The 2018 Masters tournament from Augusta National gets underway Thursday, and the reigning champion Sergio Garcia will be on-hand all week. On Tuesday evening, per Masters tradition, past champions will eat a meal together, with the most recent winner getting to pick the menu.
Sergio Garcia’s Masters dinner menu looks absolutely exquisite
The reining champion gets to pick the menu each year.
For this year’s menu, Garcia chose a meal with a Spanish flare, featuring arroz caldoso de bogavante — a traditional Spanish lobster rice, and tres leches cake. Sounds pretty delicious!
Side note — what exactly is an international salad? Guess we’ll have to wait and see to find out!
Last year, the 2016 winner Danny Willett served a decidedly British affair, featuring Yorkshire pudding, a Sunday roast, and cottage (not shepherd’s) pie. Two years ago, Bubba Watson wanted to amazingly bring in Waffle House for the dinner, which is one of his favorite post-victory places to eat:
Unfortunately, thanks to the tradition of the Masters champions dinner, he wasn’t exactly allowed to do that.
“You can’t use a name brand,” he told reporters on a conference call in advance of the Masters. So no Waffle House for all the dignitaries and legends. However, it stayed basic. ”I eat plain,” he admitted in the same call.
Regardless of what your food preferences are, the Masters champions dinner is a pretty cool tradition, and part of what sets the week in golf apart from any other tournament.
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