I hope this is the case. Maybe the ridiculous AI scores had more to do with making your golfer with super skills and the AI adjusted accordingly because I was reading where a variance of gamers seeing scores of -20 to -40. I think alot of "sim" gamers don't admit they build thier golfer to unrealistic proportions so they can win almost everytime then complain about the AI scoring unrealistically taking away the sim experience even though thier created golfer is averaging 375 yard drives.
I give my golfer power enough that he averages about 290-300 yds and touch little else. Hopefully this will give me AI scores in the -10 to -15 range.
Another issue is course difficulty and weather affecting AI scores realistically. If it's raining and gusty then scores should reflect it where everybody struggles to break par and if playing at Bethpage the winner shouldn't be higher than -10.