{"id":440974,"date":"2026-01-27T15:44:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440974\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T15:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T15:44:09","slug":"green-handed-3-month-ban-for-anti-doping-offense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/440974\/","title":{"rendered":"Green handed 3-month ban for anti-doping offense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>VIRGINIA WATER, England &#8212; Malaysian golfer <a data-player-guid=\"b7f46b74-2e1a-53fd-257e-9a3b2c30406e\" href=\"http:\/\/www.espn.com\/golf\/player\/_\/id\/5271\/gavin-green\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Gavin Green<\/a> has received a three-month suspension after testing positive for a banned substance, the European tour said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Green breached its anti-doping policy when taking a herbal supplement available in Asia as therapeutic treatment for an undisclosed medical condition, the tour said.<\/p>\n<p>Green, who is ranked No. 554, is eligible to return to competition on March 5; his ban is retroactive to Dec. 5.<\/p>\n<p>The tour said Green took the doping control test in August at the Danish Golf Championship, where he finished in a tie for 40th. He has been disqualified retrospectively from that event.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8221;Green has cooperated fully with the tour throughout the process and accepted the suspension,&#8221; the European tour said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Green, 32, turned pro in 2015 and has yet to win a tournament on the European tour. His last appearance was at the Genesis Championship in South Korea in October.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"VIRGINIA WATER, England &#8212; Malaysian golfer Gavin Green has received a three-month suspension after testing positive for a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":440975,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[566],"tags":[64,63,755,85],"class_list":["post-440974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440974","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=440974"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/440974\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/440975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=440974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=440974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}