Qualifying is common in the top rungs of professional golf. Causes range from sloppy counting
That’s what makes the Swiss’s 3, 25, 25-year-old CEDCRIC GUGGEC CEDRCR so amazing.
In June, Gugler, who plays on the Hotelplanner Tour – a feeder round of the DP World tour – was behind the first round in the wrong program in placing the European Tour Group this week.
At that time, fitness was done regardless of how much food, possibly because the cause of DQ was not known. That changed Friday when the tour announced that an independent disciplinary panel had investigated the Guggler’s actions and ruled that he ‘behaved in a manner that’ he had behaved in a manner that ‘behaved in a manner that met the standards of conduct and behavior expected of tour members. “
The panel decided that the way punters marked his balls on his opening 75 at the Raiffeisenbank Challenge was a violation of the rules of golf. “
Guggler will pay an outstanding price for his transgression. The panel set him up for the first 10 travel events of the HotelPlanner Season, starting with the SDC open house in South Africa on Jan. 29. The damage this decision will do to Guggler’s reputation will be very expensive.
Gugler makes 18 hotel tour starts in 2025 and finishes 166th in the Tour points race. In the lead-up to the Czech Republic Summit, he missed seven cuts in 10 moves and was listed under $4,000 in earnings.
Gugler played a little in the DP world tour, but he finished the 42nd invitation as sponsors of the 2024 European in his country, which he called “my job.”
“I love playing in front of a big crowd on a big stage and it makes me stronger as a golfer,” Guggler said. “It was special to play on the DP world tour and that’s where I feel I belong. My goal is to get there as soon as possible.”
Here is the full European Tour team statement:
The European Touring Group has announced today that Cedric Gugler has been allowed to breach its code of conduct in the competition on hotel tours.
An independent disciplinary panel, which met on November 3, 2025, found that Guggler had behaved in a manner below the standards of conduct during the first round of the Czech Republic on June 12, 2025.
He was admitted to the tournament after playing his ball in the wrong place on several fairways.
An independent disciplinary panel – including Philip Evans KC, Sports Manager Ian Larsen and Legends Tour Markses Brier – ruled that Google’s behavior was a breach of the TOURURY code of conduct for the sake of Golf.
Due to serious injury, the first 10 tour events of the season have been suspended, starting on January 29, 2026, the date of the first tournament of the Tour Season, the SDC is open in South Africa.
He will be allowed to return after completing the first ten events, which will be determined once the hotel’s 2026 tour schedule is completed and announced.
