⛳ $499.99 for a new driver. In 1998.

[TerryP]

Taylor Made's latest driver, the Stealth Plus, retails for $599.99 through their website. (It's a GREAT looking club, Smoke Red and Black.)

 

[BamaFan334]

Taylor Made's latest driver, the Stealth Plus, retails for $599.99 through their website. (It's a GREAT looking club, Smoke Red and Black.)

I used to have one of those. A hand me down from my dad of course, but MAN was that the club to have back then.

 

[TerryP]

I used to have one of those. A hand me down from my dad of course, but MAN was that the club to have back then.

Long story short, in '97(?) I managed to get a hell of a deal on a set of the Burner Bubbles (1st edition of the Bubble line metal woods and a set of irons. I played with those until the Shula era ('03 or '04) when I went with Mizuno irons and custom built metal woods. A learned a lot playing with those Taylor Made clubs. A large part of why I went with the T-Zoid line were the things I didn't like about the TM irons.

I remember adding a matched gap wedge to that set. It was $119 at the time. I noticed TM's GW's start at $119 now. The Anser 2 I picked up was the same price. Their Sigma 2 runs $199 now.

A bigger price increase on specialty clubs, or add-on's if you will.

 

[RollllTide!]

Have a set of Ping custom fitted. Could put backspin with the wedge all day long. Am I showing my age?

 

[SoCalPatrick]

Have a set of Ping custom fitted. Could put backspin with the wedge all day long. Am I showing my age?

No. Not really. You can find a GOLFTEC in a lot of places around the world. It's not cheap with Ping. Ha, nothing is. $100 bucks or more. There's probably a place like it in Mobile.

 

[SoCalPatrick]

A driver is one of the few goods we haven't seen inflation? I'd never thought about this.