"We have a great group of guys out here calling penalties on themselves, let alone thinking about drug tests."
/Greg Hardwig in the Naples News talked to various Shark Shootout contestants about the idea of drug testing.
"If you were to do that (steroid testing), I think it'd be an interesting thing to do," says Fred Couples. "I know the sponsors would probably support you, but I think the tour would work something out to suspend you. I'm not for it; I'm not against it. I think it would be very interesting.
"The next question would be, do you think anyone's on steroids? I would say I have no idea, which would probably mean that someone is on them."
Okay!
And now for the fantasyland perspective:
"If you suspect someone, yes, but what we have now is probably OK," says Scott Verplank. "If they suspect something's going on, the commissioner has the right to basically levy any penalty he wants, where if we go with some drug testing policy, we're going to have to negotiate through lawyers what the stipulations are going to be, and it's going to be a lot more difficult.
"As long as we have a competent man as commissioner, I think we're probably going to be OK."
And...
"I'd like to think that golfers as a whole are doing the right things out there — to be honest, I don't know a whole lot about that stuff — but I don't think it would be that beneficial anyway," J.J. Henry says. "We have a great group of guys out here calling penalties on themselves, let alone thinking about drug tests."