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Danny Willett’s Masters Champions Dinner choices (plus some of the finest feasts)
A question unlike any other: What do Masters winners serve at the Champions Dinner?
One of the threads of the rich tapestry of Masters tradition, the Champions Dinner began in 1952. The great Ben Hogan proposed the past Masters champions (the Masters Club) should meet to have dinner before the tournament with last year’s winner picking up the tab. Hogan stipulated they should wear their green jackets.
Fast-forward some 65 years: Something Ben Hogan could never have fathomed. Reigning Masters champion Danny Willett took to Twitter to post his British-inspired menu: Mini Cottage Pies, “Sunday Roast,” Apple Crumble.
And per Augusta.com, here are some of the more interesting menus in recent year.
Sandy Lyle, 1989: Jumbo lump crabmeat cocktail, haggis (sheep innards), neeps and tatties (mashed potatoes and mashed turnips), broiled pompano.
Tiger Woods, 1998: Cheeseburger, grilled chicken sandwich, french fries, strawberry and vanilla milkshakes, strawberry shortcake.
Vijay Singh, 2001: Seafood Tom Kah, chicken Panang curry, baked sea scallops with garlic sauce, rack of lamb with yellow kari sauce, baked filet Chilean sea bass with three flavor chili sauce, lychee sorbet.
Mike Weir, 2004: Lobster in puff pastry, wild boar and Chanterelle mushroom bundles, sockeye salmon tartare, white and green asparagus salad, roasted rack of Wapiti elk, fried chicken, filet mignon, sauteed pompano.
Charl Schwartzel, 2012: Sliced biltong, Boerwors with monkey gland sauce, Dauphinoise potatoes, vanilla ice cream sundae, crispy meringues.
If you can’t get enough Champions Dinner content, the BBC put together this matching game in which you pair the champ with his associated cuisine.
Of course, this will be the first Champions Dinner in decades without Arnold Palmer in attendance. Nick Faldo has an excellent suggestion for honoring and remembering Palmer, who passed away in September.
“I hope they ask everybody to around the room and tell an Arnold story. That would be unbelievable.I think we should make that a tradition. That will be pretty cool, wouldn’t it?”
Indeed. Let’s hope this year’s dinner not only honor’s Willett’s win, but is a feast fit for the King.
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Coolest thing for sale in the GolfWRX Classifieds (1/16/24): Cobra Forged One Length irons
At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals that all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.
It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.
Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, there is a listing for a set of Cobra Forged One Length irons.
From the seller: (@adamwittman): “4-PW, GW, lw. Nunchuk shafts. $350 tyd conusa.”
To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link: Cobra Forged One Length irons
This is the most impressive current listing from the GolfWRX BST, and if you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum you can check them out here: GolfWRX BST Rules
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What GolfWRXers are saying about Kevin Kisner’s new Callaway X Forged CB irons
In our forums, our members have been discussing Kevin Kisner’s new Callaway X Forged CB irons which he has in the bag at this week’s CJ Cup. WRXers have been commenting on the switch and the clubs themselves in our forums.
For lots more photos, check out the full thread here.
Here are a few posts from the thread, but make sure to check out the entire discussion and have your say at the link below.
- btyh: “Holy offset.”
- Glf_LU: “These are interesting. Not going to make a rush to judgement until I see them in person. It does look like a little more offset than I would expect to see in this model.”
- bcflyguy1: “Kisner is not one to make a lot of equipment changes (see the GBB driver he’s still using), so if these do have staying power in his bag that will be interesting to see. I have to wonder if there’s something different about his set, because like others have mentioned there appears to be more offset on his than I recall seeing in the samples I’ve had in hand.”
Entire Thread: “Kevin Kisner’s new Callaway X Forged CB irons”
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WATCH: PGA Tour players play hole blindfolded and it’s hilarious/amazing
As part of a Srixon campaign, four PGA Tour players recently participated in a three-hole challenge, with each hole being a different game; hole No. 1 was blindfolded, hole No. 2 was costumes and distractions, and hole No. 3 was alternate shot with a baseball bat. The teams were Smylie Kaufman and Sam Ryder against Shane Lowry and Grayson Murray.
Watch the full video below, since it is quite entertaining (albeit not the type of golf that Old Tom Morris surely had in mind), but in particular, make sure to check out the first hole where Lowry and Ryder play a full hole completely blind folded. It’s amazing to watch how badly Ryder struggles, and how Lowry nearly makes par.
What happens when 4 #PGATOUR pros take a day off?
Luckily, the cameras were rolling.
Watch @shanelowrygolf, @graysonmurray, @smyliekaufman10, and @samrydersu in #SrixonVS. pic.twitter.com/C4LJwQgmZ7— Srixon (@SrixonGolf) June 25, 2018
Cleveland-Srixon’s marketing department has been hard at work crafting these viral-esque ad campaigns; if you remember, former long-drive champion Jamie Sadlowski recently dressed as 80-year-old Grandpa Jamie to fool range-goers. That video has since gathered over 1.2 million views on YouTube.
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Joe
Apr 4, 2017 at 12:42 pm
Monkey gland sauce?
chinchbugs
Apr 5, 2017 at 1:05 pm
Hey everyone! Joe’s never had monkey gland sauce. Do you even fine dine bro?