Singh to sue PGA Tour

Former world number one Vijay Singh is suing the PGA Tour for damages, despite being cleared of a doping offence last week after admitting to using deer antler spray.

Singh admitted in January to using the spray, which contains small amounts of IGF-1 (Insulin-like Growth Factor-1), a growth hormone on the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) and PGA Tour list of prohibited substances.

The three-time major winner told Sports Illustrated he used the spray "every couple of hours...every day" and was "looking forward to some change in my body."

Although he had not failed a test - and no test even exists - that was treated as a violation of the Tour's anti-doping program and Singh, according to the lawsuit, was suspended for 90 days on February 19.

However, after he appealed the Tour contacted WADA who said that "it no longer considers the use of deer antler spray to be prohibited unless a positive test results."

The lawsuit, filed in New York, said the Tour's actions left Singh "humiliated, ashamed, ridiculed, scorned and emotionally distraught" and added: "Singh seeks damages for the PGA Tour's reckless administration and implementation of its Anti-Doping Program.

"After exposing Singh, one of the PGA Tour's most respected and hardest working golfers, to public humiliation and ridicule for months, and forcing Singh to perform the type of scientific analyses and review that the PGA Tour was responsible for performing, the PGA Tour finally admitted that the grounds on which it sought to impose discipline were specious and unsupportable."