Tony Romo is making one other run at a PGA Tour card.
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Tony Romo is giving the PGA Tour one other late-game drive.
The previous Dallas Cowboys quarterback and present lead CBS soccer analyst is within the discipline for subsequent week’s PGA Tour Q-College pre-qualifying website at Sand Creek Station Golf Membership in Newton, Kansas. It’s Romo’s third straight yr enjoying within the pre-qualifier spherical of Q-College, which consists of a pre-qualifying stage adopted by three levels the place in the end the prime 5 finishers and ties are awarded PGA Tour playing cards. Those that make it to the later levels additionally obtain numerous ranges of Korn Ferry Tour and PGA Tour Americas standing.
Romo has superior out of the pre-qualifier as soon as earlier than, capturing a two-over 218 at Lantana G.C. in Argyle, Texas over 54 holes to simply squeak into the following stage on the quantity. He then performed within the first stage and missed the lower after capturing 13 over whereas enjoying with Scottie Scheffler, then a current graduate of the College of Texas.
Q-College has a really totally different look to it now, because the PGA Tour simply modified the occasion to as soon as once more award PGA Tour playing cards. When Romo superior by the pre-qualifier in 2018, the best degree of standing he might attain was a Korn Ferry Tour card. That’s the place Scheffler ended up enjoying that season.
Romo, who carries a +2.6 index out of Dallas Nationwide Golf Membership, hasn’t posted any significantly eye-popping outcomes this yr. He completed a disappointing thirty eighth out of 90 gamers on the American Century Championship in Lake Tahoe — an occasion he’s received 3 times, most not too long ago in 2022. His final match was the Utah Open the place he completed tied for final amongst gamers to make the lower at 4 over after a final-round 80.
The 14-year NFL veteran has performed in 4 PGA Tour occasions, lacking the lower every time, most not too long ago on the 2019 Safeway Open (now referred to as this week’s Procore Championship) when he shot 70-78. He additionally performed in three Korn Ferry Tour occasions in 2020 and 2021, once more lacking all three cuts.
That’s to not say Romo isn’t a superb golfer. He revealed to GOLF’s Subpar podcast in 2020 that he places in a ridiculous period of time attempting to enhance his recreation.
“I might say, beginning off the yr if it’s not within the soccer season, which modifications clearly when I’ve to journey and for video games, ya know, however I’ll be on the market for a superb six to eight hours, occasionally,” he stated then.
He’s additionally had some success on the beginner degree, practically making match play on the 2023 U.S. Novice 4-Ball Championship with companion (and UT star) Tommy Morrison. He’s change into an everyday at U.S. Open qualifying since retiring, however his most profitable try got here in 2010 when he superior by the native stage, however needed to withdraw from the ultimate qualifier resulting from Cowboys OTAs.
This yr’s pre-qualifier will likely be held Wednesday to Friday, that means the occasion shouldn’t intrude with Romo’s day job, calling CBS soccer as Jim Nantz’s shade analyst. The pre-qualifier is being held at a Sand Creek Station course which simply hosted the U.S. Adaptive Open earlier this yr.
The ultimate stage of Q-College will likely be held December 12-15 in Ponte Vedra Seashore, Florida, at Dye’s Valley Course at TPC Sawgrass and Sawgrass Nation Membership.
