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Golfer suspended after admitting he took PEDs

PGA Tour player Scott Stallings is doing stuff no professional athletes who take performance-enhancing drugs actually do: He took them accidentally, then, despite not failing a drug test, turned himself into the tour. Someone from baseball should explain how these things ordinarily work.

According to the Golf Channel, Stallings is just the third player on the PGA Tour to be suspended for performance-enhancing drugs, and his 90-day suspension is in effect starting Tuesday:

The three-time Tour winner never failed a drug test, but after suffering from fatigue and being advised by his doctor to take DHEA, an anabolic agent that is the precursor to testosterone production and banned by the Tour, he realized he’d violated the policy and turned himself in which is tantamount to a positive test under the anti-doping program.