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The List: Champions Dinner menus
Danny Willett will serve as host for the Champions Dinner on Tuesday night as Masters winners gather for their special annual meal.
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The tradition started in 1952, and in the early years featured a menu with a main course consisting of beef, chicken or seafood. However, with an influx of international winners, the meal now reflects the champion’s individual tastes. Here are some of the more interesting meals in recent years:
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