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Ratfarts!

I have a couple of additions.

Three wheel pushcarts. When my knees were still semi functional, I used one and thought it was the greatest thing since sliced bread. No pun intended.

Shirts with moisture wicking material. Whoda thunk I'd ever wear polyester again! They work though.

Golf bling. Bracelets, neclaces etc. I tried a bracelet for tendinitis in an elbow and I've worn one ever since. Can't gaurantee it'll work for anyone else, but it did for me.

Good Luck!
Ric at Joes

Golf Channel. The exposure it has brought to players and courses. I remember when all you could watch would be holes 14-18 on Saturday and Sunday. Now we have Wednesday programming from the range at each tourney. Then there is instructional, Big Brwak, etc. GC had had a profound impact on he game since it launched in '95.
-Stomper

Titanium. MOI and other technological concerns. 25 years ago we had metal woods that were the same size as wooden woods.

Design minimalism? I'm not sure what that is but things were pretty minimal 25 years ago. I traded in my metal spiked golf shoes for some soft spiked sneaker like golf shoes. I just traded them in for some spikeless TRUE Tour shoes. I like the spikeless shoes but I've always been a fan of playing in sneakers.

Forged blades are back in style. At least I see quite a few on tour and at the local GolfGalaxy.

The face balanced putter and belly putter are very popular these days. I tried one out but by swinging gate stroke does better with my original Anser or 8802.

We had hybrid clubs years ago but they sucked. Today's are great. I smack the crap out of my 3h and never have to worry about that fat smother duck hook

Most tour pros have always played blades because of the workability factor, even if we thought otherwise because of ads. They will, of course ruin most golfers games.

I've worn spikeless for about ten years. I bought a few pair in the mid-late 90s on sale, so I'm good for a while. In fact, I have a pair of spikeless sandals I wear on summer trips to LV that constitute my entire footwear inventory for the trip.

Good Luck!
Ric at Joes

We need to differentiate between blades and forgings. Blades can be cast, forgings can have a huge player-assisting cavity back and perimeter weighting. I play a forged club, for instance, and it ain't no blade. One reason we're seeing more blade-like clubs (Ping's iteration, now the S56, for instance, or Mizunos MP 59 -- one cast, one forged) is because of the multi-material phenomenon, putting discrete slugs of dense metal to create far more forgiveness in a club that might look like it has minimal game improvement built into it. And we're seeing more forged "hacker" irons because of the same type of advances in material usage, and people finally figuring out that it's about design, not how the hard metal was made hard. There certainly are a lot of studs out there still playing muscleback forgings, for sure.

stomper, I LIKE the GC addition!