Jeff Overton, who played a golf tournament 10 days after an appendectomy to try to secure his job on the PGA Tour, took a painkiller banned by the tour while his request for a waiver was pending. PGA Tour spokesman Ty Votaw said Tuesday that last week Overton asked for an "emergency TUE" (therapeutic use exemption) for Percocet, which his doctors prescribed for pain after his emergency surgery.
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