Trouble with updating version of GO on my Linux box

I had a little trouble with updating my version of GO. 

I started running the following commands

sudo rm -rf /usr/local/go
sudo tar -C /usr/local -xzf go1.14.7.linux-amd64.tar.gz

Now I should be done and ready. When I ran

go version

the old version number was reported. This is strange. My solution was to run the commands

which go
whereis go

to find out where GO was being referenced. After deleting all the references I was finally able to install the new version.