lie. Ping offers a Power Spec one degree stronger and a Retro Spec one degree weaker from the 4-iron to the 8-iron, and it has made the 4-, 5- and 6-irons slightly longer than on the G430 to space out the gaps at the top of the set. A High Launch version, with lighter shaft, grip and head weights, exists for slower swingers.

The Australian listing. Steel heads came with the AWT 3.0 in regular, stiff or extra stiff at A$289 a club; graphite with the Alta CB Blue in light, regular or stiff at A$309. Ping’s own wedge names (W, U, G and S) appear as loft options, so you can order a full matched run down to the sand wedge.

Titleist T350: the premium choice

What Titleist says. The current T350 came out in mid 2025 and replaced the 2023 model. It is a hollow iron with a forged face, a high-strength steel body, an L-shaped face insert of variable thickness, a polymer layer behind the face that Titleist calls Max Impact technology, and tungsten in the perimeter to position the centre of gravity. Titleist aims it at golfers of roughly 12 handicap and above. The 7-iron is about 29 degrees, and the obvious change from 2023 is the look: a thinner top line and a shape borrowed from the T250, the next model up.

The Australian listing. Steel heads were A$349 a club with AMT Tour White shafts in three flexes or Project X in 5.5, 6.0 and 6.5; graphite was A$374 with MMT AMC Red 65 or Tensei AV Red AM2 options. The T350 is the only one of the four with a real second-hand market here already, and the like-new 5-PW steel set mentioned above sat roughly A$500 below the per-club new price for the same six clubs.

What golfers are saying

An honest note first. Australian forum traffic on these four is light, and the Qi Max and Quantum Max have only had one southern winter in players’ bags. Most of what follows was read on the big English-language international forums, GolfWRX and the MyGolfSpy member forum, in Titleist’s official fitting thread for the 2025 T-Series, in customer reviews on an Australian retailer’s product pages, and in published reviews including Australian Golf Digest’s Hot List. Nobody is named and nothing has been counted.

The praise that keeps coming up:

• The TaylorMade finally sounds right. Owners moving from the 2024 Qi say the strike is more solid and less clicky. They also mention how easily it gets the ball up and a gentle draw on most swings.
• The Ping looks like a players’ iron at address. G440 owners keep returning to the compact head, slim top line and modest offset, and say ball speed holds up well when they miss the centre.
• The Titleist feels better than a forgiving iron should. Golfers who tried the T350 at fitting days often call it the nicest-feeling game-improvement iron they have hit, and owners of the 2023 version mention cleaner contact with the turf.

The complaints that keep coming up:

• The Callaway is firm and loud. Players who put the Quantum Max next to forged irons describe a hard, noisy strike, and some feel it is only a small step on from the Elyte.
• The Qi Max is an update, not a new iron. The usual reservation is that it polishes the Qi rather than replacing it, with the offset doing much of the work on the draw. Several voices tell recent Qi owners to keep what they have.
• The Ping’s long irons are noisier and flatter. Some describe a crisp click on good strikes that turns dull on misses, and a lower flight than they expected from a G iron, with long irons that run out after landing.
• The Titleist costs a lot. Price is the criticism heard most often, and in Australia the per-club gap makes it sharper. Toe strikes that drift further than expected come next.

Where Australians can try and buy these irons

The national golf chains stock all four brands and run fitting bays with launch monitors in most capital cities and many regional centres. Book a fitting rather than walking in on a Saturday morning, ask to hit every head with the same shaft, and ask to see the gap between your pitching wedge and your next wedge, not only the 7-iron number. One thing caught our eye on the product pages this month: all four sets were marked as custom orders, with a stated lead time of at least 20 business days. Order in mid October and you are unlikely to have the clubs much before the middle of November. Left-handers are covered for all four models, which is not always the case in this category.

Your club’s pro shop is worth a call before you go anywhere else. PGA professionals in Australia can usually order from all four brands, many host manufacturer demo days in spring, and a pro who watches you play will see things a launch monitor in a bay does not, such as the lie you play most of your approaches from. Some pros also have demo or end-of-line stock to move at this time of year.

Independent fitters and club builders can order any of these heads with your chosen loft, lie and length. A lie-angle check is the single most useful thing a fitter does for iron accuracy, and it is worth doing even if you decide not to buy.

Pre-owned specialists online grade each set and photograph the real clubs or state when they do not. Check the grooves, the shaft labels against the description, the club lengths and the return policy. Buying from a business, new or used, brings the consumer guarantees of Australian Consumer Law; buying privately through the classifieds does not, so inspect the clubs in person and confirm the serial numbers.

A practical way to choose this spring

If your current irons are a game-improvement set from 2023 or 2024, the published differences are modest: a better sound for TaylorMade, a new construction for Callaway, a smaller head for Ping, a cleaner shape for Titleist. A fitting and a lie adjustment on what you already own may help more than a new set, and they cost a fraction of A$1,290.

If your irons are older, all four will feel easier to hit. Test them in one session with the same shaft, judge them on how far left and right your misses finish, in metres, rather than on your single best carry, and count how many wedges you need below the pitching wedge. Then price the exact set you would carry, club by club, because in Australia that is how you pay for it. On those numbers the Callaway starts with a head start of several hundred dollars; whether the feel and sound are worth closing that gap is up to you.

How this page was put together

This is a product overview and a summary of public opinion, not a test; nobody at Panxis Golf hit these irons. Specifications and release details come from the manufacturers’ published material as reported at launch: TaylorMade’s Qi Max announcement as reported by Golfalot and GolfWRX, Callaway’s Quantum announcement as summarised by Cal Golf News, Ping’s G440 specification table and announcement, and Titleist’s T350 material as reported by Golfalot. The 7-iron lofts of the Callaway and the Titleist come from retailer spec tables and reviews rather than a manufacturer sheet. Shaft options are those shown on the Australian product pages.

Prices were read in October 2026, in Australian dollars including GST. Per-club prices for all four irons come from Drummond Golf’s product pages; the six- and seven-club totals were calculated by the Australia desk by multiplying the per-club price, and the final price of a fitted set may differ. The second listing of the Quantum Max at A$215 against a recommended A$269.99, and the pre-owned Titleist T350 sets, come from GolfBox, an Australian online retailer. Prices change often, and second-hand prices depend on each set’s condition, make-up and shaft.

What golfers say was read on the GolfWRX forums, the MyGolfSpy member forum, Titleist’s official review thread for the 2025 T-Series irons, customer reviews on Drummond Golf’s product pages, and published reviews from Australian Golf Digest (Hot List), Plugged In Golf, Golfalot and Today’s Golfer. Nobody is quoted by name, nothing is counted, and no impression is presented as a statistic. There are no commercial links here, no affiliate arrangement and no commission of any kind. If content on this site is ever paid for by a brand, it will carry an advertising notice at the top of the page, before the first line.