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All examples mentioned bar the Sergio one resulted in fines and most recent was 7 years ago. Not one incident was deemed severe enough...

I believe there are fines handed out relatively often on the DPWT for various misbehaviour, Eddie Pepperell has certainly talked about...

so for all the outrageous behaviour that seemingly happens at every event according to some...not a single player has been sanctioned...

fair enough...when was the last time a player was sanctioned for conduct? who and for what? just to give an idea of where that bar is

fair enough...and does current code give officials discretion to impose penalties?...what is the threshold?

They are likely to bottle it in reality, as they do with slow play penalties. Golf is spineless on that front, sadly. That's on them...

i think the stakes and pressures at that end of the game are a bit higher than our sunday stableford and as humans that can spill over...

would be hell of a brave official to give a penalty to rory in the final group for conduct on the 72nd...or more to the point, didn't.

'fringe' in the sense that they are rare. sanction them all?? remove all emotion and venting from the game? how many penalty shots would...

yes because up until this point nobody has been threatened with a penalty for 'conduct' before.

extreme fringe examples. and yes those could be defined as sanctionable. However, "player throws club" how far, 10 feet towards their...

litigious in the context that there could be an appeal process that overturns a decision...disciplinary sanctions get overturned every...

but it is different as its subjective. penalties in golf are objective. is your ball OB? yes - penalty do u have 15 clubs in your bag...

cant imagine a claret jug being awarded retrospectively after an upheld appeal on a contentious disorderly conduct penalty

4 on the short par 5 on my home course and 1 on a sometimes driveable par 4 (which was 2 foot from a 1) again on my home course. also...