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The Dallas Cowboys quarterback was on the field practicing Monday during the first day of organized team activities instead of on the golf course trying to earn a spot in the PGA Tour's next tournament.
"There was really no decision there. For me, it was just this is what I love to do. Why would you not choose that?" Romo said.
Romo had a tee time Monday morning in open qualifying for the Byron Nelson Championship, which begins Thursday just down the road from the team's Valley Ranch practice facility. The 18-hole round conflicted with the voluntary Cowboys workout.
"My coaches and teammates know that I would rather not do anything else than this right here," Romo said. "They know it because they see me all the time, and they know it because it really is the funnest thing that we get to do."
Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said he was not(ping rapture v2 fairway wood) surprised Romo chose football over golf.
"It's real obvious as far as where his responsibility is on him personally," Jones said.
Romo got his first chance to throw passes to receiver Dez Bryant, the team's first-round draft pick last month in the first of four consecutive weeks of OTAs. The workouts will culminate with a mandatory minicamp in mid-June. The first training camp practice is July 24 in San Antonio.
thing I do by far," Romo said. "On a day like today, there's nothing else I'd rather do than be here at football competing, and that's what we get to do when we're out at practice. It's not like I missed out on something today.... There was really no decision there. For me, it was just this is what I love to do. Why would you not choose that?"
Romo made the cut to open qualifying for this weekend's PGA tournament in Irving by shooting an even-par 72 in the pre-qualifier last week. But his 9:57 a.m. tee time Monday conflicted with the Cowboys' first OTA, so Romo withdrew from the golf tournament.
"It's real obvious where his responsibility is," Cowboys owner Jerry Jones said. "I'm not the least bit surprised or impressed that he is here."
As an amateur golfer, Romo faced heavy odds to qualify for the Byron Nelson anyway. Only four of 77 players advanced, as Bobby Hutcherson and Trevor Fisher shot 8-under and Wil Collins and Jason Schultz 7-under Monday to earn spots in the weekend PGA event.
"I have a lot of confidence in him certainly as a quarterback," Cowboys offensive coordinator Jason Garrett said when asked how he thought Romo would have done in the golf tournament Monday. "I don't know him quite as well as a golfer, but I know to get to the point that he got to, you've got to be pretty darn good.... So I think he knows what he's doing out there as well."
Romo will try to qualify for the U.S. Open qualifier in an 18-hole tournament at The Honors Golf Club Thursday in Carrollton. But golf is just a hobby; football is his career.
It's the NFL, as Roy Williams pointed out Monday, that pays Romo's bills.
"I'm a football player. I love football. It's fun to play football," Romo said. "Once in a while, I get out, and I love competition whether it's golf, basketball or ping pong. Whatever it is, it's enjoyable to compete. On a daily basis, I'm always competing with myself, but it's nice to be able to beat someone else once in a while. That's what we get when we get out here in practice in football today."
Romo got his first chance to throw to rookie Dez Bryant, the 24th overall choice in last month's draft. Bryant, a lifelong Cowboys fan, seemed in awe of Romo.
"It's easier when a guy makes a mistake if he's in here four or five days a week and I'm seeing him go through and fighting and sweating and doing all it takes," Romo said. "If a guy runs a wrong route and I see him studying, doing everything he can then 'OK, let's go.' " Of course, a wrong route cannot get Romo killed.
A bad Free can. What is most reassuring is Free understands this reality and embraces it despite Owner Jones practically calling him Rayfield Wright incarnate.
"It definitely gives me a little bit of confidence, but you can't let all that confidence go anywhere," Free said. "The only thing you have to worry about is playing football." Well, that and not getting Romo killed.
And that is a far bigger problem than whether or not Romo chooses to play golf.
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