Two blokes having fun on a golf course. Heavens forbid. It makes golf look a little silly with such rigid responses. Any other sport and the official has a quiet word with the people involved and that's enough.I think a DQ is way over the top.
And was he really praticing?
When else is he going to tee a ball up on the red tee that needed practicing?
A bollocking from the competition secretary would have been ample in this situation.