Just under a year after Gary Player's remarks at the Open Championship where he claimed he knew of golfers using performance enhancing drugs, the P.G.A. Tour begins its random drug testing policy. 

Jean Van de Velde, European Tour board member who is best known for his epic, gruesome, legendary, and pathetic triple-bogey seven on the 18th hole at the 1999 Open Championship, urged this "proactive" approach. 

I do not disagree with testing, although I don't see any reason to take steroids in a game where muscle and ligament flexibility is so crucial. 

It is the finer points of the policy I disagree with, such as testing for the more "recreational" drugs.  Golf is a recreational sport which places players away from home for the majority of the season.  One can only play ping pong for so long, how else are they supposed to spend their evenings?