Tim Tebow may or may not tee it up at next month’s AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am, but Tom Brady, the guy who put an end to the Broncos’ season by spearheading Saturday’s 45-10 rout of the Denver team in an NFL divisional playoff game, will be there.
“Even as the season winds down the NFL continues at the 2012 AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am with Tom Brady, Herm Edwards joining the field,” tourney organizers tweeted Monday.
QB12, who has three more Super Bowl rings than the popular Denver signal-caller but had become something of a forgotten man as Tebow-mania went ballistic, reportedly plays to a 10-handicap. His New England Patriots have their work cut out for them if they’re to beat the defensive-minded Baltimore Ravens and make it to the big game. Even if his team does get to play the winner of the New York Giants/San Francisco 49ers NFC championship tilt, Brady will have a whole three days to recover before sticking a peg in the ground at Pebble on February 9.
Meanwhile, with Tiger Woods formally on the tee sheet for the competion, according to PGA Tour PR chief Joel Schuchmann, and Tebow temporarily off the front pages after last weekend’s beat down, Tony Romo reemerged as the amateur most likely to team up with Woods when the former No. 1 makes his 2012 U.S. debut next month.
"Tiger Woods ‘officially’ commits to AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am today," Schuchmann, the tour’s director of communications, said via Twitter Monday afternoon.
Rumors of a Tiger/Tebow team began to fly soon after Woods noted on his website earlier this month that he was looking forward to the start of his tour season on the famed golf links. Tournament director Ollie Nutt told us Friday -- a day before Tom Brady outgunned Tebow, 45-10, in an NFL divisional playoff game -- that he expected Dallas Cowboys QB Romo to make a return appearance on Team Tiger.
Touring pro Ryan Palmer, a Dallas resident and friend of Romo’s, tweeted last week that Tony and Tiger would tee off as a twosome at Pebble, and an ESPN source confirmed that Monday. While not constant cohorts, the duo played together during the AT&T National pro-am in 2009, and Woods shared a Cowboys Stadium suite with Romo for a U2 concert that same year.
Woods will be making his first start since 2002 in the Pebble Beach event. Romo was John Daly’s sidekick for the tourney in 2010 and 2011. Brady is also no stranger to Pebble Beach; he’s played five times and the tour pro he played with in 2010, Steve Marino, finished in a tie for fourth that year.
Another celebrity with Boston ties, Jeffrey Donovan of USA Network’s “Burn Notice,” is a regular on the Pebble circuit. The pride of Amesbury, Mass., who plays out of Lagorce Country Club in Miami, Fla., and carries a 6.1 GHIN index, will make his fourth consecutive start in this year’s edition. He and playing partner Andy Garcia won the Pebble Beach celebrity challenge in 2010.
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