NAPA, Calif. – Tony Romo is set to return inside the ropes, although this time he’s having to balance PGA Tour golf with his day job.
The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback is playing this week’s Safeway Open as an amateur on a sponsor exemption. It’s the fourth such exemption for Romo, who plays to a +1.1 handicap, and his third Tour appearance of 2019. He has played in the Dominican Republic each of the last two years and also teed it up in the AT&T Byron Nelson in May.
But this is the first time that tournament golf has conflicted with Romo’s full-time gig as an NFL analyst for CBS, which has him traveling from one stadium to the next for much of the fall.