If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.
That’s the Scottie Scheffler approach to cooking up his menu for the Champions Dinner on Tuesday of Masters week —April 5th for those of you scoring at home.
It’s one of the traditions like none other during Masters week —the defending champion hosts a dinner at Augusta National’s clubhouse for all the past champions and not only picks the menu but picks up the check. It’s a tradition started by Ben Hogan in 1952.
When Scheffler won the 2023 Masters, his menu for the dinner featured cheeseburger sliders served “Scottie style,” firecracker shrimp, tortilla soup, Texas ribeye steak, or black and red fish and then a warm chocolate chip skillet cookie with milk and ice cream for dessert.
During his appearance on Golf’s Subpar podcast, Scheffler, who won the Masters in April for the second time, was asked if he’d been giving any thought to his menu for the big night yet. Scheffler answered that he had.
“I’m wondering if I should just have the same exact menu,” he said. “It was pretty good. It’s all my favorite foods. I don’t know really what I could do differently. I think it would be kind of fun just to have the exact same food.”
If Scheffler repeats the same meal, he wouldn’t be the first to do so. He would be taking a page out of the Tiger Woods playbook. Tiger famously served cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, French fries and milkshakes in 1998, his first year as host of the dinner, but in 2003 for his third time calling the shots he repeated the menu of porterhouse steak, chicken and sushi from his 2002 menu.
Scheffler still has some time to reconsider but there’s no reason to mess with a menu that includes sliders “Scottie style” and how do you top the warm chocolate chip skillet cookie anyway?
Insinuating that Scheffler will win even more Green Jackets before his career is over, podcast co-host Drew Stoltz joked, “They’re going to get tired of having that exact same meal.”