I need a decision on the rules!

I player was playing from the fairway and chunks a wedge into a hazard in front of the green. Out of anger he throws his wedge into the tree and it drops in the hazard a few yard from his ball. Does the player incur any penalty? Did he ground his club in the hazard?

I read the rules and really don't know????

Thanks

No penalty.

Rule 13-4 c allows the player, to place his clubs in the Hazard, before he makes the stroke:
1. Provided nothing is done that constitutes testing the condition of the hazard or improves the lie of the ball, there is no penalty if the player ....
(b) places his clubs in a hazard.

Decision 13-4/21 rules on a case, where the player throws a rake into a bunker that
Placing a rake in a bunker is permissible. In this case, throwing the rake into the bunker was the equivalent of placing it.

We can learn from that decision, that the ruling bodies think, that the information, You could get from watching the rake fall into the sand is of no importance.

So throwing the club into the bunker should be treated alike.

McFade

The same rule applies if you accicently DROP your club into a bunker or water hazard. You aren't TESTING the conditions, you just dropped your club, no penalty. Other than looking like a clummy idiot.