TaylorMade isn’t the only player in the mini driver game anymore but nobody’s having more fun with it. Since the forgettable AeroBurner mini era (blessedly short-lived), TaylorMade has leaned into its mini driver platform to reimagine what amounts to a greatest hits album for driver design. In the process, the company has tapped directly into the nostalgia vein of gearheads everywhere.
Let’s sprint through the timeline:
The Original One mini (2019) paid tribute to the Pittsburgh Persimmon, the club TaylorMade bills as the first metalwood. A throwback in name and shape, it marked the brand’s first real effort to bring a mini to the modern era.The 300 mini driver (2021) drew inspiration from the classic 300 Series, a line that was ahead of its time in segmenting products by player type. While those R&D buckets weren’t nearly as data-backed as today’s models, the 300 Series introduced the idea of fitting by profile – a groundbreaking idea at the time.
The BRNR mini driver (2023, 2024) took the nostalgia dial and turned it up to 11. With copper accents, a reversible headcover and unmistakable nods to the late-‘90s Burner drivers, it was the reboot nobody knew they wanted. All that was missing was the Bubble Shaft.
Given the history, it’s fitting that the latest entry, the R7 Quad mini, reaches back to one of the most iconic drivers of the 2000s.
Reimagining a classic
While reasonable people can disagree over whether the R7 Quad is TaylorMade’s most iconic driver ever, it’s inarguably part of the pantheon. So it tracks that golfers will be drawn to TaylorMade’s latest mini, which blends signature elements of the original R7 Quad design with modern TaylorMade tech, all wrapped in a compact, maybe even cute, 305cc package.
The original R7 Quad was a milestone. It marked TaylorMade’s first foray into movable weights. The R7 Quad mini keeps that legacy alive with a four-weight system: two 13-gram weights and two four-gram weights. This allows for six unique trajectory settings. If you can’t quite wrap your head around that, see below.









