REVIEW – I like to golf. I enjoy traveling. But…golfing when traveling? A pain. Why? Either I am adding to my travel baggage, schlepping a heavy golf bag (plus a travel case) through an airport, or paying through the nose to rent questionable clubs at the golf course. Neither one is a great option. Enter Q Club Gen 2 from Q Golf. This adjustable and collapsible golf club looks to end travel golf woes by letting you travel with an entire golf bag right in your normal luggage. Let’s give the Q Club Gen 2 a swing and see if it is up to par.
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Price: $299
Where to buy: Q Golf
What is it?
The Q Club Gen 2 is a golf club with an adjustable head. The loft of the head can be adjusted to eight different positions, changing the loft (angle) of the head. This allows one club to replace everything from a putter to driving iron, all the way to a lob wedge. The shaft separates into two pieces so the club can be packed into a suitcase for travel.
What’s included?
- Q Gen 2 adjustable club – two pieces with DuraLock threaded connector
- Carry bag
- Note: No instructions or documentation of any kind were included, nor was a protective head cover – the Q Golf website offers a ton of information about the club but most of the information was about the older Gen 1 product
Tech specs
Head weight: 251g
Head material: 17/4 Stainless Steel
Head adjustments: 4° Putter; 12° Stinger (driving iron); 20° Hybrid; 28° 6 Iron; 36° 8 Iron; 44° Pitching Wedge; 52° Sand Iron; 60° Lob Wedge
Shaft mechanism: DuraLock – Grade 5 Titanium
Shaft style: 38” TORU Shaft from Q (Regular Flex)
Use cases: Suitable for Men and Women 5’3 – 6’6” (1.6 – 2.0m)
Grip: Extra-long 14” grip
Length when separated: approximately 20.5″
Carry Bag: CO Polyester Water Resistant Bag
Design and features
The Q Club Gen 2 looks like, well, a golf club.
It is around the same length of a typical six or seven iron. The head has backspin-inducing grooves etched into the face.
The weight is centered low on the back and bottom of the club.
OK, so, it is pretty much like any other golf club, right? If you look at the shaft, you see the first major difference.
That is a disassembly joint. Twisting the club’s ends to the right (left for a lefty club) unscrews the joint. This splits the club into two pieces, making it easy to pack in luggage.
The second difference is in the head itself.
The scale on the right in the photo above shows the eight different settings for the club head’s loft, from putter to lob wedge.
To change lofts, squeeze the head toward the shaft, twist the head, aligning the mark on the shaft with the desired mark on the head, and release.
Here’s a look at all the lofts (as close as I could hold the club in the same spot for each photo).
Finally, Q Club comes with an extra-long grip with special markings. Note the three white marks on the grip.
They are alignment marks for your grip. Regular clubs are all different lengths. The Q Club compensates for that with different grip positions. The upper marking is for the stinger and hybrid settings. The middle mark helps align your hands for fairway shots. The bottom mark is for short wedges and putting.
Assembly, Installation, Setup
The Q Club Gen 2 ships in two pieces, just like you would travel with it. To use the club, screw together the two pieces. There is a gotcha, though. The threading for a right-handed club is reversed. No righty-thighty, lefty-loosey here. Why? With standard threading, every time you smack the ball, you would loosen the joint. By using reverse threading, every time you take a stroke, you are actually tightening and strengthening the joint. Smart design. Of course, that will be reversed for lefties.
Performance
I decided to start slowly with the club. My wife organizes a weekly neighborhood nine-and-dine where we play nine holes of golf, and then all go out for a meal.
We play a scramble. In a scramble, everyone tees off. You choose the best shot, and everyone hits their second shot from there. You continue doing this until someone putts the ball into the hole. We played on an executive course, meaning that most of the holes were par 3s. This particular course had two par 4s. The layout of the course and length of the holes let me hit the club as a stinger, hybrid, 6-iron, 8-iron, pitching wedge, and putter – all of the settings other than sand and lob wedges.
I should preface this review with the fact that I just returned from a three-month trip, during which I only hit a golf club about 20 times. The takeaway here is that my already less-than-stellar swing was a little rusty. The first thing I noticed is that this club is heavy – heavier than my standard Taylormade clubs. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but it did feel different. Given that I hadn’t sung a club in a while, I figured that I needed to dial in a longer club as my swing would be a little weak. I dialed in the 8-iron for a 110-yard shot. Normally, I would use a slightly weak 9-iron. To my surprise, while the impact didn’t feel like my regular clubs, the ball flew true and straight, and I put the ball on the green. Wow. Someone else hit theirs closer, so we used their shot. My first putt was off a bit. For one, I had no feel for the speed of the greens. Second, the head design of the Q Club Gen 2 is radically different than my fang-style putter. The putt rolled true – the experience was just different, not bad.
As the round progressed, I got more comfortable with the Q Club Gen 2. I did find that it seemed to hit roughly a club shorter than my regular clubs. If I would normally choose a 7-iron, I needed the 6-iron setting on the Q Club. The big surprise came on the second par 4 when I hit the stinger. I generally hit my driver 210 yards, plus or minus. I hit the stinger about 185 yards, just to the right of center in the fairway. I didn’t expect it to hit that well. I mentioned the second par 4. What about the first one? I stood up on my downswing and shanked the ball. Yeah, that’s my swing’s fault, not the club’s. That’s why I tried it in a scramble. Later in the round, I birdied par 3 all on my own, dropping a tee shot about six feet behind the hole and sinking the putt. Not bad for a guy using a single club.
One of my go-to shots is a bump-and-run. I hit this shot when I am close to the green. I typically use a 9-iron and hit with essentially a putting stroke, popping the ball up and letting it roll out on the green. I tried that using the 8-iron setting without any luck. The heavy, bottom-weighted design of the Q Club didn’t work well for me. But I only tried it a couple of times on the course. Overall, while I didn’t hit the Q Club as long or as well as my standard clubs, I did hit it well enough that I felt comfortable with it.
The next test came a couple of days later. I played a full 18-hole round of golf on a standard championship course. Over the entire round, I hit the club on all of its loft settings. Unfortunately, I struggled a bit, but again, that was on me, not on the club. My bone-on-bone knee pain was acting up, I hadn’t played a round in over three months, the temperature was in the low 50s, winds were gusting 30MPH – I’ve got a million excuses. The Q Club Gen 2 isn’t one of them. As long as I kept my head down and kept my swing moving through the ball, I hit the ball extremely well. Driving with the Q Club is surprising. The low loft of the stinger keeps the ball lower, reducing the effect of the wind on the ball. In addition, the low trajectory results in longer roll-outs. I was hitting the ball close to 200 yards with it. For long shots off the fairway, both the stinger and hybrid settings resulted in long and straight shots. For me, the stinger netted my 170+ yards, and the hybrid got me 150-160 yards. The 6-iron setting got me around 140-145 yards, or about a club shorter than the 160 I get from a 6-iron with my regular clubs.
I still struggled with the bump-and-run shots, but the more I hit it with the Q Club, the better I got at it, nearly holing out an 8-iron bump-and-run on the 18th hole. I only hit into a sand trap twice. The first time was a fairway bunker. The 6-iron setting allowed me to pick the ball cleanly from the sand and send it down the fairway. Nice. The second was a greenside bunker, and that called for a higher loft shot. I got out easily – a little too easily. I set the Q Club to the sand wedge setting and took my swing. I expected to have to put a little more behind it and made a strong swing through. I caught the ball a little too cleanly, popping the ball up and flying over the green. The lob wedge setting fits better with my swing for those short shots. I was happy with the sand wedge shot, even if it was long. That gives me options for longer sand shots.
I initially struggled with the lob wedge setting around the green, mainly because I didn’t expect the club to pop the ball up so well. I wound up short of the green because the Q Club lofted the ball up with good backspin, surprising me. As I play more with it, I will take that into account. The heavy bottom weight of the club got under the ball, cleanly lifting it high and straight. Nice.
Even with the adjustable head and twist-apart shaft, the Q Club feels solid – just like a standard club. No wiggle, no jiggle, no slop. It is made very well out of top-quality materials.
We live in the largest golfing community in the world, with nearly 800 holes of golf as of this writing. We have several pitch-and-putt courses with 40 to 110-yard holes. You typically carry three or four clubs, and they can be hard to juggle. Or, you can rent a small day bag and hand cart. Or…you can just carry the Q Club. This is the perfect club for a pitch-and-putt course.
I recently came home from a long cruise. Our cruise director was a big golfer. He got in several rounds on our 90-day journey, each time shelling out $30 – $50 to rent clubs at the courses. I showed him the Q Club, and he immediately ordered one. For him, to have his own set of clubs all within one easy-to-pack club is huge. Plus, after six to eight rounds, Q Club will have paid for itself as he won’t be renting clubs. He is home between contracts as I write this and has been playing with his new Q Club Gen 2. His initial feedback has been overwhelmingly positive and he said that Q Club Gen 2 will be traveling with him on his next cruise contract. He is pretty serious about golf, so that is high praise, indeed.
One thing to note is that the Q Club Gen 2 is not currently approved by the USGA for tournament use. Seriously, though, what golfer playing in a tournament would want to use what is essentially a compromise club for a tournament? Q Club isn’t trying to be a professional golfer’s club. It is trying to be a club for golfers in specific situations. Traveling and have an opportunity for a round? Perfect! A quick round of golf where you want to walk and not drag a hand cart? Perfect? Playing a pitch-and-putt short course? Perfect! Work in an office and have an occasional opportunity to sneak out at lunch for a quick round? Perfect! Playing a pitch-and-putt course and don’t want to juggle clubs? Perfect!
Final thoughts
Is this a perfect golf club for all situations? No. Will it replace your golf bag? Also, no. But it isn’t intended to do that. What it is intended to do is allow golfers who travel to play a round of golf without having to tote a big golf bag or rent unfamiliar clubs. If you work near a golf course and can grab a quick nine holes over a long lunch break, putting the Q Club in your briefcase would help make this a reality. For what it is designed to be, Q Club Gen 2 is a stellar product. It is made exceptionally well, and I have no fear of this club breaking down, even with heavy use. It is rock-solid and hits well in all eight of its loft settings, producing quality shots from a quality swing.
If any of the scenarios I mentioned above fit you, then the Q Club Gen 2 is absolutely worth a swing. I am excited about using the Q Club on a pitch-and-putt course and the potential for travel golf without the hassle. As of this writing, they were including a spiffy Q Golf ball cap with every club purchase. I have no idea how long that promotion will last.
What I like about Q Golf Q Club Gen 2
- It does achieve the promise of replacing an entire bag of clubs with a single club
- The construction is top-notch
- It hits well, assuming that you give it a decent swing
- It packs easily when broken down
What needs to be improved?
- It can be hard to break down because the shaft join tightens so well with every swing
- It is not currently tournament-legal, but most people don’t play sanctioned tournaments and favor casual play
- It does take a little time to get used to, but that would be true of any new club or clubs
- Based on my experience with the Q Club and the experience of a friend who purchased a Q Club Gen 2, it hits about 1 to 1.5 clubs shorter than a traditional club with the same loft
- The Q Golf community website needs an update with Gen 2 information and videos – everything up there is specific to the Gen 1 club with different loft settings
Price: $299.00
Where to buy: Q Golf
Source: The sample of this product was provided for free by Q Golf. Q Golf did not have a final say on the review and did not preview the review before it was published.
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