AKRON, Ohio – After recent findings from the World Anti-Doping Agency raised more questions about the possible role of performance-enhancing drugs in golf, International Golf Federation vice president Ty Votaw defended golf as a “clean sport.”
WADA recently released its 2014 test findings from a number of Olympic sports and found a total of eight “adverse analytical findings” among 507 samples from golfers. While the sample size is a fraction of some other sports like soccer and cycling, golf’s 1.6 percent rate of positive tests trailed only equestrian and weightlifting among the 21 sports tested.
The tests included AAFs for cortico-steroids, for which the PGA Tour does not currently test, and diuretics.