Tell me about it. In the golf league it's basically match play and they hate me because I have a high handicap but I play like a lower handicap on 6 or 7 of the 9 hole, and just blow up on the other two. So I'm getting a stroke on a bunch of those holes and playing well, so I win them more often.
I've had multiple people tell me that I play way better than I score. I just find so many ways to give away strokes, be it poor short game, the occasional terrible tee shot, or a chunked wedge at the worst possible time. Also a lot of the times my second shot ends up around the green instead of on the green, so I need to rely on my short game which is pretty uniformly terrible (except my putting, which is decent). If I got to an average short game I like to think I could shave 5 strokes off my handicap quickly.
I've had multiple people tell me that I play way better than I score. I just find so many ways to give away strokes, be it poor short game, the occasional terrible tee shot, or a chunked wedge at the worst possible time. Also a lot of the times my second shot ends up around the green instead of on the green, so I need to rely on my short game which is pretty uniformly terrible (except my putting, which is decent). If I got to an average short game I like to think I could shave 5 strokes off my handicap quickly.