If people still think of golf as the gentlemanly, lily-white sport it once was, and that its professionals couldn’t possibly stain the sport by using steroids, as other sports have done, they may be profoundly wrong.
As the sport increasingly favors power-hitters, many in the game are saying it’s time to start drug tests.
“We market the guys who hit it 300 yards,” Tour player Joe Ogilvie told the New York Times. “If that’s your message, and people see that beginning at the high school level, I think as a tour it is very naive to think that somebody down the line won’t cheat.”
In fact, it’s already happening in the game.
The Royal and Ancient said countries competing in the World Amateur Championships in South Africa in October would be given drug tests, and the LPGA said it is considering a policy that would test players.
What a spectacle that would be. The last bastion of civility in sports being dragged down by a steroid scandal. Let’s hope it never comes to that, and the best way to prevent it would be by having a testing policy now or in the near future.
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Jason Scott Deegan:
The Accidental Golfer:
Katharine Dyson:
Kiel Christianson:
"The last bastion of civility in sports being dragged down by a steroid scandal."
No, there has been no civility in golf for a lot of years. You and Baldwin and a host of so called "journalists" removed civility from the mix with your un-civil need to put your spin on every move any golfing professional makes. Adding steroids to this game just gives you all more garbage to sling.
In regards to steroids, human growth hormones and other illegal, performance-enhancing drugs that athletes use: There is something for everything. Notice that cyclists and bodybuilders look differently? Yet competitors in each are notiorious for using illegal drugs.
If the PGA thinks they can trust all their golfers to not cheat, they're wrong.
--WKW
**Natural talent at 3 years old, natural talent at 30. Don't hate, congratulate. If anyone is juicing, it's someone of your ilk....
As for Putt4Par, I'm guessing s/he tossed civility out of the golf cart long ago, based on the usual tone of her/his comments.
Just to echo WKW: There are all different kinds of dope, including stuff that increases firing and speeds recovery of fast-twitch muscle neurons, just like those used in ballistic movements like the golf swing.
As for Putt4Par, I'm guessing s/he tossed civility out of the golf cart long ago, based on the usual tone of her/his comments.
ROFLMAO, unlike yor bosom buddies, Alex,Judge Smells, George, Ford and ToddCommish along with the other Dwarves,JR Joe Cool and his stuck caps key.
Considering the shovels full of Shyt that all you journalistic guys spew in your daily blogs, you should be used to getting negative comments back at you.