After I told one of my regular sports partners I had been covering the story of the Memphis pro golfer suspended by the PGA Tour for doping violations, he looked at me and smiled, “You know where I can get some testosterone?” He was kidding, I think.
As one of the PGA’s attorneys said in court last week, professional athletes are held to high standards for the integrity of the game.
“When you become a professional athlete you don’t always get to do everything the man on the street gets to do,” said Rich Young, a lawyer in Colorado Springs who has worked on the Floyd Landis case and other major doping suspensions.
If, as a weekend warrior, you could take drugs to boost your strength, speed your recovery, improve your time, or calm your nerves, would you do it? I’m not so sure.
