Former NFL QB Tony Romo has long been one of the most popular celebrity golfers, although that term might be selling his overall game short. He’s won the American Century Championship, a celebrity golf tournament in Edgewood Tahoe Resort, three times, and in 2023 he teamed with University of Texas player Tommy Morrison and qualified for the U.S. Amateur Four-Ball.
He’s played the pre-qualifying stage of PGA Tour Q School the last three years (most recently last month), was invited to the PGA Tour’s Corales Puntacana Resort and Club Championship in 2018 (he missed the cut) and has made a few Korn Ferry Tour starts.
The QB-turned-CBS analyst is a golf nut. Just ask one of his frequent playing partners in the Dallas, Texas, area: Scottie Scheffler.
“The way his body is, playing that many years in the NFL, he battles it every day,” said Scheffler, the guest on this week’s Subpar podcast. “He brings this little Hypervolt and his lacrosse ball and his bands out on the golf course with him every day and he’s basically warming up the entire round, so I really think it’s just battling his body. Because he’s a really, really good golfer. If his body would cooperate for him I think he’d be a lot better. But it’s tough for him getting beat up for that many years playing in the NFL. I mean, he plays golf every day basically when he’s home. He’s playing golf all the time — he loves it.”
They also play plenty of money games together. And Scheffler explained one way in which he loves to annoy his buddy.
“Tony always has the most risk in the game. So when he plays good he wins and when he plays bad he loses big because he’s got side games with everybody, and he never declines a hammer in wolf; he’s a crazy man,” Scheffler said. “So when he loses he loses big because if we are playing good we are going to make a bunch of birdies and double the bet and do all that stuff, and there’s been a couple of times where he’s played and he wrote checks to guys. And I never go to the bank, so I just keep it in my little pouch and whenever I have to pay him back, let’s say he owes me $1,000, so he writes me a check for $1,000. Then the next week I lose $600, I give him the check and go, ‘Alright, you owe me $400.’ [Laughs]
“It is so much fun because he gets so mad,” Scheffler continued. “He’s like, ‘This isn’t real money! This isn’t fair!’ I’m like, ‘Tony, it has your name on the check. This is what you gave me. I’m giving it back to you now.'”
Scheffler, however, said he’s currently out of stashed checks from Romo.
You can listen to the complete Subpar episode here or watch it on YouTube below. Scheffler also talks about the testiness we saw at the Presidents Cup, why he plays so well at Augusta National, winning Olympic gold and more.
