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Originally Posted by A-Rod's Cousin
No - I'm saying I hope he carries 14 clubs and not 13. I don't care wtf he replaces it with but leaving it at home without replacing it would be dumb.
Also, when people start a post with "In honor of <your name>" they are trying to prod you into replying. So there.
You really don't see how playing with 13 clubs might be better than playing with 14 clubs including one that will only cost you strokes the vast majority of the time that you use it?
Think about it like this- if you only owned 14 golf clubs, but one of them is a magic golf club that produces an OB shot every time it touches the ball, should you still carry it?
I assume your answer is "No, of course not". So then you must admit that if a club does nothing but cost you strokes every time you hit it that it is better to simply not carry it, right? Ok, then, now that you have admitted that there does exist a scenario where it is a better idea to simply leave a club out of your bag and play with 13- what is the break even point of success/failure rate with a club at which you should simply not carry the club anymore? Surely it doesn't have to be the hypothetical magic club that produces an OB shot 100% of the time, so there has to be some point at which you decide "this club hurts me more than it helps me".
That said, obviously there is no real difference between only carrying 13 clubs and carrying 14 clubs with the understanding that you will never under any circumstances hit 1 of those clubs. In that case, however, why would you carry around an extra club that you don't intend to ever hit?