I love the hybrid, carry from 3-5 in bag depending on where or when, also only carry a 16 degree 4 F-wood, no 3, Sometimes carry a 2 to 6 hybrid sometimes only a couple or three. Just depends on the course and how I am hitting. I have no problems hitting a hybrid and about 99.9% of the time would rather hit them vs. a iron but this is just me--others will feel another way. You have to be comfortable with what you are going to hit, if you have doubts in your mind before you hit the club you should not pull it from your bag--you are dead in the water before you take that swing in almost all cases. I would make sure I gave myself a good amount of time to get used to the hybrid before I made the choice, if you can hit a number of them, get your avg distance with each down to a very close number and make the choice based on this and fit it in to your mix of clubs based on distance and not a number on the head.