We play fast. Not looking for balls and screwing with bad lies more
than makes up for hitting another ball.
We also play "ready golf" When you get to your ball you hit it.
Most of the time when I play, the course is deserted anyway. If you
start after lunch in Florida in the summer, everyone else is gone
home.
When someone does come up behind us, if they don't have anyone behind
them, we will loop back behind them, replaying the previous hole. That
gets you a 20 hole day.
I played on Kiawa on a September afternoon and thought there wasn't
enough water in the world to keep my hydrated. Between that and the
gator on the 5th hole sitting next to a pond, I thought golf in South
Carolina could be bad for your health and certainly your sense of well
being.
When we were playing, one hole had a fox just sitting there next to a pond.
I was like... wow... check it out! Then someone pointed out it wasn't
moving. Turns out it was a cardboard fox to scare the geese (who were
milling around near it)