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It what is reminiscent of AOL perusing farmland in MA , The R & A will start testing its players for performance-enhancing drugs. This needle-in-a-haystack approach will start with this years world amateur team championship in Cape Town South Africa.

Is this just chest-pounding? Or is it the first volley in what could be an explosion of finger-pointing and second-guessing for the Teflon-proofed golf world.

If you listen to the PGA's Finchem...he believes that "just telling his players what the rules are" is good enough.

Okaaaay.

And if you listen to Tiger Woods "being proactive instead of reactive" is a better way to go.

Thanks Tiger.

Of course, neither is going to give the media a straight answer on what should be done to prevent performance-enhancing drugs in the sport.

But I will.

I bet the first thing you thought of when you read the words performance-enhancing drugs, was steroids. But you'd be wrong. Steroids aren't the real issue.

Thanks to baseball...steroid is the buzz-word of our era. Joe Public knows steroids as making ones muscles and forehead's pop out.....and privates shrink.
So everyone is thinking: that could never be used for golf right? This is all just poppycock....right?

Enter Floyd Landis. The Tour de France whipping boy.

Suddenly, thanks to the media's infatuation of an American cyclists "low testosterone" levels, everyone now knows that you can get "up"(no pun intended) for an event with products other than steroids.

It what is reminiscent of AOL perusing farmland in MA , The R & A will start testing its players for performance-enhancing drugs. This needle-in-a-haystack approach will start with this years world amateur team championship in Cape Town South Africa.

Is this just chest-pounding? Or is it the first volley in what could be an explosion of finger-pointing and second-guessing for the Teflon-proofed golf world.

If you listen to the PGA's Finchem...he believes that "just telling his players what the rules are" is good enough.

Okaaaay.

And if you listen to Tiger Woods "being proactive instead of reactive" is a better way to go.

Thanks Tiger.

Of course, neither is going to give the media a straight answer on what should be done to prevent performance-enhancing drugs in the sport.

But I will.

I bet the first thing you thought of when you read the words performance-enhancing drugs, was steroids. But you'd be wrong. Steroids aren't the real issue.

Thanks to baseball...steroid is the buzz-word of our era. Joe Public knows steroids as making ones muscles and forehead's pop out.....and privates shrink.
So everyone is thinking: that could never be used for golf right? This is all just poppycock....right?

Enter Floyd Landis. The Tour de France whipping boy.

Suddenly, thanks to the media's infatuation of an American cyclists "low testosterone" levels, everyone now knows that you can get "up"(no pun intended) for an event with products other than steroids.