Found a 2001 Golfsmith Catalog...

[ragontona]

... and the most interesting thing to me was the driver pricing. Right now, we're in a $299 for most drivers, $399 for the expensive stuff kinda mode (not counting Taylor Made's TP series).

But five years ago, check these prices:

Callaway ERC II Forged Titanium Driver - $499.99
Callaway Hawk Eye VFT Titanium Driver - $399.99
Callaway Big Bertha Steelhead Plus Driver - $249.99
Taylor Made 320/360 Ti Driver - $399.99
Taylor Made 320/360 Ti Driver (with exotic ProForce or Graffaloy ProLite) - $439.99
Orlimar hipTi Titanium Driver - $399.99

Other drivers (Titleist, Ping, etc) did not list the price, but I imagine they were probably along the $499.99 line.

Now I don't feel so bad dropping $299 for my r7 460

[DDBowdoin]

I can't believe the prices for those clubs... it's really weird for me because I started playing golf spring of 2004 (my 1st year of college) and I probably paid less for my current sticks and the quality and technology is obviously much better

[Puttin4Bird]

Wow, that is crazy. It's good though, but just interesting to see. I'm sure you can pick up any of those drivers now for around $50 somewhere.

I work in the IT field and remember that computers used to be the same way, you had to pay $3k for an old 486 mhz piece of crap with 16mb of RAM. I just got a new Dell for $800 that is light years beyond that!

Technology: making things bigger, faster and better for less money!!!

[kiwidave]

I didn't start playing till late 2003 and didn't buy any brand new clubs for a while after I started. i have heard story's thought that the Original Big Bertha's we hideously expensive back when they first came out though

[cheffdiddy_45]

Dropping 400 bones for my new HiBore makes me feel a bit better now. Besides in 2001, i was borderline in college, and i do mean borderline and spent to much many on beer, cable tv and pizza