According to an article in this weeks Sports Illustrated Vijay Singh has been named as one of several athletes to use a banned substance from a two-man company called S.W.A.T.S. -- Sports with Alternatives to Steroids!
Christopher Key and Mitch Ross, run their company from a gym in Alabama. They sell products such as deer antler spray and hologram chips that they claim will help athletes perform better on the field.
The deer
antler spray contains IGF-1, which SI describes as a "natural, anabolic
hormone that stimulates muscle growth."
It is
also a banned substance by all major pro sports leagues.
Despite
warnings from the PGA Tour that the deer antler spray was a banned substance,
SI reports that Singh ordered several products from S.W.A.T.S. last November.
(Vijay
Singh, however, remains a vocal supporter. In November, Singh paid Ross $9,000
for the spray, chips, beam ray and powder additive -- making him one of the few
athletes who is compensating S.W.A.T.S. He says he uses the spray banned by the
PGA "every couple of hours . . . every day," sleeps with the beam ray
on and has put chips on his ankles, waist and shoulders. "I'm looking
forward to some change in my body," Singh says. "It's really hard to
feel the difference if you're only doing it for a couple of months.")
Players were warned about the deer antler spray back in 2011 after Mark Calcavecchia was told by the PGA Tour to stop endorsing to stop S.W.A.T.S.'s "Ultimate Spray."
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