There is basically nothing about this post that makes any sense.
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For the most part your push cart guys are the better golfers, but they do help slow down the course. They would be that much faster if they would be riding in a cart.
On a busy course, a cart-rider can't play any faster than a walker. If the rounds are taking four hours, then a walker is going to take four hours to play and riding in a cart is going to take four hours to play. Regardless of whether you are riding or walking, once you arrive at your ball you have to wait. So whether you spend 1.5 hours of your round walking and 2.5 hours waiting and playing or you spend .75 hours riding and 3.25 hours waiting and playing it doesn't make any difference.
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If the box gets stacked up or you let them play through, after they tee off, now you have to wait forever for them to get to their ball.
This makes zero sense. First, if the course is crowded then there's nowhere for them to go if you let them through. If there's room, then you're out of position and it's you slowing down the course. If it's a single that you're trying to let through so they can try their luck to make it through several groups and find an opening, then why are you waiting for them to get to their ball? The pace of play issue here is not that they are walking, but that you don't know how to let people play through. Lack of common sense is a much bigger pace of play issue than anyone walking.
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Most of the times your cart pusher is a single, usually your college or high school golf team guys. This is another problem I see from time-to-time -- letting singles play on a busy day -- most courses will pair you up, but not all of them do.
I'm not really sure why singles --who can obviously play faster than a group-- would slow things down. But assuming they do, this reinforces what the real problem is with pace of play: bad management. All other factors, including personal habits, pale in comparison to the impact of bad management.