Dan,
Yeah, in my normal group it happens all the time
but in that company, I think he would have been a bit more suspicious........
And if he had been suspicious, I would love to have been on the preceeding green. If all knew what was going on, they might have had 9, 10, or 11 putts each! I think I would have found a way to go to the bathroom in the bushes. Of course, the hit man was in the bushes in a vacant lot next to the tee, so it would have to be other bushes, preferably far away from the tee.....
I wonder if they had caddies?
As I mentioned, police got suspicious when they played ahead calmly. When asked about it, they shrugged their shoulders and said "well, we knew he was dead and there wasn't much we could do for him......." rather than rush up to call 911. In retrospect, they should have put on a show, even if any fool could see he wasn't going to survive with dozens of bullets in him from the machine gun fire.