John Daly calls PGA Tour’s drug-testing policy ‘a joke’

John Daly is not a big fan of the PGA Tour’s drug-testing policy, and he let his expletive-riddled opinions fly on his Sirius XM PGA Tour radio show on Tuesday.

Daly, who claimed to know he would be tested after Friday’s second round of this week’s Valspar Championship, called the tour’s anti-doping efforts “a joke” and far from random.

Here’s some of what Daly had to say (listener discretion advised):

“I know when I’m getting drug tested,” the two-time major winner said on Hit It Hard with John Daly. “That’s sad. They all know when we’re getting drug tested. And for you dopers and all that s**t on the PGA Tour, you know you’re getting drug tested, you got it made! You got it made! And I’m tired of it.”

Daly claimed he would be tested as soon as he finished Friday’s second round at Innisbrook, according to ESPN.com.

“I’m gonna play at 1:50 on Friday so they’re [going to] get me about 6:52, 7 o’clock,” he said. “This’ll be the fifth or sixth year in a row I’m going to get drug tested [at Valspar]. It’s the biggest bulls**t, I’m sorry, I’m gonna say it, fine me. I don’t care what you do, fix ‘em right now, fine me, but I’m tired of it.

“It’s not random; it’s big a joke,” Daly continued. “This whole drug testing is a joke.”

Daly, clearly on a roll, and likely with no pun intended, added, “I’m pissed ‘cause I know I’m going to get drug tested no matter where I go.”

A tour spokesperson did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but, according to GolfChannel.com’s Rex Hoggard, the tour’s testing staff regularly tests players after they finish signing their cards in the scoring trailer. Phil Mickelson, for example, was tapped after his first-round 74 last week at Doral and J.B. Holmes (62) was not, according to Hoggard.

The rants by Daly -- who, according to Hoggard (who cited a 2010 tour report), had been fined some $100,000, suspended five times, and put on probation six times -- also came on the heels of a claim last month by a journeyman golfer that Tiger Woods had been suspended for failing a drug test. Woods’ agent and tour officials vehemently denied the accusation and the player ended up recanting his charges.

Woods, by the way, told Hoggard during the 2014 Quicken Loans National that, while testing officials, who reportedly randomly test players at least once per season, were doing their jobs that week that he was not one of those asked to submit a sample.

“I just hadn’t been tested all year,” said Woods.