Tiger Woods recreates his own 2020 April Masters weekend while the event is postponed
The 2019 Masters Champion isn’t able to defend his title on the green this year until November.
But the five-time champion of the event, Tiger Woods, is still trying to keep the annual April Masters weekend alive during quarantine — starting with the traditional Champions Dinner.
The dinner is held every Tuesday night before the tournament with a guest list featuring golf’s elite to celebrate one of the biggest weekends on the PGA Tour’s calendar.
The attendees might have looked a little different this year, but the menu will sound familiar. As part of the tradition, the previous champion has the honor of choosing what’s served, and if play had proceeded as planned, Woods would have picked the same thing he did in 2006.
Tiger Woods revealed his menu for the Champions Dinner at the Tuesday night function preceding the Masters. The defending champion is going back to his last hosting duties in 2006 for steak and fajitas along with sushi and sashimi. He added that he is considering milkshakes,…
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And if you look in the picture above, you can just make out the platter of exactly what Woods planned to serve.
“I had exactly the same. We had steak and chicken pieces, sushi and sashimi. We had cupcakes and milkshakes for dessert. So it was exactly what I was going to serve.”
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As you can imagine, it wasn’t your typical evening, and at one point, the jacket even had to come off.
“After dinner, the jacket was taken off and then it was cupcakes in people’s hairs and stuff flying all over the place. You just can’t get the jacket dirty. We had a bunch of fun with it.”
That was only the beginning of the festivities to come.
Woods created his own entrance to Augusta National Golf Club, using two trees, an arrangement of yellow flowers and the all too familiar yellow flag fixed in the center of it all.
Our Magnolia Lane quarantine style. pic.twitter.com/YJZpchIBRc
— Tiger Woods (@TigerWoods) April 12, 2020
The five-time green jacket winner will also join the final rounds of the 2019 Masters re-air on CBS – he’ll discuss the emotions and significance of his fifth Masters win with sports analyst Jim Nantz.
An unforgettable Masters Sunday.
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