BETHESDA, Md. --- It's not often that a player is bold enough to challenge Tiger Woods on the golf course. Rarer still is when it happens during a pro-am round from one of his amateur partners.

"That still puts me 1 up," Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo said to him Wednesday morning.

"Does it, now?" Woods replied, not sounding the least bit concerned.

The world's No. 1 player then smoked a fairway metal down the 17th at Congressional Country Club. Romo, a scratch player who asked to play from the championship tees, followed with a 3-wood that traveled about a yard farther.

On the par-3 second, Romo appeared to have the edge when Woods bladed a bunker shot over the green and into the gallery. He didn't finish out the hole, and when Romo three-putted from the fringe, the quarterback said, "You wouldn't have made 4 from there."

They didn't mention the stakes or how many shots Woods gave Romo -- if any -- although it had a familiar conclusion.

"He contributed to my spending fund, which is nice," Woods said later on his Web site.

The bold move by Woods was playing with the Cowboys' quarterback in Washington Redskins country, and while it attracted a large gallery for the 6:30 a.m. tee time, the cheers and jeers were relatively tame.