At this stage of his athletic career, Tony Romo should be making better decisions.
CBSSports.com reported that newly crowned Masters champion Jordan Spieth went on the Jim Rome Show on Showtime and bragged that he often takes the Dallas Cowboys quarterback's money on the golf course over some friendly wagering.
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"The good news is he doesn't swallow his pride and take a lot of strokes," Spieth said to Rome. "He likes to play maybe like 2 or 3 a side, which means I'm usually on the winning end of that one."
Rome wanted an exact dollar amount that Romo has donated to Spieth's cause.
"Ha ha. Oh man. I don't know. I can't even count that high," Spieth said. "He's a good friend and a great competitor so we have fun out there."
Of course, anyone would call someone who gives him a lot of money in losing bets those things. Back in 2009, Golf Digest ranked Romo as the best athlete golfer in North America.
That was long before Romo suffered multiple back injuries and actually had to give up the game for at least a year-and-a-half because of his back issues, the Dallas Morning News reported.
It's easy to see why Spieth has taken so much of Romo's money away if Romo is giving up only a few shots. Spieth just defeated Phil Mickelson and Justin Rose by four strokes at Augusta National, and he beat world's No. 1 Rory McIlroy by six strokes.
Even those who would defend Romo's confidence have to agree that his decision to take only a two- or three-stroke advantage against Spieth is reckless.
"Classic Romo fumble there," NFL.com reported. "Always trying to do too much."
And now that Spieth has won the Masters, maybe Romo will stop believing he has to fund Spieth's budding golf career.
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