In what sports/activities does an amateur's performance vary as much as in golf?

Dinsdale
Tue, 09 Sep 2025 11:14:53 +0000
The Game Room

I golf regularly and am decent, not great. Tho my scores are generally within a certain range, on any given day, I don’t know if I’ll play great or horribly. On any individual shot, I don’t know if I’ll hit an amazing shot, or a shot so horribly bad. (Most shots are just predictably decent.) The unpredictable variability is kinda amazing.

I’m sure examples are legion, but I’m having difficulty coming up with them. The best I’ve come up with was if a bowler, instead of hitting the head pin, rolled a gutter ball.

So in what other activities - in sport or elsewhere - do you not know if you will do great or terribly as I describe happens in golf?

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