Tiger Woods' Body: Was HGH a Factor?

Long before the first mistress, long before The New York Times brought us Dr. Anthony Galea, we watched Tiger Woods go from a skinny college kid to a thin professional golfer.

Then he began transforming.

Tiger got bigger—a lot bigger. Didn't seem like that long before he was stretching the sleeves of his golf shirts.

I was playing golf two years ago with a Tampa-based physician who plays the game well and is familiar with the evolution of Woods' body shape.

I asked the doc: "Do you think Tiger's ever taken any HGH?"

His answer came quick and without hesitation:

"Absolutely, positively, 100 percent yes."

His observation came as no surprise.

We all thought Tiger got real big, real fast.

So here's the question:

Could Tiger Woods have possibly experimented with HGH?

The Times story has linked Woods to Galea, though it was for a "blood-spinning" procedure to speed the healing of his surgically-repaired knee.

"Dr. Galea said Mr. Woods was referred to him by the golfers' agents at Cleveland-based International Management Group, who were alarmed at the slow pace of Mr. Woods' rehabilitation after knee surgery in June, 2008," the Times article states.

Yes, nothing related to HGH.

Do you think the subject could have come up when Galea visited Woods?

If you've seen pictures of Galea, he looks very young for a 50-year-old man.

Galea admits he's an HGH user.

But if Woods ever thought about HGH or tried HGH, it came long before that visit.

Would Woods consider gaining an edge in a sport that did not test for such substances until recently?

Would Tiger Woods cheat?

Ask yourself that question.