Vijay plays a "get out of a jail card"

[cookelad]

Bit like drink driving, you don't get tested every time you get behind the wheel. The list is there to advise and if you get tested and fail the test then your caught. No one has ever been charged for drunk driving unless they have been stopped and tested.

Does appear to be an even better ruling than Tiger's drop! Yes we all know you're guilty and you admitted as such but because we didn't send a quack in to take a blood test as soon as you admitted it you haven't failed a blood test!

i wonder if I could get my pilots licence in the same way? I've never failed a flight/piloting test!

 

[Bomber69]

I get what you mean Bomber :thup:

Problem from my point is, to use your analogy, the police will breathalise you if you're stopped under suspicion of drink driving. The PGA tour doesn't activley test for banned substances.

In this instance, again using your analogy, Vijay was pulled over by the police, admitted he was in the wrong, but the police don't test for this, so goes on his merry way.

Agreed, he is a lucky lad.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

The doping agency said the amount was so miniscule that it would have no positive effect on his ability.

Another case of golfers buying something at a huge price to try and improve their game then finding out that the product was virtually useless.

 

[USER1999]

But unless he is tested, how do they know how much he took?

 

[Fader]

So that means then that not only that he cannot be charged with it, he can go on using now within the doping rules!...

I'd never even heard of the stuff before all this but I would hope some form of regular testing is brought into the sport as it is in others.

 

[Jumboross]

I agree with Greg Norman, PGA seems very slack and it may cast serious shadows against the "honesty" of golf.
I am watching smug Tim giving his press conference, what a piece of work.

Isn't he a piece of work! Emperors new clothes and all that.......

 

[CallawayKid]

I couldn't take that Antler spray....it's too deer....

I'll get me coat

CK

 

[Steve Bamford]

The rulings around this whole arena need to be tightened up and brought into the 21st Century. In a sport where pressure and keeping your nerve is key (like snooker) it's totally naïve to think that some players don't dabble with performance enhancing technology that they consume.

 

[Doon frae Troon]

I believe that amateur schools golf have tougher drug testing rules than the PGA

 

[Hacker Khan]

The rulings around this whole arena need to be tightened up and brought into the 21st Century.

Golf doesn't seem to do 21st century very well. Unless it comes to making money.

 

[6inchcup]

according to sky news this morning the spray that vejay used is for improving your sexual arousal and not the high dose ones used for muscle fatigue,if its like the myth about oysters being an aphrodisiac then its a con,i had a dozen oysters on saturday and only 10 worked!!!!!!!

 

[fundy]

Oh deer, this is going to get properly messy, seems Vijay has filed a suit against the US PGA in the Supreme Court of the State of New York, charging the PGA Tour with violating its duty of care and good faith

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/golf/2013/05/08/vijay-singh-pga-tour-deer-antler-spray/2143849/

 

[One Planer]

Looks like Mr Finchams quick fix at sweeping it under the rug has back-fired.

 

[cookelad]

Nothing quite like doing someone a favour is there!

 

[sam19113]

From what I've read it seems that the professional golfing world is going to get a shock in the run up to the Olympics. Golf's drug testing procedure is nowhere near as rigorous as the Olympic's procedures.