Steroids in Golf?

[Chieflongtee]

Are there any steroids in golf? An author from a recent book recently published claims that some golfers use streoids to help stabilize the hands and to control their nerves under pressure. Others claim that additionnal yardage has been obtained by using those substances. Any thoughts.

http://sports.espn.go.com/golf/news/story?id=2239115

[dbleber]

I think John Daly has been on roids for years, and maybe Phil or even Gore. Have you seen the shape of most of these guys? They are either super fat or skinny, will some please feed Charles Howell III! I think Tiger and VJ are the only ones that are in decent shape and VJ is more just fit wear Tiger has more of a muscle thing going on.

[EDSGOLF]

It's very simple.....just test them and we'll find out.

[psniddy]

Are we talking steroids or banned substances? While steroids probably aren't big in golf however golfer may use other substanes such as Sudafed, hockey players used this for years to increase performance

[Chieflongtee]

Nope Psniddy. The name of the book is "Dope strory"(only published in french so far) I'll get you the name of the substance sometime today or tomorrow. It is also used in archery.

[golfgearguy]

Zuback's big enough to question.... Wasn't his old 9-5 as a pharmacist?

[Chieflongtee]

I am not questionning the Long Drive Tour although it is most probably on that tour as well.

[Steelhead]

I'm sure some of them are on some sort of steroid like in any other sport. For some it might give them an edge while training for others it might act as a calming agent. Some athletes will go to great lenghts to acheive success. The only way to know for usre is by third party testing.

[Shivas Irons]

Golfers have used Beta-blockers for years, and with the way pro golf is going - all power - I would be very surprised if, at least some of these young (or even old) pros are not on the juice.

[Nat Williams]

I think John Daly has been on roids for years, and maybe Phil or even Gore.

Phil on steroids? With those watermelons I think it would be more likely that he's taking estrogen pills.

[moochie]

I once read that the highest sport for steroid use was tennis. Not to make the players bigger but to help with their recovery time and eliminate overtraining. Effectively, they can go all out all the time and recover from it. So, it is conceivable that golfers may use them as well.

[Chieflongtee]

Couple years back Korda got caught.
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpag...51C1A96E958260

Funny thing though. The athletes never seem to know....

He said he and his advisers had made exhaustive, but unsuccessful, attempts to find the source of the illegal substance

[dbleber]

Phil on steroids? With those watermelons I think it would be more likely that he's taking estrogen pills.

That was sarcasm, a little bit harder to pick up the computer I guess. C'mon John Daly? I am sure he has used plenty of illegal substances over the years but I don't think it was steroids! I was making a joke regarding the fact that they all have man-boobs which is actually one of the side affects from taking steroids but they are called something else that I can't write on here without getting in trouble.

[Chieflongtee]

That was sarcasm, a little bit harder to pick up the computer I guess. C'mon John Daly? I am sure he has used plenty of illegal substances over the years but I don't think it was steroids! I was making a joke regarding the fact that they all have man-boobs which is actually one of the side affects from taking steroids but they are called something else that I can't write on here without getting in trouble.

Could have been big macroids