Masters Champions Dinner menus over the last 30 years

Augusta National Golf Club and the Masters are both steeped in history.

One of the best traditions of the annual meeting down Magnolia Lane is the Champions Dinner held each Tuesday night of tournament week. Over the years, some of the best players to ever swing a club have gathered to share a meal of the defending champion’s choice.

This year, Scottie Scheffler is offering up a Texas-sized menu for his fellow champions to feast on. But how does the world No. 1’s menu stack up with previous dinners?

Fair warning, readers, this list of Masters Champions Dinner menus over the last 30 years is sure to make you hungry.

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Editor’s note: The year listed is the year the dinner was served, not the year the player won the Masters.

2023: Scottie Scheffler

Scottie nailed this one. 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.

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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.

A view of the 2019 Champions Dinner menu as selected by Patrick Reed at The Masters at Augusta National Golf Club. (Photo: Michael Madrid/USA TODAY Sports)

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.

Phil Mickelson receives his green jacket from 2009 champion Angel Cabrera after winning the 2010 Masters at Augusta National Golf Club. (Photo: USA TODAY Sports)

2010: Angel Cabrera

Angel Cabrera offered an Argentine Asado barbecue of chorizo, blood sausage, short ribs and beef filets with mollejas sweetbreads.

Trevor Immelman congratulates Angel Cabrera after Cabrera won the 2009 Masters at Augusta National Golf Club. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)

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

Mark O’Meara receives the green jacket from Tiger Woods after winning the 1998 Masters. (Photo: Ed Reinke/Associated Press)

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.

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