How to Hit Irons Pure: Master Your Iron Shots with These 8 Simple Tips

The pure iron shot is one of the best feelings in golf. When you strike an iron perfectly, it often feels “buttery.” The ball compresses, jumps off the clubface, and lands exactly where you want it on the green.

Do you want to experience this more often?

With the right skills for hitting pure iron shots, you can get that buttery pure iron feel on a regular basis. Let’s take a look at how to do it.

Hitting Pure Iron Shots (Key Takeaways)

Hitting pure iron shots goes beyond hitting straight iron shots. These shots are hit directly in the center of the face, with a square face and plenty of club head speed.

Here are some things you will need to know to hit a pure iron shot.

• You must strike the ball on your downswing to achieve proper ball flight and distance from your iron shot.
• To hit a pure iron shot, the lead wrist must be slightly flexed at impact.
• Consistency in setup leads to better balance and stability, improving iron strike consistency.
• Utilizing ground forces by pushing off the ground during the swing increases power and improves the centeredness of the strike.
• Wear your HackMotion while practicing your irons; it’s like having a coach on your wrist, helping you know when you’re in the right position or when adjustments are needed.

8 Proven Tips for Hitting Pure Iron Shots Every Time

1. Nail Down the Ball Position

Ball position is one of the more overlooked areas of the setup for amateur players. The ball position has a big impact on your strike position.

• If your irons are too far back in your stance, when you get to the ball, you may hit behind it, and the clubface could be open as it still didn’t have time to close.
• If your irons are too far forward in your stance, you may hit them thin, lose power, or even hook them to the left.

The adjustments are minor, but they matter. Once you find that perfect ball position just work on getting consistent with it.

2. Perfect Wrist Movement Before You Get to the Ball

To hit a pure iron shot, you must have your lead wrist flexed or bowed. If the lead wrist is flat, you will still hit a good shot, although it often lacks power and consistency.

If you have a cupped wrist at impact, expect shots to the right, too much loft, and a significant loss in power.

The solution?

Fix your wrist position before you get to the ball using the HackMotion.

There are two things to do here.

1. Don’t increase the extension of your lead wrist when swinging from setup to the top of the backswing.
2. On the downswing, decrease any extension you have in the lead wrist as soon as possible; the sooner the clubface gets to square, the easier it is to hit the ball with ball speed and precision.

Wearing the HackMotion is like having your coach on your wrist.

Look for patterns like less extension at impact than you had at the top of your backswing.

Most amateur players find the mistake is in waiting too long to square the clubface.

3. Create Some Lag in Your Swing

Lag in your golf swing can help you get effortless power. Creating lag with the irons can be done in several different ways, but the key is to ensure your fundamentals are first in place. Creating lag before you know how to square a clubface won’t do much for you.

One of the best ways to create lag in your golf swing is to take a long towel and take some practice swings with this towel. Grip the top of the towel as you would normally grip a golf club.

However, you will let your bottom hand separate from the top hand by at least about a foot or so.

Take a backswing with the towel, holding it tight between your hands as you swing back. At the top of the backswing, you let go with your trail hand and use the lead hand to swing the towel through impact.

The towel will give you that feeling of lag and help ensure you can repeat it with a real club. Do the towel drills at least a few times a day to see real improvement. Many amateur golfers explain the feeling of lag as one in which the club feels as though it lags behind while the body rotates through the ball.