A New York Times story confirms what most of us already know -- despite all the new high-tech golf equipment, most of us still stink at the game.

The National Golf Foundation reports that Americans spent $4.7 billion in 2002 on new golf equipment, but the average score for the average golfer still stands at around 100, as it has for decades.

The more serious recreational golfers who turn their scores into the USGA have handicaps that have dropped just 0.5 strokes since 2000.

So all the big-head drivers, space-age materials and all those press releases from companies crowing about their latest innovations that will add mega-yards and incredible accuracy are just bogus. You could go out and shoot just as well with those old persimmon drivers in the back of your garage you haven't used for years.

What a rip-off.

Checkout: http://www.travelgolf.com/blogs/tim.mcdonald/2005/05/24/callaway_titleist_ping_stop_the_bragging