"They're acting like he went around the corner and said, 'Shoot me up.'"

Hank Gola talks to Doug Barron on the status of his case against the tour and contrasts it with Tiger's use of drugs and doctors under indictment. The juxtaposition of Barron's case and Tiger's vices is fascinating.

Barron contends both drugs were prescribed by his physicians and were necessary. He contends that he was weaning himself off the beta blockers, which he had taken since he was 18 for anxiety caused by a heart condition, and had taken a final one-time testosterone shot a month before the random test at the St.Jude. He had been on testosterone supplements since he was 36, when he visited his doctor because of low energy.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration estimates that four million to five million American men suffer from low testosterone. The condition is also a common side effect of extended steroid use.

The PGA Tour contends that Barron's testosterone levels were within normal ranges when he first applied for a medical waiver.

"He was told very clearly, 'You are not to use testosterone,'" Rick Young, an attorney representing the Tour, said at a hearing last November, calling testosterone "the granddaddy of all steroids."

The tour really needs to flesh out their position beyond, "we told you not to do it." In a PR battle, that's not a winning position. Particularly when Barron has doctors on his side, who, by all accounts, were licensed to be practicing in his hometown, unlike the HGH-loving doctor of a certain famous, pill-popping 14-time major champion.

Now, here's where it could get really awkward for the tour. Barron is hoping to find out via discovery how many other golfers have received medical exceptions for using banned substances for low testosterone. Barron attorney Jeff Rosenblum also wonders what else the discovery might turn up about you-know-who.

"I don't want to make this about Tiger Woods but one of the things I'm curious about is you hear all these rumors," Rosenblum says. "Golf has changed because of Tiger. Did they develop this program because of Tiger? One of the banned substances you'd expect to see there is pain pills. I don't know if it's there.

"I want to know how many times did they test Tiger when he was coming off his knee injury? Was he on some sort of hormonal supplement? My guess is they're saying, 'That's Tiger Woods. Don't go near him.' I may be wrong."