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Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters are nothing if not tradition. One of the best is the Champions Dinner. Each Masters winner gets to select the menu for the next year's dinner, held on the Tuesday of tournament week.
The history dates back to 1952. Defending champion Ben Hogan organized a "Masters Club" for all the past champions. Honorary memberships were extended to club co-founders Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts. Tournament chairmen were later added, and Fred Ridley is an annual participant.
The Masters official program states:
What do the menus look like? Here are the recent Masters Champions Dinners.
Editor's note: The year listed is the year the dinner was served, not the year the player won the Masters.
Finally a Masters champ, McIlroy's menu has been released and it's a good one. He had previously said: “I’ve been into like wild game recently, so like venison, elk, stuff like that." And he followed through, as grilled elk sliders are on his menu.
Scheffler didn't switch it up too much compared to what he did in 2023.
Rahm served up a little Spanish flavor with his menu.
Scottie Scheffler, the tournament's 2022 champ, nailed it in 2023. His menu has a little something for everyone.
Players were impressed with not just Matsuyama's dinner menu, but also the speech he gave in English. But back to the menu.
Tiger Woods zinged Dustin Johnson about what his Champions Dinner menu may be, but all kidding aside, DJ put together a solid spread after his November Masters win.
“Being born and raised in SoCal, having fajitas and sushi was a part of my entire childhood, and I’m going back to what I had in 2006,” Woods previously said of his menu for 2020. “So we’ll have steak and chicken fajitas, and we’ll have sushi and sashimi out on the deck, and I hope the guys will enjoy it.”
Love him or hate him, you have to respect this level of depth for Patrick Reed's dinner menu.
Sergio Garcia had a personal family touch to his dinner menu ahead of the 2018 Masters. I'm not exactly sure what all is in a traditional Spanish lobster rice is but I'd sure like to try it.
Danny Willett made his menu as English as possible, rivaling Sir Nick Faldo's fish and chips in 1997.
Jordan Spieth had a good ol' fashion Texas barbecue at Augusta National in 2016.
Bubba Watson revealed last week that he usually eats before the Champions Dinner because he doesn't know what will be served, even though it's made public in advance.
So, it's not surprising that Watson's menu was basic as could be (and the same as 2013): Caesar salad, chicken breast, green beans, mashed potatoes macaroni and cheese, corn, confetti cake and vanilla ice cream.
Adam Scott wasn't having it.
Speaking of Scott, his menu was a bit more diverse than Watson's.
Faldo called Watson's menu a Happy Meal, and there's absolutely no coming back from that.
Charl Schwartzel brought the heat with a little surf-and-turf action.
If you're a fan of seafood, he had crabmeat, crab legs, oyster, shrimp and lobster. If you're not a fan of seafood, how about a South African barbecue with some steak, sausages and lamb?
It might be boring, but you can't go wrong with a vanilla ice cream sundae for desert.
“I just want him to know we all wish he was here and we are thinking about him,”
Lefty honored Seve Ballesteros, who was absent due to his cancer battle, with his menu in 2011 and served a Spanish paella with machango-topped filet mignon, a salad and apple empanada ice cream for desert.
Angel Cabrera offered an Argentine Asado barbecue of chorizo, blood sausage, short ribs and beef filets with mollejas sweetbreads.
2009: Trevor Immelman
Meat pie with egg, sosaties, spinach salad, milk tart.
2008: Zach Johnson
Iowa beef, Florida shrimp.
2007: Phil Mickelson
Chicken, sausage, ribs, pulled pork.
2006: Tiger Woods
Stuffed jalapeno and quesadilla starter, salad, chicken and steak fajitas, rice, apple pie, ice cream.
2005: Phil Mickelson
Lobster ravioli in tomato cream sauce, salad, garlic bread.
2004: Mike Weir
Elk, wild boar, Arctic char.
2003: Tiger Woods
Chicken, porterhouse steak, sushi, sashimi, salads, crab cakes, asparagus, mashed potatoes, chocolate truffle cake.
2002: Tiger Woods
Porterhouse steak, chicken, sushi.
2001: Vijay Singh
Chicken panang curry, tom kah, scallops with garlic sauce, rack of lamb, sea bass with chili sauce, lychee sorbet.
2000: Jose Maria Olazabal
Beef filet with a red wine sauce, romaine lettuce with olive oils and vinegar, papitas fritas (small french fries) and shallots.
1999: Mark O'Meara
Sushi, tuna sashimi, chicken and steak fajitas.
1998: Tiger Woods
Cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, French fries.
1997: Nick Faldo
Fish and chips, tomato soup.
1996: Ben Crenshaw
Texas barbecue.
1995: Jose Maria Olazabal
Paella and hake, tapas.
1994: Bernhard Langer
Turkey, black forest torte.
1993: Fred Couples
Chicken cacciatore.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Masters Champions Dinners menu over the years at Augusta National
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The history dates back to 1952. Defending champion Ben Hogan organized a "Masters Club" for all the past champions. Honorary memberships were extended to club co-founders Bobby Jones and Clifford Roberts. Tournament chairmen were later added, and Fred Ridley is an annual participant.
The Masters official program states:
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What do the menus look like? Here are the recent Masters Champions Dinners.
Editor's note: The year listed is the year the dinner was served, not the year the player won the Masters.
2026: Rory McIlroy
Finally a Masters champ, McIlroy's menu has been released and it's a good one. He had previously said: “I’ve been into like wild game recently, so like venison, elk, stuff like that." And he followed through, as grilled elk sliders are on his menu.
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2025: Scottie Scheffler
Scheffler didn't switch it up too much compared to what he did in 2023.
2024: Jon Rahm
Rahm served up a little Spanish flavor with his menu.
2023: Scottie Scheffler
Scottie Scheffler, the tournament's 2022 champ, nailed it in 2023. His menu has a little something for everyone.
2022: Hideki Matsuyama
Players were impressed with not just Matsuyama's dinner menu, but also the speech he gave in English. But back to the menu.
2021: Dustin Johnson
Tiger Woods zinged Dustin Johnson about what his Champions Dinner menu may be, but all kidding aside, DJ put together a solid spread after his November Masters win.
2020: Tiger Woods
“Being born and raised in SoCal, having fajitas and sushi was a part of my entire childhood, and I’m going back to what I had in 2006,” Woods previously said of his menu for 2020. “So we’ll have steak and chicken fajitas, and we’ll have sushi and sashimi out on the deck, and I hope the guys will enjoy it.”
2019: Patrick Reed
Love him or hate him, you have to respect this level of depth for Patrick Reed's dinner menu.
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2018: Sergio Garcia
Sergio Garcia had a personal family touch to his dinner menu ahead of the 2018 Masters. I'm not exactly sure what all is in a traditional Spanish lobster rice is but I'd sure like to try it.
2017: Danny Willett
Danny Willett made his menu as English as possible, rivaling Sir Nick Faldo's fish and chips in 1997.
2016: Jordan Spieth
Jordan Spieth had a good ol' fashion Texas barbecue at Augusta National in 2016.
2015: Bubba Watson
Bubba Watson revealed last week that he usually eats before the Champions Dinner because he doesn't know what will be served, even though it's made public in advance.
So, it's not surprising that Watson's menu was basic as could be (and the same as 2013): Caesar salad, chicken breast, green beans, mashed potatoes macaroni and cheese, corn, confetti cake and vanilla ice cream.
Adam Scott wasn't having it.
2014: Adam Scott
Speaking of Scott, his menu was a bit more diverse than Watson's.
2013: Bubba Watson
Faldo called Watson's menu a Happy Meal, and there's absolutely no coming back from that.
2012: Charl Schwartzel
Charl Schwartzel brought the heat with a little surf-and-turf action.
If you're a fan of seafood, he had crabmeat, crab legs, oyster, shrimp and lobster. If you're not a fan of seafood, how about a South African barbecue with some steak, sausages and lamb?
It might be boring, but you can't go wrong with a vanilla ice cream sundae for desert.
2011: Phil Mickelson
“I just want him to know we all wish he was here and we are thinking about him,”
Lefty honored Seve Ballesteros, who was absent due to his cancer battle, with his menu in 2011 and served a Spanish paella with machango-topped filet mignon, a salad and apple empanada ice cream for desert.
2010: Angel Cabrera
Angel Cabrera offered an Argentine Asado barbecue of chorizo, blood sausage, short ribs and beef filets with mollejas sweetbreads.
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2000s
2009: Trevor Immelman
Meat pie with egg, sosaties, spinach salad, milk tart.
2008: Zach Johnson
Iowa beef, Florida shrimp.
2007: Phil Mickelson
Chicken, sausage, ribs, pulled pork.
2006: Tiger Woods
Stuffed jalapeno and quesadilla starter, salad, chicken and steak fajitas, rice, apple pie, ice cream.
2005: Phil Mickelson
Lobster ravioli in tomato cream sauce, salad, garlic bread.
2004: Mike Weir
Elk, wild boar, Arctic char.
2003: Tiger Woods
Chicken, porterhouse steak, sushi, sashimi, salads, crab cakes, asparagus, mashed potatoes, chocolate truffle cake.
2002: Tiger Woods
Porterhouse steak, chicken, sushi.
2001: Vijay Singh
Chicken panang curry, tom kah, scallops with garlic sauce, rack of lamb, sea bass with chili sauce, lychee sorbet.
2000: Jose Maria Olazabal
Beef filet with a red wine sauce, romaine lettuce with olive oils and vinegar, papitas fritas (small french fries) and shallots.
1990s
1999: Mark O'Meara
Sushi, tuna sashimi, chicken and steak fajitas.
1998: Tiger Woods
Cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, French fries.
1997: Nick Faldo
Fish and chips, tomato soup.
1996: Ben Crenshaw
Texas barbecue.
1995: Jose Maria Olazabal
Paella and hake, tapas.
1994: Bernhard Langer
Turkey, black forest torte.
1993: Fred Couples
Chicken cacciatore.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: Masters Champions Dinners menu over the years at Augusta National
Continue reading...
