PGA Tour Commissioner, Tim Finchem has promised a resoultion ‘soon’ on the ‘Deer Antler Spray’ controversy that enguled the golf world last month.

Triple Major winning, Vijay Singh is facing a lengthy ban from the Tour are admitting to using deer antler spray with components of the spray banned on all of the world’s golf tours.

However in Singh’s defence he pleaded he was not aware the spray contained banned substances.

Vijay Singh ‘Deer antler spray’ decision due soon says PGA Tour Commissioner.

Many players, including fellow Masters champion Mark O’Meara, who is a good friend of Singh, indicated ignorance was no defence of the rules and should be banned.

However the controversy took a humourous turn when former Open Champion, Sir Bob Charles announced the next day he had been taking tablets daily for 20 years that contained a deer antler substance.

“We expect a decision relatively soon,” said Finchem.

“We are in our process, and you will be aware under our doping rules and unlike our conduct rules, we are required to announce any suspension eminating for PEDs (Performance Enhancing Drugs) or any other violations of the doping code, and if that is forthcoming we will announce it.”

And Finchem was quizzed, with golf to return to the Olympics in less that four years time in 2016, whether the Federation of Tours will adopt the same doping code as currently being operated by most other Olympic sports and particulary as it related to blood testing that is presently not carried out on golfers.

“As it the case in a number of other sports, once the pool of (Olympic Games) players is identified at a certain date, maybe twelve months or 10 months out, and this is the pool where the 120 players will come from, those players at that point in time are subject to all the rules and regulations of the WADA (World Anti-Doping Agency) approach.

“That is certainly the understanding we have with Wader.  There are a couple of distinctions between that and what we do but that’s the way it would work.

“Players would be notified at that point in time that they need to realise that if you intend, once you are selected as a player and even before that since you are in the pool, you will be subjected.

“A player has the option at that point of saying and announce that I am not going play in the Olympics but we don’t anticipate that happening.”

In August 2011, the Tour warned players about using deer antler spray with its prohibited ingredient after veteran players Mark Calcavecchia and Ken Green had both endorsed SWATS’ so-called “Ultimate Spray”.

Singh, a 49-year-old who is renowned for his workaholic approach to the game, told Sports Illustrated he used the spray “every couple of hours … every day,” slept under the beam ray and had put chips on his ankles, waist and shoulders.

Since the PGA Tour’s anti-doping programme was launched, American journeyman Doug Barron is the only player who has been suspended for a violation. Barron, then 40, was banned for one year in November 2009 for taking a performance-enhancing drug.