Vijay, what are you doing ?

[triple_bogey]

Sues the Tour, gets given a brand new BMW M5 courtesy car for the week. :thup:

 

[Siren]

http://images.thegolfchannel.com/downloads/SinghvPGATourSummonsandComplaint5813.pdf

The actual Lawsuit, it makes for very interesting reading.

 

[Hacker Khan]

It seems pretty clear the the golfing authorities have not really got a handle on drugs in their sport as this farce is proving. It's doing no one any favours. No one is saying that drugs are endemic in golf, but surely no one is naive enough to believe that performance enhancing drugs are not taken in golf either. As at the moment the potential rewards are huge and the testing seems lax to say the least.

I just wish the IOC would tell golf to get its act together and implement a strict drug testing policy or to get out of the Olympics.

 

[mikee247]

It was interesting listening to the commentators last night on Sky and especially Butch Harmon who said why would you sue the very people who have made you $63 million better off and the third best earner of all time.....? oo: ( Woods and Mickelson being 1 and 2 ) Especially when it was the drug enforcement people (cant remember their Acronym) who were the people who changed the status of the Deer Antler spray and possibly gave him the slight bad press...

Personally the guy is a plonker.... hes not very popular on tour and gets everyones back up for no apparent reason. The guy needs to chill and enjoy his millions.

Now this spray is legal anyone given it a go??? What does it do ???

 

[Blue in Munich]

It was interesting listening to the commentators last night on Sky and especially Butch Harmon who said why would you sue the very people who have made you $63 million better off and the third best earner of all time.....? oo: ( Woods and Mickelson being 1 and 2 ) Especially when it was the drug enforcement people (cant remember their Acronym) who were the people who changed the status of the Deer Antler spray and possibly gave him the slight bad press...

Personally the guy is a plonker.... hes not very popular on tour and gets everyones back up for no apparent reason. The guy needs to chill and enjoy his millions.

Now this spray is legal anyone given it a go??? What does it do ???

The PGA Tour haven't made him $63 million better off; they may have created the opportunity for him to make himself $63 million better off, but he earned it through hard work & winning tournaments, not by the PGA Tour handing it to him on a plate. And it was the PGA Tour who brought it out into the open and sullied his reputation before apparently knowing the full facts. And it was the PGA Tour who allegedly took a white American golfer to one side and quietly told him to stop using it whilst publicly exposing a black Fijian golfer as a drugs cheat, for using what would now appear to be a placebo..... (try Siren's link, para 48 onwards; tried to copy & paste but it wasn't having it).

I admire Butch very much for his comments and insight, but if he can't see why Vijay might not want to sue the ass off them, then I think he's just missed a very short tap-in. If that's the way they've handled this one, I don't expect to see the broomhandle successfully outlawed anytime soon.

 

[The_ACE]

Looking at that report it looks like vj has a very valid point, the spray was a placebo, the banned hormone substance was inactive, it made up a tiny proportion of the spray and the hormone is also found in milk. Frankly the pga tour looks like an organisation of mass incompetence over the last few weeks

 

[SatchFan]

$63 million! And they say cheats never prosper.

 

[bigslice]

As I said, he had no case to answer and they were threatening a 90 day ban.
That sounds a bit like he was presumed guilty of doping when he clearly was not.
How on earth can the PGA prove he was taking this substance. It clearly should never have been on a banned list.

he admitted taking it

 

[The_ACE]

he admitted taking it

They also knew mark calcavecchia was taking it, yet they did nothing but tell him to stop. The substance shouldn't have been a banned substance and the pga shouldn't have gone on a manhunt after vj when others had been using it

 

[HawkeyeMS]

This.

Having read all of it, it seems like with the backdrop of the Lance Armstrong goings on and Golf being a sport of un blemished integrity the PGA panicked, cast aside the sledgehammer and grabbed a steam hammer to crack a nut which as it turns out had nothing inside.

Trouble is the charge of "rape" has been publicly made and as some of the posters have already proved above he is still nailed on guilty, despite the fact that he isn't as there is not enough banned substance in the product to have any effect and should not have even be on the list. If the PGA have just gone Righto carry on chaps nothing to see here, and Vijay is still hanging out to dry then you can understand why he has done this.

Whether there was enough of the dodgy substance in it or not is irrelevant. It was on the banned substance list and he took it. Whether it should have been on the list is an entirely different argument but he is still guilty of taking a banned substance.

 

[Hacker Khan]

Whether there was enough of the dodgy substance in it or not is irrelevant. It was on the banned substance list and he took it. Whether it should have been on the list is an entirely different argument but he is still guilty of taking a banned substance.

Excellent post

 

[Blue in Munich]

he admitted taking it

So did Calcavecchia; why the different treatment?

Whether there was enough of the dodgy substance in it or not is irrelevant. It was on the banned substance list and he took it. Whether it should have been on the list is an entirely different argument but he is still guilty of taking a banned substance.

Was it on the banned list? The lawsuit points out that there are two versions of this substance. It infers that the biologically active one is on the banned list. What Singh has admitted taking is the biologically inactive version, the one found in milk, which it appears was not on the banned list. Did I mention that Mark Calcavecchia got a friendly word in his ear for the same thing that Singh was treated as a pariah for.

If this was football related, this would be the own goal of the decade.

 

[Riverdale]

why is he a cheat? do you think that no other golfer has taken dieting supplements or had some help with their muscle development,how many take beta blockers or some other medication,some have even had cortisone or other pain relief injected mid rounds so as to finish,so they are all cheats and should be banned,is having a whisky to help calm the nerves an aid to the player and thus giving him an advantage cheating,chose your words wisely my friend.

Regardless of this incident, he was caught cheating in 1985 and banned.

http://www.golfspelledbackwards.com/2013/01/the-vijay-singh-cheating-incident.html

Once a cheat, always a cheat.