"I told myself this year if I get in trouble, just chip out because bogeys don't hurt you. So that's what I did," he said. He admitted he got tired the last few holes.
"It's a long course to walk. I usually don't walk. I'd take a cart to the green, putting if I could," Taylor said.
Romo said he tries to use golf as a tool to put himself in situations "where hopefully you can think clearly under pressure."
"The more times you do that, for me I think will help me in football," he said, adding that it was good to have Simpson cheering him on. "She has been at more sporting events than people know."
Romo said he landed rear-end first in the pond and "got wet up to my belly button." Roenick helped fish him out.
"I rescued Tony Romo," Roenick said. "I wish it was worth five points (in the Stableford system) because then I'd be right there with 44... I think I was the difference between him getting his pants wet and his whole body wet. He was a true warrior out there today."
At the other end of the scoreboard Charles Barkley ran his two day total to minus 55. That was significantly worse than his next closest competitors, quarterbacks Trent Green at minus 40 and Jay Cutler at minus 39.
