Tony Romo is exceptionally good at golf.
The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback is a plus handicapper and has played in PGA Tour events. He has won the American Century Championship three times during his career, and he famously tried to qualify for the 2005 U.S. Open.
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In another life, Romo could have become a PGA Tour pro. There’s little doubt about that. But could he beat the world number one, Scottie Scheffler, even now? He certainly thinks so.
He wrote about Scheffler in TIME magazine, singing the four-time major winner’s praises, but also adding that he thinks he can beat him on the course. That was put to Scheffler, who responded after his first round at the RBC Heritage.
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Scottie Scheffler says Tony Romo has beaten Jordan Spieth
Scheffler lives in Texas, where Romo and his good friend on tour, Jordan Spieth, also live. They play frequently, and while Romo has apparently beaten Spieth already, he hasn’t got the better of Scheffler yet.
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Scheffler said, “He’s beaten Jordan before, so shout-out to Jordan for that. But he hasn’t beaten me yet.
“I’m not going to say that he can’t because he’s a good golfer, so I’m definitely not going to go out and say that he can’t, and we also play a lot of golf together, and in golf you never really know what’s going to happen.”
Maybe Scheffler is being humble because it’s one thing to take on Spieth. It’s quite another to take on one of the greatest talents golf has ever seen!
Scottie Scheffler reveals what he’s learned from Tony Romo
In his TIME piece, Romo called 29-year-old Scheffler mature beyond his years. Scheffler said what it means to hear that from the Cowboys legend: “Yeah, it’s really nice. Tony is a guy that I grew up watching play football.
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“I had the opportunity to play golf with him, I think, when I was in college. I liked him from the start. He’s kind of like a big kid. He loves to have fun. He loves competing. The great thing about golf is that I can go out there with him and give him enough strokes to where we’re going to have a good match.
“Jordan, the three of us really play a lot of golf together at home. He’s been a great asset for me just to see how he goes through life as a family man and as someone who is on TV all the time.
“He was the quarterback for the Dallas Cowboys, so he has a better understanding than I do of what it’s like to be in the spotlight, and I’m fortunate to have the ability to bounce stuff off of him.
“Whether or not he handles certain things like — how he handles his sponsorship days or how he handles media or pictures when he goes out to dinner, little stuff like that that I feel like I’ve just learned a lot from him about how to navigate being a professional athlete while also trying to be a family man, as well.”
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It’s nice that Scheffler can lean on people with similar experiences to him. It must be lonely at the top, so those lessons from Romo are invaluable.
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