If four walkers are playing a nassau on a hot day and someone can't find a ball, what happens exactly?
He will hit his provisional. There is rarely a more profoundly stupid call in golf than that of "I saw where it went in, I'll find it". He probably will, but an extra few seconds to bunt another one wouldn't have killed him.
Glenn,
You are getting a raw deal on here from the walkers. No doubt about it. A very orthodox religion if ever there was one. But you aren't helping by calling them on it. You want them to live and let live, but you'll need to do the same. Sometimes, it takes one who played the game where there were never any carts to know all the intrinsic benefits missed by riding.
I'm about 60/40 in favour of walking. I favour carts when playing twice (or more) in one day, or occasionally on a course that is tough to walk where I've already played it on foot a number of times, playing with a buddy who always rides (who's company is superb regardless), or on the final day of any of my golf trips with the mob where we are all decidedly in less than ideal condition than we were on day 1. Or to use the Florida summer example, on any January-February Melbourne day of 105 degrees and a hot dry northerly wind.
But I've carried for 36 holes only recently, and will happily go to a destination where carts are banished and be thankful for it.