A Sign of the Times: Golf Implements Drug Policy
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Golf begrudgingly joins the new world of sport when leaders from its most influential organizations sign off on an anti-doping policy.
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Director of National Drug Control Policy John Walters is launching a new campaign urging teens to âsteer clear of pot.â. illegal drug can impair drivers just as much as drinking alcohol.
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Atlanta - In an unprecedented move, a golf club here has been fined $90 000 (R505 813) by city authorities for refusing to provide the partners of gay members with the same rights afforded to spouses.
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There are people who put their lives on the line every day they go to work. Phil Mickelson apparently places golfers in that category -- at least when it comes to the US Open.
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The Champions Tour will follow the PGA's policy on steroids and other performance-enhancing drugs.
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NORTON, Massachusetts  - The PGA Tour expects to have formulated a comprehensive anti-doping policy by the end of this year ready for implementation in 2008.
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Golfâs caretakers seem complacent with the sport the way it is: safely suburban, affluently anchored. The private politics of the United States Golf Association say so.
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Golf ultimately is defined by winning and losing. The year will be remembered in the record books for Tiger Woods missing the cut in a major for the first time in his career, then rebounding to win the next two and finishing the year with six straight victories on the PGA Tour. Phil Mickelson slipped his arms into a green jacket at the Masters, then buried his head in his hands at Winged Foot after a colossal collapse at the U.S. Open.
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Midway through Friday's Ryder Cup matches at Oakland Hills, English golf fan Sean Warden began to wonder: Was it tee time, or tea time?
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Allen Doyle is starting to feel comfortable on the golf course again even if it doesn't look that way.
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CROMWELL, Conn. -- Changing his stance, PGA commissioner Tim Finchem is calling on golf to come up with a universal policy to test for performance-enhancing drugs.
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LA JOLLA, Calif. â PGA Tour Commissioner Tim Finchem was at Torrey Pines on Wednesday and outlined the tourâs drug-testing program, which will commence in July.
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CROMWELL, Conn. -- There were professional golfers on hand, the sunlight was pouring down, and Eddie Carbone had on a shirt and tie, so in many ways everything seemed in place yesterday.
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Phil Mickelson is a changed man. He's altered the long-standing perception he couldn't win a major, and his latest deviation finds him switching equipment just before golf's pre-eminent team event.
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When the Ryder Cup came to The Country Club in Brookline in 1999, crowds gathering to watch the world's best golfers created traffic snarls. Controlling all those people was a huge undertaking, as spectators responded to their golf heroes with awe bordering on the deific. There were Sergio Garcia and Paul Lawrie, striding the emerald fairways, not a hundred feet ...
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NORTON -- Golf isn't only about Tiger Woods. There were other players out there at TPC Boston yesterday swinging in the September sun, trying to establish their own reputations.
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For all the talk of bonding through bus trips and ping-pong, and for all the efforts to make sure the chaps are attired with the same colored socks, shirts, and sweater vests, golf remains the ultimate individual game that revolves around distinct personalities.