No. How expensive golf is, is determined by how much it costs if you want to play golf, not how much its possible to spend to play golf.
Golfers are rich. They are happy to hand over their money to buy branding. They have the money to concede to the brainwashing of the advertisers. Drivers is a funny one admittedly. They are all the same, but a lot a men (not women) keep parting with cash ('investing' they call it to hide the fact that it will yield them nothing other than soothe their consumerism) for a club in a different shade of grey, and convince themselves they like the sound a little better.
