The European Tour Group has handed a 10-tournament suspension to a golfer for a ‘reckless’ breach of its Code of Behaviour during a HotelPlanner Tour event earlier this season.

Cedric Gugler was disqualified during the opening round of Raiffeisenbank Golf Challenge at the Kaskáda Golf Resort in the Czech Republic on June 12, where he carded an opening-round 75.

Gugler disqualification was for playing his ball from the wrong place on putting surfaces on multiple occasions, with the Swiss golfer adjudged to have fallen 'below the standards of behaviour and ethical conduct expected of Tour members'.

An Independent Disciplinary Panel, consisting of Philip Evans KC, sports administrator Ian Larsen and Legends Tour Member Markus Brier, met on November 3 and ruled that Gugler's conduct was a s

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