I've been playing off and on since 1962 when I was 12, and I've never had anyone hit into us on a par 3. Since a par 3 is so close, you would think a loud sorry would be what I would expect to hear. If you didn't hear it, I would toss the ball back off the green.
On par 4's or par 5's it's much more common. Just two weeks ago a guy in my group on #3 at Kilamanjaro Par 5 hit his second shot about 260 with the roll and it ended up on the front fringe of the green and the group in front were still putting. He drove up in his cart and apologized and they said, no problem.
Sometimes you will have a blind drive, especially if you cut across bunkers on doglegs. I had that happen about six months ago on the par 5 at Mallory (Caroline) #5 that has a creek across the fairway. I hit my drive over the bunker on the right, a shorter distance that way and it's further from the creek, I can drive the creek if I don't go far enough to the right. When we got over on the other side of the bunker, those guys in front were still on our side of the creek and my ball was right next to his cart. I have no idea why they were still there, the green we could see from the tee and it was clear. I apologized, but it's sometimes hard to avoid when you have a slow group in front of you on the championships.
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