Hit the driver?

Strub refused to hit his driver again last weekend with only one exception. He almost made it to the ladies tees. I have a slight length advantage over him, and he makes the problem 100x worse by hitting 5 iron off the tee. His thinking was that he would put it in the fairway every time, and I would lose enough drives to make it worthwhile. Unfortunately, neither of those things is true. In fact, he is still losing more drives than me. He said the only way he could win this week was to be able to pull the driver out of the bag with confidence. Whether he put in the time at the range this week is yet to be seen.