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Dustin Johnson taking a leave of absence from tour, Suspended for cocaine use

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Lihu Incredible Member

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  Gunther said:

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Originally Posted by zipazoid

Looks like the future father-in-law has chimed in -

https://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nhl-puck-daddy/wayne-gretzky-gave-dustin-johnson--clean-up-or-no-paulina--ultimatum-143352111.html

Thanks for posting. This is more in line with what my perceptions of the Gretzky family have been; quite different from some of the craziness that's been spewed on this thread about them.

Ditto on both counts.

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Golfingdad
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I (strongly) disagree with this statement.  For the sake of this argument, lets assume that he does have a substance abuse problem; in which case, the LAST thing he should be worrying about is PR and

Ernest Jones
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So this is why Taylormade started putting lines on their driver heads? Too soon?

Golfingdad
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Also, to the general "he made a conscious decision" people ... do you know that for sure?  What's a more likely scenario for somebody's first cocaine usage: He was playing Hungry Hungy Hippos w

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I personally have never really been a big of DJ but that's not to say he's tackling his demons and getting help for it. You hear about the rumors of infidelity that were quite well known within the tour circle and it makes you wonder how it didn't get out earlier. Supposedly he broke up a marriage of a current player on tour as well... if it's already been talked about then my apologies.. came into the thread kind of late.

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  saturday said:

I personally have never really been a big of DJ but that's not to say he's tackling his demons and getting help for it. You hear about the rumors of infidelity that were quite well known within the tour circle and it makes you wonder how it didn't get out earlier. Supposedly he broke up a marriage of a current player on tour as well... if it's already been talked about then my apologies.. came into the thread kind of late.

There is hope for him.  Tom Watson had a substance abuse problem (alcohol) and MARRIED another tour player's wife and he did OK.

But then again, what the hell do I know?

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  turtleback said:
There is hope for him.  Tom Watson had a substance abuse problem (alcohol) and MARRIED another tour player's wife and he did OK.

Interesting.. didn't know that!

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Possibly the combination of being a dad and failing drug tests was enough to make him realize he needed help.

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Lihu Incredible Member

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  newtogolf said:

Possibly the combination of being a dad and failing drug tests was enough to make him realize he needed help.


Having my first kid helped me with my mountaineering addiction, it does put a certain perspective on things. :beer:

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  Lihu said:

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Possibly the combination of being a dad and failing drug tests was enough to make him realize he needed help.

Having my first kid helped me with my mountaineering addiction, it does put a certain perspective on things.

Having children definitely puts a lot of things into perspective.  As a parent, you no longer have the luxury being selfish.

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  14ledo81 said:
Having children definitely puts a lot of things into perspective.  As a parent, you no longer have the luxury being selfish.

Yeah, everything centers around them. Lucky for me they play golf. Which, to be honest, is why I'm playing. :-)

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  14ledo81 said:

Having children definitely puts a lot of things into perspective.  As a parent, you no longer have the luxury being selfish.


I wish that were true. I see too many parents who don't change anything when having kids. There have been several stories on the local news in the last year about parents who are doing drugs in their car while their kids are playing in the McD's play area or similar. Selfishness seems to be a disease. Along those lines, kudos to DJ for taking the right road and getting clean. I'm making an assumption that is what he is doing of course.

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  14ledo81 said:
Having children definitely puts a lot of things into perspective.  As a parent, you no longer have the luxury being selfish.

Very true. That's why I choose not to have kids. I like my life without kids too much.

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  colin007 said:

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Having children definitely puts a lot of things into perspective.  As a parent, you no longer have the luxury being selfish.

Very true. That's why I choose not to have kids. I like my life without kids too much.

Aaaahh... but how do you know you would not like it better???

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  14ledo81 said:
Aaaahh... but how do you know you would not like it better???

You're right, I could never be sure. But my cons list is orders of magnitude longer than the pros list for having kids. The other thing is I'm a school teacher. I have plenty of opportunities to have meaningful, rewarding, life affirming interaction with children.

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Lihu Incredible Member

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  colin007 said:

You're right, I could never be sure. But my cons list is orders of magnitude longer than the pros list for having kids.

The other thing is I'm a school teacher. I have plenty of opportunities to have meaningful, rewarding, life affirming interaction with children.

Okay, no need to say any more. :-$

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  colin007 said:

Very true. That's why I choose not to have kids. I like my life without kids too much.

Come on, be honest.  This is part of the reason, but the main reason is simply because you don't gusta poop. ;)

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  Golfingdad said:

Come on, be honest.  This is part of the reason, but the main reason is simply because you don't gusta poop. ;)

I've also heard that those plastic dolls have fertility problems. :whistle:

But then again, what the hell do I know?

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