Tony Romo receives sponsor invitation to Korn Ferry Tour event in April

Former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo to play at Veritex Bank Championship in April at the invitation of a sponsor, the Korn Ferry Tour announced Tuesday.

The Korn Ferry Tour is the “Triple-A” on-road tour for professional golfers on the PGA Tour. The event will take place at the Rangers Golf Club in Arlington, Texas.

Romo was scheduled to star in last year’s event before it was canceled due to COVID-19 cancellations across all sports. He performed in the Price Cutter charity championship on the tour last July before retiring from the event with a wrist injury.

Romo is an accomplished golfer with a +1.8 handicap according to his USGA GHIN. He competed in several professional exemptions and qualified for sectional qualifications for the US Open. He has competed in four PGA Tour events: the 2019 AT&T Byron Nelson at Trinity Forest Golf Club in Dallas, and the 2018 and 2019 Corales Puntacana Resort & Club Championship in the Dominican Republic, and the 2019 Safeway Open at the Silverado Resort in Napa. , California. He has been unable to make the cut in all cases he has appeared so far.

At the Safeway Open, he shot a first par 70 of 2 under to put him in position to go on the weekend. CBS had Boomer Esiason on hold as a save option for their Sunday game this weekend, as Romo would have been busy on Sunday had he made the cut at the September event. Instead, Romo missed the cut by four shots after a second round by 6 by 78.