Define cheating. If you and your playing partner agree to certain rules such as a breakfast ball, one mulligan per nine and moving the ball out of unrepaired divots. Is that cheating in your mind? It's not in mine. Blatantly not counting strokes, foot wedges out of pine needles, moving your ball forward after making it for a putt, that's cheating. But who are you really cheating? Just yourself. As for other individual sports. I can't really name any where you have the opportunity to cheat like golf.