PGA Player Doug Barron is First to Fail New Drug Test November 15
Golf is one sport that performance enhancing drugs don’t seem to play a part in and with the PGA’s new drug policy (instated last year) they’re out to make sure it stays that way. However Doug Baron has failed to pass a drug test and subsequently has been banned for the next year of play. It’s a surprising result seeing as Barron hasn’t been playing a consistent PGA tour schedule since 2006 and only managed to compete in four of the games in this year’s Nationwide tour.
While the tour declined further comment the 40 year old golfer apologized for his actions through them saying that he’d never intended to gain an unfair advantage over other players. As is standard the PGA only announced the positive result and the length of time Barron would undergo suspension as a result. The finer details of the incident and the exact drugs abused are details the PGA chooses to withhold. The announcement came November 2nd after the drug test results came in.
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