What’s for dinner?
Rory McIlroy still has nearly a year until his menu will be served at the Champions Dinner on the Tuesday of Masters week. But that doesn’t mean he hasn’t already started plotting what could be on deck for the past champions in their green jackets.
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It’s one of the traditions unlike any other at Augusta National for the winner to pick the food at the winners-only dinner and pick up the tab. It was Ben Hogan’s idea, and he kicked things off in 1952 to what has become one of the most exclusive and coolest nights of the year in golf.
McIlroy, who won the Masters in a dramatic playoff last month to complete the career Grand Slam and win his fifth major, made the rounds in New York City earlier this week, and on Friday morning he appeared on NBC’s Today show. Carson Daly, who grew up getting schooled by Tiger Woods in junior tournaments in Southern California, asked McIlroy about his Champions Dinner menu plans and the Northern Irishman didn’t deflect but rather gave some insight on where he could be headed in designing the meal? Irish soda bread or stew? McIlroy didn’t suggest he would be headed down the knee-jerk reaction of forming his meal around a collection of his native country’s greatest hits.
“I’ve been into like wild game recently, so like venison, elk, stuff like that,” McIlroy said. “I don’t know if that might be in it. That sorta fueled this run, so maybe something like that.”
Sounds like McIlroy has been taking a page out of the old Billy Casper playbook, which earned him the nickname Buffalo Bill. In any event, wild game should go just fine with potatoes.
This article originally appeared on Golfweek: What is Rory McIlroy going to serve at the Masters Champions Dinner?
