Hot Irons: Why You Need to Try Them!

Longer distance balls and hi-tech drivers are now being joined by the iron.

Several companies have been making multi material irons that produce some insane distance gains!

There are a few key factors that go into these clubs abilities to gain you more distance, here they are:

1. Hotter Face: The faces of these new irons are often a separate piece of harder metal than your typical steel used in irons. They are welded separately to the body of the club which not only makes for a hotter "spring effect" on the irons, but they are generally hotter over almost the entire club face, due to the harder metal, it is not needed to have anything behind the face, making them similar to how a modern driver is made.

2. Perimeter Weighting: The space and weight saved behind the club head has been moved around the perimeter of the head. Not unlike other cavity back irons, this will cause for them be a little more stable on off center hits.

3. Loft/Sole Weight: These two go hand in hand as one could not work well without the other. Given the hotter face and more forgiving head, the real way these babies hit the ball so damn far is that the clubs are often 4* stronger than a typical set of irons. That is basically gaining you one extra club right there, so your PW in the new set will go as far as the 9-iron in your old set. But wait? Wont you hit the ball lower with these clubs, severely hampering your longer irons? NO! And the reason is that the soles on these clubs contain most of the weight in the club! Tungsten is positioned on the heel and toe areas of the sole of the irons to help lower the center of gravity. This will give you the same launch angle with your new "jacked up" irons as your old. Trust me, I spent some time on the range and in a indoor simulator and they are almost identical in ball flight, just about 16 yards further per club!

4. Shaft: Most shafts in these new irons are slightly lighter than your typical steel shafts. Your standard steel shaft comes in around 120 grams while the shafts in these multi-metal heads are around 95 grams, which will also increase your club head speed.

Those are the main reasons behind it folks, I was very surprised when I got the chance to hit some of these irons, its an instant 16 yard per iron gain for me and although they are not the prettiest things to look at, you cant argue with the results! Give a set a try, for most golfers, I guarantee you wont leave the range or shop without a set!