Golf Central

In the wake of 409-page Mitchell Report lifting the lid on drug use in baseball last week, the world’s best golfers will have a little light reading themselves over the Christmas period.

A 40-page anti-doping manual has been handed out to players on The PGA Tour and although random testing isn’t formally introduced until the week before The Open in July 2008, unofficial testing begins much earlier in the year.

Tiger Woods claims he’s halfway through reading the report, while Jim Furyk hasn’t got past the first few pages. “It is thick,” said Woods, which is not a very nice thing to say about one of your best mates on tour...