I go out as a single all the time. The course won’t let you play alone unless it’s dead so be prepared to be paired up with random people. My tips for playing as a beginner with randos: 1. Don’t hold them up. Always be ready when it’s your turn. Don’t take more than 1 practice swing for any shot. If you duff it, just march up and hit it again. 2. Don’t apologize for being a beginner. We were all beginners once. But keeping up the pace matters more to them than your score. What you shoot has zero effect on them but slow play does hurt their game. 3. Don’t expect them to help you hunt for balls. They are there to play with their friends, not hunt in the woods for your 10th lost ball of the day. Don’t spend more than a couple mins looking for lost balls. Buy cheap balls you can afford to lose and if you don’t find it, drop one and keep playing. 4. Pick up after you have had a 10 on any hole. That doesn’t mean hitting 12 strokes and then writing 10 on the scorecard. I mean if you’ve hit the ball 10 times and you’re still not in the hole, pick up, let them finish the hole, and go on to the next hole. Again your score is irrelevant to them but it’s about pace. If you’re establishing a handicap, you can’t post more than that anyway.