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Doug Barron has been suspended from golf for a year by the PGA Tour after failing a drugs test, making him him the first player to be banned under the Tour’s anti-doping programme, which it launched last July . The 40 year old apologised for his offence and for “any negative perception of the Tour or its players resulting from my suspension”.

He went on to declare, “I did not intend to gain an unfair competitive advantage or enhance my performance while on Tour”, though I find that fairly hard to believe. I mean, why else would you take performance enhancing drugs if not to enhance your performance? To be fair on Doug, the PGA Tour hasn’t revealed what the drug was, or even if it was a performance-enhancer. So, in effect, the poor guy could have been banned simply for getting stoned the night before.

Still, there is rarely a good reason to cheat to win. Having said that, looking at the way Doug Barron’s career has been going lately...I can’t say I blame him if he did!




No need for golf clothes: how else could Doug Barron maintain his athletic physique, if not with the help of performance enhancing drugs?

Overnight rains have saturated Annandale Golf Club, making the course unplayable and delaying the start of the first round of the Viking Classic PGA Tour – either the best or worse named of all tours, I can’t decide. Of course it’s named after its sponsor, Viking Range Corporation, but even so it’s about the least ‘golfing’ name possible! I mean, I love golf even more than I love my wife, but even I can’t imagine a Viking wielding a set of clubs, let alone fitting into most golf clothes… Do they make golf clothes out of oxen hide? Come to think about it, I can’t imagine a Viking being too bothered about kitchen appliances either – so it’s a bad name all around!

Anyway, the point of the matter is that Ricky Barnes will have to wait until Friday to commence winning the $3,700,000 purse offered by the Viking. Unless of course, Mr. Flesch has anything to say about it – it’s a tough on to call for sure. To be honest, with 80% chance of rain on Friday, it’s not even looking likely that it’ll get underway by the weekend! Still, we can only hope.