Steroids on the PGA Tour?
Tim Finchem and Tiger Woods came out this week with differing views on whether drug testing needs to be implemented on the PGA Tour. Woods said he didn’t think anyone was using performance-enhancing drugs, but felt it was better to be proactive than reactive about it.
While strength-conditioning has been a constant on the tour for the last 10 years or so, sheer muscle alone does not a golfer make. The PGA and Nationwide tours are full of guys that can hit the ball 350 yards without really breaking a sweat. Does that make them legitimate contenders? Hardly. Bubba Watson and J.B. Holmes were all the rage at the beginning of the year this year because they hit the ball incredible distances, but where are they now?
My opinion is that if a professional golfer wants to try performance-enhancing drugs, let him. It would be so obvious that other players would certainly let PGA officials know if they suspected something was amiss with another player. Golf is such an exacting game that extra mass and muscle without talent means nothing.