The European Tour Group announced today that Cedric Gugler has been sanctioned for breaching its Code of Conduct at a HotelPlanner Tour tournament. An independent disciplinary committee, which met on 3 November 2025, determined that Gugler had acted contrary to the conduct and ethics expected of circuit members during the first round of the Raiffeisenbank Golf Challenge at the Kaskáda Golf Resort in the Czech Republic on 12 June 2025.
He was disqualified from the tournament after playing his ball from an incorrect spot on the green, before putting, on multiple occasions. The Independent Disciplinary Committee, composed of Philip Evans KC, sports administrator Ian Larsen, and Legends Tour member Markus Brier, ruled that Gugler’s conduct constituted a serious breach of the circuit’s Code of Conduct by recklessly violating the Rules of Golf.
Gugler will not be able to play in any of the first 10 tournaments of the HotelPlanner Tour in 2026
Due to the severity of the breach, he has been suspended for the first ten events of the HotelPlanner Tour season, starting on 29 January 2026, the day of the first tournament of the tour (formerly known as the Challenge Tour) of the 2026 season, the SDC Open in South Africa. He will be allowed to return once the first ten events have concluded, a date to be determined once the HotelPlanner Tour 2026 schedule has been finalised and announced.
