Golf Channel · Aug 5, 2015
Votaw defends golf as a 'clean sport'
AKRON, Ohio – After recent findings from the World Anti-Doping Agency raised more questions about the possible role of performance-enhancing drugs in golf, International Golf Federation vice president Ty Votaw defended golf as a “clean sport.”
WADA recently released its 2014 test findings from a number of Olympic sports and found a total of eight “adverse analytical findings” among 507 samples from golfers. While the sample size is a fraction of some other sports like soccer and cycling, golf’s 1.6 percent rate of positive tests trailed only equestrian and weightlifting among the 21 sports tested.