Cowboys QBs Synchronize Golf Achievements

It’s the shopworn cliche that athletes, retired or simply between seasons, spend an inordinate amount of time on the golf course when not in action. Whether that is accurate or not isn’t of tremendous concern to us at the moment. Instead we choose to note with interest that in the same week former Cowboys quarterback Troy Aikman recorded his first ever hole-in-one days before the team’s current passer, Tony Romo (pictured), advanced past the regional qualifying round of the U.S. Open.↵↵Is this the pairing of golfing achievements simply the result of pure happenstance? Almost certainly. Is it also a dovetailing of tangentially related events that makes for easy blog post fodder? Why, of course.↵

↵↵Still: this is the first time in five tries that Romo has advanced to the sectional round of the qualifiers. The next step is a 36-hole, one-day tournament held June 7 at The Club at Carlton Woods at The Woodlands, which is located outside Houston. And before all the knee-jerk talk of distraction gets stoked, Romo still intends on making the beginning of a Cowboys three-day OTA program scheduled to begin the day after the tournament. In fact, he skipped the second round of qualifying for the HP Byron Nelson tournament because there was a conflict in scheduling with a Cowboys practice.↵

↵↵Instead, professional worrywarts will have to consume themselves with Chad Ochocinco’s decision to film another reality show right after finishing with Dancing With the Stars. Nevermind that Ocho is actually incorporating the show into a mandatory Bengals minicamp scheduled in the middle of next month.↵

↵↵⇥Not to worry. “We’ll turn it into a positive,” says [producer Bob] Horowitz, saying five or six of the female contestants will still be in contention by mid-June and they’ll just tag along to the Queen City. “We’ll just work the minicamp into the show. There’ll be a Bengals layer to it.”↵↵↵Some by bristle at the thought of bringing the circus into the team’s affairs, but then having Hard Knocks in camp last year didn’t seem to affect the team’s fortunes too direly either.↵

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