Yes, we understand that golf is a gentleman’s game filled with tradition and honor and blah blah blah, but this seems a little excessive.

After a bad second shot on the par-5 17th hole during the first round of last week’s BMW PGA Championship on the European Tour, Rory tossed his golf club a few feet into the ground before calmly retrieving it. The act seemed to pass unnoticed until Wednesday, when a European Tour spokesperson told the Golf Blot: “Rory will be disciplined under the player’s Code of Conduct for the club throw.”

The European Tour is a little more transparent about its disciplinary proceedings than the PGA Tour, who doesn’t comment at all on these matters, but if Rory’s getting punished for this one can only imagine how much Tiger’s swearing has cost him over the years.