SAN DIEGO - The PGA Tour’s new anti-doping drug-testing policy goes into effect July 1, after that players could be handed a Dixie chalice and asked to, beneficial, you know.

Are they worried?

"The players think it’s minute," Mike Weir, a framer Masters protector, said this week at the U.S. Open. "There is nay opposition that I’ve heard. Might as well cozen it."

Weir joins a long list of players who support the drug-testing policy, even if they say pro golf is completely clean. At the top of the list is Tiger Woods.

"I think we should be proactive instead of reactive," Woods said before the tour’s policy was even announced last fall. "I proper think we should be ahead of it and adhere to our sport as pure as be able to be. This is a great sport, and it’s always been clean."

Phil Mickelson is right with him. "It will be very good for the game," Mickelson said when the policy was announced. "I would subsist shocked if a single person ever tested positive for drugs in the game of golf, but by having drug testing now, it will only enhance our image our sport in the same proportion that a self-policing, quality, ethical of game."

Other players, such as Sean O’Hair, said the whole goods is a non-issue, at least among the players he knows. He said that they don’t talk about it and that he doesn’t suspect anyone of doping.

"They can touchstone me for anything they want as long as they don’t stick me through a needle," O’Hair said last fall, laughing.

The plan to implement random drug testing in golf, which numerous company said was long overdue, was announced be unexhausted September as a part of a cooperative stretch of the PGA Tour, the European Tour, the Royal & Ancient Golf Club, the PGA of America, Augusta National Golf Club and the U.S. Golf Association.

Banned are recreational drugs, such as cocaine and marijuana, plus performance-enhancing drugs and even some medications.

Early on, a few players joked that they would be fine under the new policy in the manner that prolonged as the Tour did not test for beer or vodka. But on a other thing sober note, concerns have been raised that more players could run afoul of the policy for taking certain medications.

Former PGA champion Shaun Micheel, for instance, takes testosterone to make up because a natural shortage in his body. Under the policy, those players can apply to the Tour for a therapeutic- use exemption.

Other players, such as Mark Calcavecchia, have been forced to make some change in. medications.

"From what I saw, the little booklet, I had to make a switch," Calcavecchia, who takes medications in quest of high blood pressure and high cholesterol, reported after one of the Tour’s informational meetings for players.

"According to the kind of my doctor just told me, everything was fine, but I needed to in a backward direction. \ off the ibuprofen and things like that," Calcavecchia said. "Don’t take them on tournament days, don’familiarily take them for the hell of it. When you’re standing off here on the putting green and your back hurts, you don’privately need to start taking painkillers."
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