Now that the nastiness and name-calling appear to be done here's a personal example of carrying 2 drivers, the R9 8.5 Master and the Ping Rapture V2, from the white tees at BPB.
But first let me say I'm one who made the Master tier way, way too soon. I dipped my toe below the old threshold just once and got snapped up by the monster. Like a wildebeest crossing a Kenyan river. One compensating factor of being a misplaced Pro level player is I get to use the R9 Master clubs.
Two weeks ago, I replaced my Rapture 3H with the R9 8.5 and been learning to hit it during mult-player games and weekly unlimited play games. Actually still haven't got used to the fast meter speed, but learning to compensate while aiming for my tendency to push the drives with the R9. (I suffer from OGR, or Old Guy Reflexes.)
I played this month's Internation Open on BPB from the whites. Below is my scorecard. Enhanced to show which driver I used on each hole. Its a perfect example of the risk vs reward mentioned by Faterson, Snaike and others. My strategy is to use the Ping Rapture drivers on holes where its easy to drive the R9 through a dogleg (#2) and wherever the wind is favorable and I can get 'close enough' with the Ping to have a good chance at birdie.
During the round I missed 4 of 14 fairways. I hit the fairway 8 of 11 times with the R9 and all 3 of my birdies came with the R9. I hit the Rapture driver 3 times and missed one fairway. See OGR. Fortunately I was able to scramble home in par when I missed the fairways but any chance of me making birdie from the rough or bunker was slim. Playing from the rough is something I need to work on if I hope to carry only the R9. By the way, taking out the 3H really puts a big hole in the recovery shot game. I likely hit R9 too much. Like on #6, no need to hit it because the Rapture will put me 130 yds out on top of the hill and its an easy shot from there. But it just too much damn fun to blow the R9 down the hill and have a little wedge!! Except this time the OGR kicked in and I blew it right into the deep stuff and hacked it out and down the hill... I think I need to shoot a round with HBThree to get the hang of this 2 driver thing.
Faterson, I did birdie #7 into the wind with the R9 8.5 off the tee, close to the trees, and then took a little off an R9 3W to get it close for a bird. See the replay here
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