As the current Broncos prepare to report to training camp on Thursday, the franchise’s most famous player is readying himself for an entirely different game.
John Elway will be among the field teeing off Thursday in the Colorado Open at the Green Valley Ranch Golf Club, and Elway set a goal to at least make the cut. It’s a realistic expectation, considering the Hall of Fame quarterback is a zero handicap and won the club championship at Castle Pines earlier this summer.
The crowd gathered in the pavilion outside the Green Valley Ranch clubhouse applauded when Elway admitted his handicap during a press conference following Wednesday’s Pro-Am.
“Hopefully I can make the cut, that’s kind of my goal, to make the cut and be able to play on the weekend,” Elway said. “So I try not to set my goals too high. The cut is the most realistic thing I can hope for.”
It has now been nearly a decade since Elway retired from football, and he said playing golf has provided a way to get his “competitive juices flowing.”
“The confidence level I have playing golf is not nearly what I had in football, so it is a little bit of a different feeling for me in that the butterflies never seem to go away in golf, but after you get hit one time in football they go away,” Elway said. “As an athlete, you never lose those competitive juices, so that’s why I appreciate so much the invite to be able to play.”
