PGA Tour Testing Reveals No PED Use

I can’t say that this announcement really surprised me, but it seems that after a year of testing for performance enhancing substances of players on the PGA tour, no player tested positive.  Not a one.  The announcement was made Wednesday by PGA Tour commissioner Tim Finchem.  Besides testing for anabolic steroids and human growth hormone, the tour also tested players for so-called recreational drugs, however, these results would not have been made public.  According to Finchem, positive results for recreational drugs among tour players would fall under “conduct unbecoming,” and the individual would be dealt with accordingly.

Jim Furyk (Image: Zuma Press)

Tour officials were initially hesitant to institute a drug-testing policy, believing that the use of PED’s in golf was non-existent.  Based on the results of the year’s worth of testing, their assumptions were correct.

The fact that no tour player tested positive for PED’s came as no suprise to PGA pro Jim Furyk.  He himself was tested three times throughout the year, and the only problem Furyk noticed some of the players had with the testing was the occasional inability to “produce” a sample on demand.