Let's say you are playing in a multi-day tournament such as our Match Play or Club Championship. Your club gets damaged in the first round during the normal course of play and you put the club back in your bag with the intent of replacing it at the turn. You end up forgetting about the club and continue playing the subsequent matches and rounds.
So what happens to your score on the first day or even the second day?
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Since your club was damaged during the first round, you are allowed to put it back in your club and your score is not affected for the first round. However, since you ended up sleeping on it and forgetting about the damaged club until the second round when you pulled the club out, you are disqualified for carrying a non-conforming club.
The club is considered to be damaged during the first round but is non-conforming during the second round.
This happened to Matt Every during the 2015 Sony Open where he damaged his 4-iron on Thursday and still had the club in his bag for Friday's round. He discovered it on the ninth hole on Friday, called for the the rules official and was disqualified from the tournament.
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