Dinner is served.
The Masters Champions Dinner held on Tuesday evening at the Augusta National clubhouse the week of the Masters is one of the sport’s finest traditions.
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The reigning Masters winner hand-selects each item on the menu that is served to all former winners in attendance.
It is a special and sacred night.
This year it was Scottie Scheffler once again busting out his cheeseburger sliders served “Scheffler-style.”
The dinner itself has seen many items ranging from Hideki Matsuyama’s legendary dinner of sushi and sashimi to Nick Faldo’s traditional British meal of chips and mushed peas, to everything in between.
However, there is one dinner that stands by itself in a negative lighting.
And that’s Bubba Watson’s extremely bland-looking menu in 2013 that consisted of a Caesar salad, grilled chicken breast, green beans, mashed potatoes, and confetti cake.
Talk about a snooze.
Faldo joked with Watson at the time, taking to social media to jab at his rather plain menu.
“@BubbaWatson you had a year to decide on, grilled chicken, mashed potatoes, corn, macaroni & cheese!!! #HappyMeal #PlayLikeaChampion”
Fans chimed in as well.
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“Genuinely horrific,” one fan noted.
“Has to be fake,” another fan commented after seeing the menu.
“This is atrocious,” one more chimed in.
Faldo spoke to talkSPORT.com at this time last year about the dinner he served after winning the 1996 Masters (his third such victory) and claimed his third time around was the best.
“My fish and chips… That was my best one,” Faldo said. “It was very successful. Everybody loved that.
“I flew in the fillets from Harry Ramsden’s with these big chips as well – and mushy peas. They took one look at it, because they’re fluorescent green, aren’t they?
“They went, ‘What are these?’ I said, ‘Mushy peas’. They said, ‘Mushy what!?’ So that went down well.
“I had Sarson’s Vinegar as well. So I deem that one of the top three, honestly.”
Faldo then shed more light on Watson’s dinner in 2013, poking more fun.
“What was the worst one? Oh, it was Bubba, wasn’t it? When we had Chuck E. Cheese,” Faldo remarked.
“When we had a little hamburger and a little corn and a little ice cream.
“I think we had a milkshake as well. So, yeah, that was a lot.”
Of course the dinner is more than what is being served.
It’s about those who are in the room and the time spent with one another, as Faldo explained.
“It can get it can get quite emotional,” the golf legend added.
“Because some of the old boys are getting on, or you’ve lost somebody and reminisce some old stories and that sort of thing.
“We usually have a good laugh as well. Everybody ribs [each other], especially when Jack [Nicklaus] says, ‘Well, it was pretty easy in 1965’. Everybody nearly beat him up on that one, which was quite fun. ‘So because you won by 10 or whatever?’
“It’s usually very entertaining. I’m very, very, very proud to be part of that. It’s pretty special.”
The Champions Dinner has been served and the weekend is about to get underway, with the menu now officially up for grabs for next year’s legendary dinner.