[ adj ] causing awareness of your shortcomings <adj.all> golf is a humbling game
Humble \Hum"ble\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Humbled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Humbling}.] 1. To bring low; to reduce the power, independence, or exaltation of; to lower; to abase; to humilate.
Here, take this purse, thou whom the heaven's plagues Have humbled to all strokes. --Shak.
The genius which humbled six marshals of France. --Macaulay.
2. To make humble or lowly in mind; to abase the pride or arrogance of; to reduce the self-sufficiently of; to make meek and submissive; -- often used rexlexively.
Humble yourselves therefore under the mighty hand of God, that he may exalt you. --1 Pet. v. 6.
Syn: To abase; lower; depress; humiliate; mortify; disgrace; degrade.
It's nothing less than a new way to handicap the Humbling Game.