Tiger using pain killers? legit?

[Wi-Golfer]

Originally Posted by warbirdlover

He probably took a couple Advil...

As Jeff said essentially that's all he had. The announcers stated it wasn't anything prescription so no narcotics were involved. Much ado about nothing on this topic.

[IrishGolfer]

If half of us were tested we'd never make it off the first tee.

OK, so he is a professional golfer, it's a valid point, but I don't see how painkillers would help him hole more putts!

[irishtiger]

Originally Posted by SilverUberXeno

I think a drug that is taken to return a person to their normal state is dandy. Tiger is not normally coming off of knee surgery.

I agree, there's a difference between pain killing and "performance enhancing"

[figjam]

I would imagine if they banned pain killers and anti inflammatories they would struggle to get a field together (especially the Seniors tour). I remember a line from Fuzzy that the only thing keeping him on the course are Advil's and vodka. And anyone who's ever had any knee problems would know that the painkillers would only be there to dull the pain whilst walking between shots. Swinging on a ruptured ACL and stress fractures of the tibia would be a little more than regular pankillers league could handle.

[Sandpiper3]

Speaking of performance enhancing, can someone PLEASE explain to me how pot is a performance enhancing drug? ALA the canadian olympic snowboarder who got his gold medal taken away years ago for smoking weed...

Tiger popped some T3's or extra strength painkillers, nothing "illegal".

[King Par]

I've never done weed or any drug for that matter, but a few friends that do, for some reason they don't get out of breath as fast. Or so they say. Not sure what the true effect is on the body though.