LPGA Panned For Drug Testing Sorenstam After Final Round
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LPGA Receives Criticism For Drug
Testing Sorenstam At Last Tourney |
Golfer Annika Sorenstam was "ordered to report for drug testing" following the second round of the LPGA ADT Championship Friday, the final round of her career on the tour, even though Sorenstam said that she "had been tested two weeks ago," according to Steve Elling of CBSSPORTS.com. When Sorenstam first "mentioned it after the round, with no small amount of contempt, everybody initially thought she was joking." Sorenstam: "I have no idea, but they're not going to let me go. Yeah, I guess you get tested every other week now." LPGA General Counsel Jill Pilgrim, who "handles the testing," said that the LPGA has "no choice but to screen any player whose number comes up." Elling wrote, "Leave it to the LPGA to wreck what should have been a day in which nothing but rose pedals were tossed at her feet, not plastic testing beakers with screw-tops and clinical labels" (CBSSPORTS.com, 11/21). Mike McGee, Sorenstam’s fiancé, said, “It’s pathetic. I don’t know what they are trying to prove. It sounds too funny to be random to me. What a way to ruin a good day” (“Golf Central,” Golf Channel, 11/21). GOLF WORLD's Ron Sirak wrote, "To say this was a bizarre goodbye to one of the best ever to play the women's game would be an understatement of significant magnitude." Sorenstam: "I would have been fine if they had done it yesterday, not tell me when I was walking off the 18th green of my last tournament and trying to enjoy the moment with my family." But Pilgrim said, "The numbers come up, and you test the players whose numbers come up" (GOLFWORLD.com, 11/21). In L.A., Mike James noted the LPGA will hold Sorenstam's $8,000 check from the tournament "until the test results come back." James: "A nice going-away gift for a player who was the face of the tour for well over a decade" (LATIMES.com, 11/21).
CALIFORNIA HERE WE COME: In San Diego, Tod Leonard reports San Diego City Golf Manager Jon Maddern confirmed that "preliminary talks between IMG and the city have recently taken place in an effort to bring" the 2009 LPGA Samsung World Championship, scheduled for September 17-20, to San Diego. Maddern said that he has "told IMG the September dates would work on either of the Torrey Pines courses, North and South." Maddern added that IMG has "yet to specify which course it would like to use" (SAN DIEGO UNION-TRIBUNE, 11/25).
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