PGA to begin blood testing in 2018.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/2716734-pga-tour-to-add-blood-testing-next-season-as-part-of-ped-screening

Violators will be publicly reported. That should be interesting.

nah.. just means no more juicing.... they are giving all a year plus notice... thats not an accident...

It's about time.

Does this have anything to do with Tiger and his recent issues?

Steroids are clearly a major problem on the PGA tour...I hope Justin Thomas gets this memo!

Does this have anything to do with Tiger and his recent issues?

Probably not. It probably has everything to do with the Olympics.

nah.. just means no more juicing.... they are giving all a year plus notice... thats not an accident...

Also going to publicly announce violators for drugs of abuse along with PEDs. Wonder why they are making the move to publicly announce violators, doesn't seem in the PGAs best interest.

VJ

This thread wont make it to five pages before it's locked.

I think this will be good for the tour. Not only for the obvious reasons but think about all of the future injuries that will be prevented later in these players career.

PGA Tour, not PGA

its a waste of time...they will just turn it into cycling.... always some drama around a drug test.... whoopie... i personally loved the fact they didnt release any info on suspensions etc... "we" do NOT need to know

Does this have anything to do with Tiger and his recent issues?

Probably not. It probably has everything to do with the Olympics.

yet another reason why the olymipics are bad for the sport.... now we are bowing and scraping to the largest group of crooks on earth ? another little piece of 'the game" sold off to the highest bidder

its a waste of time...they will just turn it into cycling.... always some drama around a drug test.... whoopie... i personally loved the fact they didnt release any info on suspensions etc... "we" do NOT need to know

The integrity of sport is important, if you don't have that I don't really see the point of it all. I think transparency is important, as well everyone talks in rumours about Dustin Johnson for example, if we just heard clearly what happened it would make a difference, rather than Chinese whispers and different people saying different things. Other sports have it, so why not golf?

VJ

Bingo. The lawyers made this decision

Tiger was a pencil neck in college and look at him now. I wonder...

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I want PED's in sports. These are professionals, let them take what they want.

I want PED's in sports. These are professionals, let them take what they want.

I have always found it kind of funny that athletes can get cortisone shots and be prescribed every which type of painkiller but something like hgh under a doctor's recommendation can't be used for recovery because it's "banned". Seems like a bizarre double standard to take. Professional sports leagues should be doing everything they can to help their players heal from injury, sports are more fun when superstars are healthy and performing.

I want PED's in sports. These are professionals, let them take what they want.

 

I have always found it kind of funny that athletes can get cortisone shots and be prescribed every which type of painkiller but something like hgh under a doctor's recommendation can't be used for recovery because it's "banned". Seems like a bizarre double standard to take. Professional sports leagues should be doing everything they can to help their players heal from injury, sports are more fun when superstars are healthy and performing.

**Internet high five**

No one has ever given me a satisfactory answer to this. It's all about weird moralizing and not actual logic.

To hell with dialing back the equipment, dial back the players!!!!

& Lance Armstrong come from behind (again) to win his xyz Tour de France (major championship)..

This should have been in place 30 yrs ago

The modern era starts next year

do we really need (or want) to know what meds guys are on or if they have smoked a little?

I want PED's in sports. These are professionals, let them take what they want.

 

I have always found it kind of funny that athletes can get cortisone shots and be prescribed every which type of painkiller but something like hgh under a doctor's recommendation can't be used for recovery because it's "banned". Seems like a bizarre double standard to take. Professional sports leagues should be doing everything they can to help their players heal from injury, sports are more fun when superstars are healthy and performing.

 

**Internet high five**

 

No one has ever given me a satisfactory answer to this. It's all about weird moralizing and not actual logic.

Never *truly* understood the no PEDs in pro sports... Especially for golf. If I were on tour I'd juice up not to get jacked but in order to hit 2,000 balls in the morning and play 36 in the afternoon day after day after day after day after day after day... These guys taking some of dat special sauce is just fine with me.

Roids in football might not be a good thing because I'm concerned the NFL won't be around long term. Guys are so big and strong now that it will be difficult to prevent serious injuries without fundamentally changing the game. As roids relate to golf - juice up baby.

do we really need (or want) to know what meds guys are on or if they have smoked a little?

I have no interest in knowing. I've never had an interest in knowing in any sport to be honest.

This announcement has 99.9% to do with the Olympics. There's a reason this was announced at the same time as the extension of golf being an Olympic sport through 2024.

The other 0.01%? You guessed it...

I think this will be good for the tour. Not only for the obvious reasons but think about all of the future injuries that will be prevented later in these players career.

Like back and leg/knee issues?

I think this will be good for the tour. Not only for the obvious reasons but think about all of the future injuries that will be prevented later in these players career.

 

Like back and leg/knee issues?

The fact that you can't see that Tiger's back issues were caused by Sean Foley, is mind boggling.

If you would do the research, you would see that he has ruined more backs than any human in history. Read up on Jamie Lovemark. He worked with Foley when Tiger did and had the exact same problem and surgeries Tiger had. Lovemark was smart though, he didn't comeback early. Took his time. But seriously do the research. There are Foley has caused numerous players to have back problems.

I think it's great. I like to see the results of ability, hard work and perseverance and I don't like the not so subtle pressure on clean athletes to keep up.

Golf is never going to turn into track and field but there's no harm in catching up to every other significant sport.

I want PED's in sports. These are professionals, let them take what they want.

What is competitive sport without at least the illusion of a level playing field? Making it legal essentially forces everyone to take PEDs to compete, and I think that would be very sad, who wants to see a chemical contest? Some might say pro sport jumped the shark in relating to the general public already, that might be the straw that broke the camel's back. Doctors would become more important than coaches, drug industry would become even richer.

That's not even talking about the absolute disaster of the East German programme and many other doping problems on athlete's health. If there's no regulation of this kind of stuff, it gets very dangerous.

If you want to see records being broken through illegal and artificial means, why not allow other forms of cheating as well?

Recreational drugs are different in my opinion, but if you get a ban, then the public deserve to know why I believe. You're earning lots of money and fans pay to see you play, so you have a duty to your fans.

I want PED's in sports. These are professionals, let them take what they want.

 

What is competitive sport without at least the illusion of a level playing field? Making it legal essentially forces everyone to take PEDs to compete, and I think that would be very sad, who wants to see a chemical contest? Some might say pro sport jumped the shark in relating to the general public already, that might be the straw that broke the camel's back. Doctors would become more important than coaches, drug industry would become even richer.

 

That's not even talking about the absolute disaster of the East German programme and many other doping problems on athlete's health. If there's no regulation of this kind of stuff, it gets very dangerous.

 

If you want to see records being broken through illegal and artificial means, why not allow other forms of cheating as well?

I just don't see it that way. If we want the illusion of a level playing field then we need to take regulations to the extreme **first time offenders are banned for life with no exceptions**

Can we at least agree regulations are wonderfully ineffective?