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demonstrably false. I have seen guys who took 4 shots on a hole take longer on the green than I did to play the entire hole taking a 6 or even an 8. Of course, I might be an outlier, and numerous people I have been matched up with have made comments along the lines of "you have the fastest trigger I have ever seen" (stated when they did not see where I hit it because I had already taken my shot before they started watching)
Except I find it pretty common...there are people taking a long time before each shot who shoot four and others taking a long time before each shot to shoot 8...there are many, many, many people out there who take longer to play four than others who take 8.
And, in the story the OP posted, their time was much, much faster than most people play at of any handicap.
I took a few days to mull this over... I wanted to reply without being some kind of Richard. Yes- you are an outlier. There I said it, and I will stand by that!!
HOWEVER... I was more or less generalizing most people. Given the fact that IF the (average) 8 stroke guy takes the same time over his ball as an average 4 stroke does, Then realistically, it would take twice as long. Now, 'apparently' the one guy took a 17 on a Par 3. Even IF he was a bit quick on the draw, he would have taken 6 or 7 shots off tee or drop area (assuming it was over water) and then chipped and 4 putted or whatever. The point is there is NO chance he would finish in the same time as a guy who took a 3 or a 4,5,6. Unless he was machine gunning them and hitting the next before the previous one hit the water anyway.
As I said, taking the 'average' guy trying to play from the tips, who has no business there and taking his 7,8,9 or 10 compared to another 'average' guy who can regularly par or bogey (leaving out extenuating circumstances) the hole, he is invariably holding everyone else up. And 4 guys in the same group doing the same would be catastrophic.
Even if, as somebody said (or hoped), they were 'keeping up', It would still be pretty traumatic for the group immediately behind to see such shenanigans. You would think they are 7 holes behind. These days you can't always tell if there even IS a hole or 3 open in front. you can't always see that far ahead. But it certainly would feel like it's taking forever just because you have to watch their suffering...