It seems like the right thing to do. Other major sports test for several reasons. Besides, keeping the competition fair, testing for steroids helps protect the players. If I knew that twenty percent of the field was taking steroids and they were playing better golf, I would think of doing it. Even though it is against the law and has harmful side affects. If you know all the players are clean then that temptation is taken away.

At first thought I would say testing tour players for steroid use as being disrespectful to them and the integrity of the game. The game of golf and the PGA Tour has had tremendous growth and strengthened in many ways but certainly not from steroids. The game of golf and The PGA Tours for decades have been recognized as being one of the cleanest of professional sports. However, when one considers the bigger picture of perception in a time when some professional athletes are tainting themselves, their achievements and more importantly the reputation of their sport it only makes good sense for the tour to adopt a drug testing policy to take the mystery out of any speculation of steroid use by
individual players and maintaining their reputation of playing by the rules.