{"id":25752,"date":"2019-06-20T15:52:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-20T21:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/53-year-old-pro-golfer-says-you-cant-spell-pga-without-cbd\/"},"modified":"2019-06-20T15:52:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-20T21:52:00","slug":"53-year-old-pro-golfer-says-you-cant-spell-pga-without-cbd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/local-news\/53-year-old-pro-golfer-says-you-cant-spell-pga-without-cbd\/","title":{"rendered":"53-year-old pro golfer says you can\u2019t spell PGA without CBD"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Scott McCarron reacts after his birdie putt on the 18th green during the second round of the Mitsubishi Electric Classic at TPC Sugarloaf on April 20, 2019 in Duluth, Georgia.<\/strong>
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Scott McCarron has discovered a fountain of youth that has him rocketing up the record book of the PGA Tour Champions (formerly the Senior PGA Tour) \u2014 tying the likes of Jack Nicklaus and Arnold Palmer with 10 career wins on the tour for golfers older than 50.<\/p>\n

The secret to success for the only Gen X golfer on the senior circuit with double-digit wins, including a senior major in 2017? Cannabidiol, or CBD, and specifically the products of Colorado-based Functional Remedies.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s no question,\u201d McCarron said when asked if hemp oil has sparked his senior surge. \u201cThere\u2019s kind of a of correlation for me starting the CBD a year-and-a-half ago and just the way I feel now. I don\u2019t feel as run down and as sore when I\u2019m playing.\u201d<\/p>\n

A former regular PGA Tour pro, McCarron, 53, won three times on that circuit and recorded top-10 finishes in three of the four majors, including the Masters. He once ranked as high as 20th in the world. But injuries cost him playing time, and McCarron tried a wide variety of anti-inflammatories to recover and various sleep aids to combat sore, restless nights.<\/p>\n

Nothing really seemed to work. Now he credits hemp-oil products \u2014 in the form of an eyedropper on his tongue or a 20-milligram capsule before bed and a topical roll-on for a sore wrist or elbow \u2014 with transforming his game late in life.<\/p>\n

\u201cI feel like I can play longer, I can practice longer, play week in and week out and not have that soreness that you might have to take a week off because your body needs recovery,\u201d McCarron said. \u201cBecause (the CBD is) helping my sleep, it\u2019s helping my body recover faster and better every night so that I feel good and then I can go ahead and play and perform at a high level.\u201d<\/p>\n

CBD catching on<\/p>\n

Seemingly everyone is getting in on McCarron\u2019s secret on the PGA Tour Champions.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think we\u2019ve got nearly 50 guys on the Champions Tour using CBD oil and using Functional Remedies,\u201d McCarron said. \u201cAnd you\u2019re starting to see a lot of guys on the regular tour. I just heard that Phil Mickelson is chewing a CBD gum all the time while he\u2019s playing for his aches and pains. He\u2019s got that rheumatoid arthritis and obviously (CBD is) helping him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bubba Watson recently announced he uses CBD products, which have been removed from the list of banned substances by the World Anti-Doping Agency. CBD oil has very low levels of tetrahydrocannabinol, the principal psychoactive ingredient in marijuana.<\/p>\n

\u201cInteresting thing about PGA, is that PGA Tour Champions doesn\u2019t drug test, so most players don\u2019t need to worry about it,\u201d said Leland Radovanovic of Powerplant Global Strategies, a national consulting firm focused on the legal cannabis industry. \u201cThe PGA Tour does, but recently raised their nanogram limit for THC to 150 nanogram. I believe it was around 15 nanograms before. They follow (World Anti-Doping Agency\u2019s) rules.\u201d<\/p>\n

Relief worth the gamble<\/p>\n

McCarron says he\u2019s heard more players on the regular tour are willing to roll the dice \u2014 not just on CBD but also on THC.<\/p>\n

\u201cTHC is banned, but the levels are so high you would literally have to smoke pot going into drug testing to have a positive test,\u201d McCarron said. \u201c(The PGA) obviously has drug testing as stringent as the Olympics, so guys were hesitant at first (on CBD oil), but they\u2019ve got 10 or 12 guys that are taking it. The tour just wants to make sure that whatever is in it will not give any positive drug tests. So as of right now, everything seems to be going fantastic with that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Leland points out that Superior, Colorado-based Functional Remedies for the first time sponsored the Rapiscan Systems Classic, a PGA Tour Champions event in southern Mississippi in late March.<\/p>\n

Functional Remedies chief science officer Tim Gordon, who grew up in rural Ohio and moved to Colorado in 1996, has been studying and cultivating hemp for more than 30 years. He says he became more than just passionate about cannabis \u2014 making it his entire career focus \u2014 when he witnessed its transformative healing powers with a friend suffering the effects of chemotherapy.<\/p>\n

Since then, Gordon has seen how regular consumption of CBD oil can help everyone from weekend warriors to professional golfers to ultramarathoners.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to (change) mindsets here to understand cannabis just needs to be used almost like a vitamin \u2014 kind of preventative medicine in a way,\u201d Gordon said. \u201cNot just at the point of injury or treatment, but leading up to your everyday activity \u2026 supplying your body the cannabinoids that you need to be able to recover faster.\u201d<\/p>\n

Beyond golf, Gordon says CDB products are gaining acceptance across the spectrum of sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cScott\u2019s one of nearly 50 folks on the (senior) pro tour who are enjoying the benefits of Functional Remedies products,\u201d Gordon said. \u201cBesides all of those, we\u2019re reaching folks in various pro sports \u2014 anything from cycling to pro weightlifting. Everyone\u2019s seeing the benefits, and it\u2019s driving the demand for education and the demand for change.\u201d<\/p>\n

Colorado Gov. Jared Polis late last month signed a suite of new Colorado cannabis laws, including two bills (SB220 and SB240) aimed at aligning the state with the 2018 Federal Farm Bill and allowing for better state regulation of Colorado\u2019s booming hemp industry.<\/p>\n

The story is from VailDaily.com<\/p>\n

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