I played a tournament this summer with a kid who is known locally. Good kid, but doesn't know/doesn't care about the rules. He'd move his lie, walk in front of other players throwing, talk constantly, his phone actually rang as the leader on our card was teeing off, almost every putt in the circle was a falling putt, he even grabbed a basket as he was trying to hike over a pyramid basket while another player was putting, causing the basket to shift and the other player's putt hit the top lip of the cage. Granted, that player never should have putt while this kid was walking right next to the basket, but he was getting frustrated and he putt anyway. Moreover, the kid in question was caught twice in one round "forgetting" how many throws he had on a hole and trying to lower his score. By the end of the round he'd gotten 2 falling putt violations and 2 courtesy violations. Needless to say, the whole card of 5 was very upset. He'd been told rules politely at first, figuring he didn't know, then was given warnings, then finally violation strokes. (which he threw a fit over and protested) End of the round, he was reported to the TD, who said that this kid was in his leagues and club and that everyone knew that he didn't know or pay attention to rules and laughed it off. He even ended up taking the four violation strokes off the kid's score. I was livid. I mean, it's only a C-Tier AM2, but it was bad enough for a player to behave that way. I understand not knowing rules, but to be informed, continually violate, then get upset when reprimanded is ridiculous. The thing that REALLY got me was that the TD laughed it off and adjusted the kid's score. Never playing an event hosted by that group again.
TL;DR - Player violated rules and TD laughed it off and removed violation strokes from player's score because they were friends in the same leagues/club. :wall: