Tiger Woods: puttering with steroids?

You knew the question had to come up considering his burgeoning biceps -- is the Tiger on the juice?  The Sporting News asks the question:

...Which brings us to Tiger Woods, where every conversation about golf seems to end up these days. With good reason. He comes into this Masters as such a prohibitive favorite that bookies are taking even money bets on him against the entire field.

Unlike Casper, Woods never had a problem with weight, but his body seems to have undergone a metamorphosis of another kind in recent years. Once as thin as a 1-iron, his upper body now ripples with muscles Mickelson could only dream about, and his Popeye arms threaten to split open his short sleeves with every swing.

In his early years as a pro, Woods wore shirts so baggy that Charles Howell III once said he could make four outfits out of them (left, above). These days he looks as if each specially selected Nike original either started life two sizes too small or was accidentally put in the hot water wash (right, belong).

If Woods was playing for the San Francisco Giants, the only logical conclusion would be that he's juiced. The U.S. Attorney's office would have long ago called him before a grand jury and tried to get him to not only confess, but rat out Mickelson as his supplier at the same time.

Such is the suspicion of our times, where even gentlemen golfers don't get a break. Woods doesn't help himself when he plays coy about his extensive workout program, but no one seriously thinks he is using anything stronger than his new Gatorade drink. Woods himself is one of the few players who have been publicly supportive of the tour's effort to implement drug testing.

Quite a coy way of bringing up the issue.  Bulging biceps?  Good workout program?  Probably.  Feathering out with age?  Sure.  Suspicion of juicing?  In 2008, anything goes...

 

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[Phil]

Funny how he looks much less 'tight' since his return from 'knee surgery.'

http://njfrogman.blogspot.com/2009/03/tiger-woods-not-as-fit-as-he-once-was.html

[Bob]

If you watched Tiger all from the start of his career you would assume he was on steroids. His anger on the course and the quality of it reeks the juice. VJ Sing is another. Both VJ and Tiger had special eye surgery. That is the length they are willing to go.

Choi used to be a weight lifter. Tiger and VJ have caddie’s that were trainers before. Both from Australia.

Tiger is getting out driven by Phil. By a lot.

Tiger is smart. He did a commercial showing him older playing himself when he was younger. The punch line was he was out driving himself when he was older. With the equipment changes so do I.

Derrick Sanderson was on steroids. You think Bobby Orr’s knees gave out before anyone else for no reason.

There is a new steroid era. The go to a different country for the off season.

Anyone think that steroids were not prescribed for Tiger’s knee operation. Look at Tiger in Aug. He will say “Golf is not my life now that I have children. I just don’t have the drive to train like I used to. I am going to play a limited schedule to prepare for the majors.”