Golf Digest’s cover boy this issue is Lance Armstrong, the disgraced American cyclist who won seven straight Tour de France’s from 1999-2005 only to be stripped of all of them for testing positive for doping.
Despite being accused of doping throughout his career, Armstrong did not admit to it until 2013,the year after he was found guilty by the the US Anti-Doping Agency. After the report came out, all of Armstrong’s sponsors dropped him – totaling $75 million in yearly earnings.
In the article, Armstrong says he plays 250 rounds a year and has a 10 handicap.
That’s all well and good, but he almost admits to gambling heavily on those rounds and claims that cycling had no code of honor, as golf does, an dhtat he would never consider cheating.
“You might consider me the last guy to have anything to say about cheating, but golf is different,” Armstrong said. “I love adhering to a code of honor that we in cycling didn’t have. If I moved my ball in the rough and got caught, I wouldn’t just regret it, I’d be heartbroken forever. When I think about reform in cycling, I think about golf.”
Forgive us if we double check Armstrong’s scorecard next time we play a round with him.
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