The journey to improvement is the greatest of all.
How right you are, Metallion. Another golfer of some repute felt the same way:
"I know that thousands of golfers console themselves with the game's being an avenue to exercise and companionship -- which is wonderful -- but every golfer, at the bottom of his heart, wants to play the game relatively well. To do that takes some application, some thought, some effort, but the golfer who goes about this wisely will play good golf and should go on to enjoy his golf increasingly the rest of his life. The greatest pleasure is otained by improving."