The organisation responsible for anti-doping in sport has refused to criticise the recent decision to delay drug testing at The Open until next year.
Organiser The Royal & Ancient (R&A) Club announced earlier this week that it will wait until 2009 to introduce the measures, due to concerns that not enough has been done to educate players about drug testing.
A spokesperson for the World Anti-Doping Agency (Wada) told BBC Sport that each of the professional golf tours should operate with the same set of rules regarding drugs, before expressing sympathy with the R&A''s position.
"We recognise that proper education of the players is important so that they are fully informed of the dangers and consequences of doping as well as the rules," a Wada spokesperson stated.
"The R&A has been a driving force for the implementation of anti-doping programmes in golf and we expect that it will implement testing soon."
Drug-taking in golf has developed into a controversial issue since Gary Player claimed last year that the presence of illegal substances in the sport was "a fact".
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