Wasn't there an incident last season where a team lost a baseball game because the manager failed to turn in (or correctly update or something) his lineup card?

I'm hardly defending golf - I've wasted far too much of my time and money playing - but there's shit like that in lots of sports.

My game and my car--with one stone!!!!!

I dont think a game was lost in baseball due to a manager not signing a lineup card. The umpires would say something at the beginning of the game if necessary. Therefore, I am agreeing with James that something trivial like not signing your scorecard, or, if you have something in your way from hitting the ball, say your ball comes to rest next to a rock, and you are allowed to move the rock, but if you move the rock (so you dont destroy your golf club in the process) and your ball moves inadvertently, you a penalized. If you miscount the number of shots you took (on purpose or not) you are disqualified. Every other sport has someone else making $15 a game, keep track of points, why in golf is it the golfer keeping track if someone else is actually keeping track just to see if they are cheating. Just have an official scorer for each player.