PA-PLAYA I'm convinced that carts don't help pace of play
You’re correct. When we reopened after Covid we didn’t allow carts, it was walking only and the 18 hole pace of play was almost an hour faster. It’s because you hit the ball and walk to it. You aren’t with another person and are held prisoner driving to their ball. Do some reason in a cart people drive all over the place…. Not just to their ball… I don’t get it. We see them coming down 9 and it’s like “wtf are they doing “. They drive back and Dorothy to other people’s ball, check a ball in the middle of another fairway if nobody is on the hole. If you were walking…. You’re not doing that mileage. If your walking is there a 4 person search party in the woods for a lost ball??? NO… but in a cart, they’re all in the woods hunting for balls.
About the only time a cart is faster is if you’re playing alone. Even then though we see people just sitting in a cart in the fairway playing other phones.