Dan Olsen Does Back Flip Over Tiger Woods ‘Banned’ Accusations.

Dan Olsen, a little known former PGA Tour pro, has done a complete back-flip over accusations Tiger Woods is absent from the game as he’s currently on suspension from the Tour for using banned drugs.

Olsen, 48, is believed to have made the comments on a Michigan radio show at the weekend. “I heard he’s on a month’s suspension … it’s kind of a strong witness. It’s a credible person who is telling me this,” Olsen said

Olsen said the revelations came from a current Tour player, although it seems that they arrived to him second-hand. “It’s not testosterone, but it’s something else,” Olsen said. “I’ll be looked at as just some crazy f*** nobody making accusations about Tiger.”

No-name former PGA Tour pro Dan Olsen does a back flip over accusations labelled at Tiger Woods.

No-name former PGA Tour pro Dan Olsen does a back flip over accusations labelled at Tiger Woods.

Well the 48-year old could not have put it better with Woods management team and the PGA Tour vehemently denying the claims by the Olsen who played in 35 PGA Tour events from 1989 to 2011 and in that time posted a best of just one to-25 finish in 1984, and in his career earned a paltry $137,832.

Mark Steinberg, Woods’s long-time manager, labelled the allegations as ridiculous.

“Over the past year, Woods has withdrawn with an injury three times and now fallen outside of the 70 in the world,” said Steinberg in speaking with ESPN, emphasising that the break is because of the poor state of his game.

“These claims are absolutely, unequivocally and completely false. They are unsourced, unverified and completely ridiculous. The PGA Tour has confirmed that there is no truth to these claims.”

And Ty Votaw, the Tour’s executive vice president, also rubbished Olsen’s claims.

“There is no truth whatsoever to these claims,” Votaw told ESPN. “We categorically deny these allegations.’’

And as pointed out by my colleagues Olsen’s attack even stretch so far to claim that Woods used illegal balls made for him by his equipment manufacturer, Nike. “I would almost bet hadn’t been tested,” Olsen said. “He’s really playing with – I’m not going to say a cheater ball, because he has the help of the establishment, really – but he played a ball that nobody else could play.

“So that combined with his enhancement issues, like having a Canadian blood spinning doctor in his phone, you know? I mean, I think people are starting to openly call it what it is, which is going to be a problem for him.”

Nike issued its own statement to ESPN. “Every ball Tiger has put in competitive play from Nike has been thoroughly tested and approved by the USGA and R&A in accordance with their governing rules,” it read.

Not surprising, Olsen was quickly doing a back flip and saying to the US network: “Everything I said on that radio interview was only my opinion and not based on any first-hand knowledge or facts. I want to make a full retraction to everything I said for the entire radio interview, and I apologise to Tiger, Nike … [PGA Tour commissioner] Tim Finchem and the PGA Tour.”



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