Tiger Woods insists he is all in favour of the new drug testing regime to be introduced on to the US PGA Tour from July next year.
World number one sees no problems with anti-doping programme
Tiger Woods insists he is all in favour of the new drug testing regime to be introduced on to the US PGA Tour from July next year.
Many feel it is an unnecessary step for the game, but the world number one has no problem with the programme and feels it can only prove of benefit.
"I think it will help," Woods said of drug testing. "I certainly don't think it can hurt the game."
Players will be expected to get themselves up to speed with all the rules and regulations regarding the testing and, as such, have been sent a 41-page anti-doping manual.
Woods admits there is an awful lot to take in ahead of the July deadline but is more than comfortable with the fact that players will have to make themselves available anywhere at anytime without notice for testers.
"It's unbelievable how thick this thing is," the world number one said of the manual. "It's a lot to get through. I haven't gotten to the drug list yet."
Fine with me
Of the testing procedures, he added: "It's from the first day to whenever, for however long you play, wherever they want - and that's fine with me."
However, a number of his fellow pros seem less comfortable with the enforced changes with Jim Furyk admitting there was little chance of him ploughing through all of the manual.
"It was like 41 pages," he said. "I got to page 2 on the Blackberry and realized there were 39 more pages to go. Forty-one pages of that? I don't think I can do it.
"I may read if it I feel it's necessary. For me, the idea is to make sure we go to the workshops and have all the people in place to help us out."
Furyk stated that for him, like many of his peers, it would be the issue of prescription drugs that proved the most tricky to decipher initially.
He said one health agency sends players a list of every prescription they have had filled for the year.
"I'll take those in from the last couple of years and say, 'Here's what I was prescribed. Is there an issue? Do I need a release?' " he adedd. "Other than taking prescriptions for allergies, or if my neck flares up, an Alleve, then I'll be fine."
