Cowboys Golf Event Flooded By 'Feel-Good'
By Mike Fisher | @fishsports
GRAPEVINE (CBSDFW.COM) -- The Cowboys' 26th annual sponsors golf tournament was rained out on Tuesday, but the event was even more flooded by organizational optimism.
Some of that feeling comes from Tony Romo. Some of it is about Tony Romo.
"I think,'' COO Stephen Jones said of the quarterback, "he feels better about this football team than he's ever felt at any time in his career."
The reasons why dotted the course in Grapevine at Cowboys Golf Club, players adorned in fluorescent yellow golf shorts, hacking away in the rain alongside corporate partners who accented the afterparty with Miller Lite, Pepsi and Papa John's.
"You can judge which guys can golf and which guys can't,'' J.J. Wilcox told me, "by which ones are actually happy to get rained out.''
In general, though this is a happy bunch — even as the Cowboys work through contractual issues with Dez Bryant, Orlando Scandrick and Brandon Carr (the latter a participant in the event) and through behavioral issues with the likes of Greg Hardy.
But Hardy's work in Phase Two of the NFL's voluntary offseason strength-and-conditioning program (featuring on-field instruction from the coaching staff) has his new teammates abuzz.
Said Carr of Hardy: "He's an animal. I love him. He gives it his all every single day. That's all you can ask for."
Said owner Jerry Jones of Hardy: "He's ready to go at all hours. I'm excited about his zest, and it's contagious. He's a leader."
The Cowboys are so buoyed by optimism that even Hardy, with his bruised reputation, qualifies as a "leader''? That's the mood right now, the Cowboys sailing atop a wave of feel-good.
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