Jose Manuel Lara was disqualified due to a 'serious breach of etiquette' because of the caddie incident. (Getty Images)

You might think that caddies are just the guys that carry those heavy golf bags around the course each and every week, but the responsibility of the looper is extensive. They're in charge of packing the bag with the necessary things for the day, making sure waters are full and cold, getting exact yardages, and making sure before you get to the first tee that the bag has 14 clubs -- and 14 clubs only.

When I caddied on the LPGA, I would count twice on the first tee before we teed off to make sure we didn't somehow have another stick in there by mistake (at one point, my friend, LPGA player Irene Cho, was working with two drivers on the range so you had to make sure one of them found its way back to the locker room). 

Welcome in the caddie of European Tour golfer Jose Manuel Lara. Playing in the BMW International this week in Cologne, Germany, Lara's caddie realized on the second hole that they were carrying 15 clubs, one more than allowed in the rules of golf. The normal penalty is a two shots penalty per hole that you had the extra club (we saw this in the 2001 British Open when Ian Woosnam's caddie brought two drivers and Woosnam was forced to card a bogey on the first hole despite making a birdie), but Lara's caddie decided to take a different approach.

He snuck away and tried to ditch the 15th club in the woods, taking the bag into the woods to "relieve himself" before his playing partners got suspicious. 

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"They went and asked the chap 'What are you doing?' and he sort of fumbled out an answer saying 'I've got this wrong - I've done something bad. I wish it hadn't happened, etc etc'," said European Tour chief referee John Paramor.

"It was clear the club was out of the bag and in the bush at the time. He admitted it straight away and regretted his action."

Lara was disqualified due to a "serious breach of etiquette," missing out on the hefty $2.5 million purse that goes along with the European Tour event, and also, he is now looking for a new employee.

"He's kind of been asked not to come back and that's how the matter has been resolved," Paramor said after the round. 

Lara has played in 13 European Tour events this year and is in 65th place on the money list with €189,122.