In the two years since Stephen Gallacher captured a first Dubai Desert Classic title the Scot has only ever used two drivers.
During the intervening period Gallacher's driven the ball superbly to retain his Dubai Desert Classic title, contest an inaugural Masters and also represent Europe for a first time in a Ryder Cup.
Now on the occasion of the 26th Dubai Desert Classic, when Gallacher could join just five players on the European Tour to have ever won three tournaments in succession, he is considering putting a new driver in his bag.
And this is despite comfortably out-driving World No. 1 Rory McIlroy on many occasions during last Sunday's Abu Dhabi Invitational at Yas Links.
"I know this is an important week, as is any week out here on Tour, given what I can accomplish but I don't have any reservations putting a new driver in the bag," he said.
"I had a big session using TrakMan with the new TaylorMade driver here at The Emirates Club on Monday hitting about 60 balls, and the numbers I got back were very positive," he said.
"I gave them to my coach, Alan (McCloskey) so he then phoned me back and said the numbers were brilliant".
Gallacher debuted the driver in competition for a first time in yesterday's eight-man Challenge while he'll take it into today's (WED) Pro-Am.
"It's nothing new, because the last two years I've won here, I've won with two different drivers, so it's not going to faze me putting the newer driver in the bag because the numbers are saying it's a bit faster and the ball is going a bit further.
"In the modern game, the further you hit it, the shorter the iron, and the better the percentage you have of making birdies."
While Gallacher is confident of his new driver he played down thoughts of joining the rare club of Nick Faldo, Ian Woosnam, Colin Montgomerie, Ernie Els and Tiger Woods to have won the same European Tour event three years running.
"I don't really think about record to be honest," he said.
"I've got expectations what I want this week but I'm not going to put myself under any more pressure. If it happens, brilliant. If it doesn't I will be happy I have given 100 per cent as I do every week.
"You come to every tournament and all you can do is prepare properly to win. That's what you do every week, and it doesn't happen very often. That's the kind of nature of the game.
"So when you start to get outside of that and you try too hard and start to pick targets and look at records, you can let yourself get distracted. It's a simple game of just trying to get out there and shoot as low as you can.
"My goal every week is to post as many birdies as I can, really."
However Gallacher needs no reminding of his success in the Middle East given a full size replica of the Dubai Desert Classic 'coffee pot' trophy proudly staring him in a corner of his Bathgate abode.
"I see that trophy every morning when I get up," he said.
"But then it's just there because I cannot put it anywhere given it is very heavy and has to sit on the ground though we are doing up one of the rooms, so the trophy is going in one of the rooms eventually.
"I've also got some nice photographs from my two wins."
Why are you making commenting on The Herald only available to subscribers?
It should have been a safe space for informed debate, somewhere for readers to discuss issues around the biggest stories of the day, but all too often the below the line comments on most websites have become bogged down by off-topic discussions and abuse.
heraldscotland.com is tackling this problem by allowing only subscribers to comment.
We are doing this to improve the experience for our loyal readers and we believe it will reduce the ability of trolls and troublemakers, who occasionally find their way onto our site, to abuse our journalists and readers. We also hope it will help the comments section fulfil its promise as a part of Scotland's conversation with itself.
We are lucky at The Herald. We are read by an informed, educated readership who can add their knowledge and insights to our stories.
That is invaluable.
We are making the subscriber-only change to support our valued readers, who tell us they don't want the site cluttered up with irrelevant comments, untruths and abuse.
In the past, the journalist’s job was to collect and distribute information to the audience. Technology means that readers can shape a discussion. We look forward to hearing from you on heraldscotland.com
Comments & Moderation
Readers’ comments: You are personally liable for the content of any comments you upload to this website, so please act responsibly. We do not pre-moderate or monitor readers’ comments appearing on our websites, but we do post-moderate in response to complaints we receive or otherwise when a potential problem comes to our attention. You can make a complaint by using the ‘report this post’ link . We may then apply our discretion under the user terms to amend or delete comments.
Post moderation is undertaken full-time 9am-6pm on weekdays, and on a part-time basis outwith those hours.
Read the rules hereComments are closed on this article