Monday, November 2, 2009

Doug Barron is 1st to violate PGA Tour drug policy (AP)

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (AP)—Doug Barron, a 40-year-old journeyman who lost his journeying bill threesome eld ago, became the prototypal contestant to be suspended by the PGA Tour for testing constructive for a performance-enhancing substance.

Barron was directly suspended for one year, the PGA Tour said Monday. He played eight flooded seasons on the tour, with his prizewinning finish a tie for ordinal at the Byron Nelson Championship in 2006.

“I would like to apologize for some perverse perception of the journeying of its players resulting from my suspension,” Barron said in a evidence released by the tour. “I want my man journeying members and the fans to undergo that I did not intend to acquire an unfair combative plus or compound my performance while on tour.”

The journeying announced the support about two hours before the World Golf Hall of Fame induction ceremony. The journeying said it would hit no boost comment, and Barron’s agent did not directly convey a call.

Under its doping policy, the journeying announces a support but does not disclose what substance a contestant used. The journeying did not move random testing until July 2008, which includes its second-tier Nationwide Tour.

Barron played a flooded Nationwide schedule terminal year, making only five cuts in 17 starts to acquire $33,446. He played four times on the Nationwide Tour this year, and his unaccompanied PGA Tour move came at the St. Jude Classic, where he missed the cut.

The terminal time Barron made programme was in 2006 at what is now the Transitions Championship outside Tampa, Fla., where he distant his shirt to play a effort out of the liquid on the 16th mess at Innisbrook. He unclothed an ample belly on television, drawing jokes from players.

Barron’s most recent tournament was in September at the Mexico Open, co-sanctioned by the Nationwide Tour, where he uncomprehensible the cut.


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