{"id":1573863,"date":"2023-06-30T17:50:58","date_gmt":"2023-06-30T21:50:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1573863"},"modified":"2023-06-30T18:13:16","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T22:13:16","slug":"tony-romo-misses-cut-latest-start-all-pro-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/tony-romo-misses-cut-latest-start-all-pro-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Tony Romo Misses the Cut in His Latest Start on the All Pro Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On a night when NFL<\/a> players were in the golf spotlight as Patrick Mahomes and Travis Kelce upset Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson in the eighth edition of The Match<\/em> at the luxurious Wynn Golf Club in Las Vegas, former Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo<\/a> was 1,700 miles away grinding it out in an actual tournament in the small town of Metamora, Illinois. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now, for starters, you're likely asking yourself, “Where in the hell is Metamora, Illinois?” And the answer to that is about 15 miles outside Peoria, the home of Bradley University. And my hometown, I might add. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the bigger question you're likely asking is, “Why is Tony Romo in a small town in Illinois playing a golf tournament?” And the answer there is that the four-time Pro Bowler was taking yet another shot at a professional event, that being the Children's Hospital of Illinois Open on the All Pro Tour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For those unfamiliar with the APT, it's essentially the biggest mini-tour in the United States. Since its inception in 1994, the APT has seen many of its former players go on to win on the PGA Tour, a list that includes Bubba Watson, Will Zalatoris, and the current No. 1 player in the world, Scottie Scheffler<\/a>. During this 2022-23 PGA Tour season alone, more than 35 players once teed it up on the All Pro Tour. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

So it's the real deal, folks. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the tour typically holds its events in Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Missouri, and Kansas, the APT ventured to Illinois for the first time this week for a 72-hole tourney at Metamora Fields Golf Club, a beautiful 7,100-plus-yard layout co-designed by five-time PGA Tour<\/a> winner D.A. Weibring. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

And the APT and Metamora Fields did it up right.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Just don't see a schedule like this anymore on mini-tours. Well done by the @AllProTourGolf<\/a>
3 days of practice rounds, 2 pro-ams, a drone show, a concert. And have heard good things about the course.

And well done to @MetamoraFields1<\/a> and its members for support this. Awesome pic.twitter.com\/DTVTCdy1Xo<\/a><\/p>— Monday Q Info (@acaseofthegolf1) June 26, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>