Golf’s leading organizations announced Thursday that an anti-doping policy will begin in 2008.

Tim Finchem, PGA Tour commissioner and chairman of the World Golf Foundation, said that, in the framework of the future policy, a list of banned substances has already been issued and, with it, the methods to be used by each golf organization.

The no-no list includes anabolic agents, hormones, stimulants, narcotics, beta blockers and masking agents. Finchem said golf won’t adopt the World Anti-Doping Association list as it would be extra administrative trouble and "we do not consider the substances in any way impactful as a performance enhancement," he added.

The organizations behind the drug policy are the PGA Tour, European Tour, U.S. Golf Association, Royal & Ancient Golf Club, Augusta National Golf Club, PGA of America and the LPGA Tour.

"We've been supportive of co-coordinating an international effort to test for drugs so we can demonstrate our sport is clean and we can keep it that way," R&A chief executive Dawson said. The R&A, golf's world rules and development body, introduced anti-doping measures for the first time at last year's world amateur team championship in Cape Town.

Finchem said he isn’t aware of any evidence of golfers taking performance-enhancing drugs, although golf leaders have come under increasing pressure to develop a policy. He added that the new policy will be coordinated world-wide and if a player is reported as violating the rules on one of the tours, his suspension would be recognized by the other tours as well.

Here is the list of prohibited substances
1 Anabolic Agents
2 Hormones and Related Substances
3 Agents with Anti-Estrogenic Activity
4 Diuretics and Other Masking Agents
5 Stimulants
6 Narcotics
7 Cannabinoids
8 Beta Blockers
9 Enhancement of Oxygen Transfer
10 Chemical and Physical Manipulation

The following substances may be prohibited at the option of individual Golf Organizations:
A Glucocorticosteroids and
B Beta-2-Antagonists