Van de Velde thrilled to see drug testing rollout

JEAN VAN DE VELDE has waited a long time for this week — the week when drug-testing become part and parcel of life on the European Tour.

While best remembered still for his amazing last-hole collapse in the 1999 Open, Van de Velde is a member of the European Tour’s board of directors and has long held the view that golf needs to start probing into whether cheats are playing the game.

“I said it over two years ago — I raised the subject,” says the Frenchman, who could himself become the first player to be tested during the European Open, starting tomorrow at The London Club in Kent.