Philadelphia, PA -- (Sports Network) - Infamy can be tricky.

There's good infamy like Notorious BIG or Al Capone, who had reputations so bad that it made them good.

There's being infamous like the Three Amigos thought of El Guapo. "In-famous?"

Doug Barron is now synonymous with infamy.

Barron became the first PGA Tour player suspended for violating the tour's drug policy on Monday. With very little fanfare, the tour sent out a release and announced that Barron was suspended for a year.

"I would like to apologize for any negative perception of the tour or its players resulting from my suspension," Barron said in a statement issued by the PGA Tour. "I want my fellow tour members and the fans to know that I did not intend to gain an unfair competitive advantage or enhance my performance while on tour."

And that was it.

The tour said it won't comment further. Barron won't comment further.

We don't know when he failed the test. We don't know what he tested positive for. We don't anything other than a guy who barely played on tour is not allowed to play on tour for a year.

There are privacy laws and this is the tour's doping policy, but this is not close to enough.

This is the first man to be suspended because of this policy. The tour owes more of an explanation than to just say, "He's suspended...one year...nothing further...have a good day." We need details and for no better reason than the fact that this is the first player to be so named.

People probably aren't well-versed in the PGA Tour's doping policy. It's doubtful that the average Joe brushes up on the banned-substance list. This was a great chance for the tour to educate the public on its ideology, but it whiffed.

In a recent article with Golf Magazine, Zach Johnson admitted he stopped taking Propecia for hair loss around the British Open. He said, "On our list it was OK. It was leading up to the British Open, and if I was to get tested at the British, they said it potentially masks other agents."

Who would have ever thought it? I didn't, and look at my head on the photo below. Again, who knows what's on these lists...unless you look at them, and nobody is going to do that.

The statement released by the tour did nothing but brush this whole situation under the rug. Obviously, it's a black eye for the tour, but we're talking about a 40-year-old journeyman with no status. This was a time for educating and confronting.

Now, Barron will probably never see another PGA Tour event in his life. He's the answer to a trivia question and a (mild) punchline, but he also becomes an important piece of tour history.

How many times have you heard a tour player say something like this, "Well, I don't think we need it, but it's good we have testing so that we can prove no one cheats."

Guess what fella, you can't say that anymore.

Actually, who knows? Maybe you can. It's not like we know why he was suspended. Barron has a full head of hair, so it's doubtful he's using Propecia.

We might never know, but this was historic and we deserved more. All we got was infamy, and not the hilarious El Guapo kind.

RANDOM THOUGHTS

- Know what it takes for the PGA Tour to cancel an entire event? Happened once for weather since 1990, until Sunday. It's a real shame because you don't think about how much it hurts an economy. These tour events are cash cows.

- The LPGA Tour named Michael Whan as its new Commissioner. Here's what I know: he loves golf, he's a marketing guy and he's not Carolyn Bivens. All good things.

- So Anthony Kim versus Robert Allenby happened, just weeks after Allenby accused Kim of being "sideways" at 4 a.m. It took place at the Volvo World Match Play Championship. Once again, Kim killed him, this time, 5 & 4. I actually feel good for Kim that he clobbered him again. The more I've thought about it, Allenby was really out of line.

- Movie moment - OK, I could write a masters thesis on The Goonies. There's so much magic. Anyway, I often wonder what the next scene would be in movies. The one you don't see. For example, what do you think Chunk's parents say in The Goonies after Chunk tells Sloth he can come live with him now. Does it go, "Lawrence (Chunk's real name), do you think we could possibly discuss you bringing this handicapped and seriously damaged person into our home? It seems he may need more care than we are capable of providing, so let's not go ahead and promise him anything just yet."