What's wrong with playing golf to get better at golf? To me, practice and competition is what makes the game interesting and fun. The better I play, the more enjoyable it is.
If it really does work for you, absolutely nothing is wrong with that approach.
Again, think about growing the game, not just what suits us nuts.
Carl,
Why do you think we should worry with growing the game?
Not sure who "we" is. However, there's lots of discussion in the golf community about "growing the game." I think I recall reading comments from others on this site suggesting they think it's important to grow the game, but that's not something I'm going to search for now. Obviously, people who have money to make out of golf want to grow it so they can sell more golf stuff, have more opportunities for teaching and other club pros, club and course managers, superintendents, even
golf course architects, and so on. I assume Nike would like to grow the game.
Personally, I don't give a s*it because I'm not in the golf business and as long as I have some nice courses to play on and some nice people to play with in the short period of my life that I have left in which I'll be able to play, then I'll be o.k.