Tony Romo completed a twine-to-cord victory Sunday inside the American Century Championship for his second consecutive win in the superstar match at Edgewood Tahoe Golf Course.
The former Dallas Cowboys quarterback and cutting-edge CBS NFL analyst closed with a 2-over 74 and scored 20 points to complete at 71 within the modified Stableford scoring device. Former pitcher Mark Mulder, the winner in 2015-17, turned into ten factors again after a seventy-one and a 24-point day. Romo, 39, became the fourth participant in tournament records to guard the name efficiently. With Romo, a novice, the $125,000 first prize became donated to legitimate match charity Stowers Institute for Medical Research. “It’s an honor to win this match,” Romo stated. “I got here with self-belief, and that is some of the nice golf I’ve played those past few weeks. When I received the ultimate yr, each shot mattered. This year, it has become easier. That’s why we practice so much.”
Retief Goosen birdied the last two holes to win the Bridgestone Senior Players Championship on Sunday at Firestone Country Club for his first PGA Tour Champions title. The 50-year-antique Hall of Famer from South Africa broke a tie for the lead with a fifteen-foot putt on the par-4 17th and made a ten-footer on the par-four 18th for a 2-underneath 68-stroke victory over sixty-five-year-vintage Jay Haas and Tim Petrovic. “It’s been 10 years because I have still received an event,” Goosen stated. “The nerves have been there, and to have those nerves a little bit again inside the last few weeks, you already know, you have just been given to put yourself in a function all of the time to get used to it again, and that is what I’ve achieved and it, in the end, paid off this week.”Three strokes ahead after commencing rounds of sixty-nine and sixty-two, Goosen dropped a stroke at the back of Scott Parel with a seventy-five on Saturday.
“Played great the first two rounds and then failed to play all that awful the previous day, simply let the path get the better of me,” Goosen said. “And these days, it turned into gambling tough again. It turned into tough to get close, difficult to make birdies but controlled to finish with four birdies within the last six holes or seven holes, so dragging it off was pleasant.”
The two-time U.S. Open champion rebounded from a bogey at the par-4 first with an eagle at the par-5 second, then parred the following 8. He offset a double-bogey on the par-four 11th with birdies on the par-3 12th and par-4 thirteenth but dropped another stroke on the par-four 14th. Firestone is a longtime PGA Tour venue, hosting the World Golf Championships event and formerly the World Series of Golf.
“It’s an incredible path,” Goosen said. “It’s a golf path that hits the fairways, which is the No. 1 precedence, and even if you’re on the fairway, once in a while, you have to get close. It’s an incredible golfing path. This week, the way the wind blew played difficult.”
Haas, trying to emerge as the oldest winner in tour records, closed with a 67.
“It does now not healthy me in any respect,” Haas stated about Firestone. “But the way it became gambling, it was gambling quite speedy within the fairways and the whole thing, and if I should maintain it in the fairway, I had a threat. But Retief’s hitting an iron on 17. I’m hitting a driving force and that identical iron.” Petrovic shot sixty-eight. “I’ve been struggling,” Petrovic said. “Been kind of doing the entirety mediocre this 12 months. Got lower back to work this week and returned to fundamentals.” Parel had a seventy-three to tie for fourth with Kent Jones (seventy-one) at two under.
“I assume I will probably do higher the subsequent time I’m here,” Parel stated. “I probably did not turn out as organized for the course. I likely needed to take a membership out and position any other one right here or there. Appeared to chew me these days more than anything.” Steve Stricker, the first-round leader after a sixty-four, shot a seventy-two to complete 6th at one under. Two weeks later, he was coming off a victory in the U.S. Senior Open at Notre Dame and gained the essential Regions Tradition in May. “Just made too many mistakes once more,” Stricker said. “Didn’t make too many putts after I did have some opportunities, and you have got to have all parts of your sport operating right here. It’s a brilliant path. It changed into set up difficult, but a superb week.”
