"Then someone confused equipment advances in golf with juicing as an explanation for soaring drive lengths."

Troy Phillips in the Star Telegram gives PGA Tour execs a column that'll turn them into bobbleheads this morning, doing a nice job of piecing together how drug testing came about but naively assuming that it's the silliest "witch hunt" ever.

Yes, the dumbest, most unnecessary witch hunt in sports is finally here.

For more than a year, it has been forthcoming. It was inevitable in 2006 when Woods issued a challenge that golf should test to validate its cleanliness in the sports era of steroid/performance-enchancer cheats.

Then and now, golf had no steroid issues. No regular drug issues have surfaced. Aside from John Daly’s massive alcohol consumption and consequential stupefying behavior, even booze seems barely a concern on the Tour, if at all.

So, how did golf get here?

Maybe it started when baseball, cycling and track and field scandals, as well as national drug surveys indicating widespread steroid use among high school athletes, became a high-profile issues in sports.

Then someone confused equipment advances in golf with juicing as an explanation for soaring drive lengths.

Someone? I think that would be the Commissioner, actually.