Years ago, my Club Pro joined us in a game and he remarked to me that my game was much more solid than what my handicap indicated. I looked him in the eye and said something like I don't care how my playing partners are getting around, I play the ball down and putt everything out, adjusted for ESC of course. A few weeks later he invited me to be his partner in their PGA Zone Monday Pro-Am. I gagged on my own spit all the way around and he never said another word about my 'cap. 🙂
Today I go with the flow of what everyone else wants to play knowing there will be events I enter that play strictly by the rules and my current handicap is artificially low by a couple of strokes. '