Tiger Woods popularised golf to non golfers. He is slowly getting off the radar. Like all other games, performance in golf rises with age, reaches an apogee and then declines.
The handicap is the best measure of your performance. Handicaps start from 36 for women and 28 for men. A handicap 2 is ‘better’ than handicap 25. ‘Better’ for bragging rights, because the handicap allows two golfers of different capabilities to compete.