THE ANNUAL CHAMPIONS Dinner before the Masters is the peak of golf’s old-money stuffiness. But if you’ve earned a green jacket, you’ve earned the right to serve up whatever you want, traditions bedamned.
Most returning champions use the menu to showcase a little of their national flavours and serve up some dishes that are deliciously at odds with the up-tight Augusta ethos.
Sandy Lyle served haggis, Danny Willett offered up a Sunday roast of a Tuesday evening, Vijay Singh introduced Panang curry to the golf fraternity, the 22-year-old Tiger Woods asked for burgers and chips and Angel Cabrera – the absolute hero – brought Argentine barbecue to the table.
So, Sergio, what’ll we have?
International salad! Are you kidding me, Garcia? There have been Masters champions from 11 countries, being inspired by them doesn’t narrow this down enough to make it a thing. This is a cop out.
Okay, okay… breathe, food fans.
For main course there’s ‘Traditional Spanish Lobster Rice‘. Sounds fine, who doesn’t love paella? We just felt Garcia could have shown a bit of imagination here.
It’s not even the first time this decade that paella has been on the Masters menu (Phil Mickelson, 2011), take the platform to show that Spain has other food to offer.
For dessert, Garcia treated the room to his wife Angela’s Tres Leches Cake. The42 is not a regular Bake Off viewer, so this appears to be a sponge of some sort. Grand.
Hopefully this year’s green jacket can go to a much more worthy gourmand.
It was a stupid statement by the county board and embarrassing for most Cork Gaa fans. They should have said that Cork came close and will learn from it and move on. Blaming the ref is childish and embarrassing. However, I think what they said regarding Cuthbert was correct. It is terrible that he got so much personal abuse from keyboard warriors. He tried his best and made some progress with the team. Going forward John Cleary is the right man for the job and I hope he takes up the role sooner rather than later. The Rebels will rise again. It Will just take time.
I keep reading how Cork GAA fans are so embarrassed by this. I am a Cork GAA fan and I am not embarrassed, I am absolutely delighted with this statement. Anything that shows up the county board for what they are the better.
Many from out side the county didn’t understand the need for the strikes, to many it appeared to be a team of primadonnas full of their importance and blaming the county board for their failures was just a convenient excuse for their failures. It seemed crazy to blame the demise of Cork GAA on the County Board and Frank. These games were lost on the field surely but know Cork are setup to fail in many cases. Palls of the board get the top coaching positions whether they are the best candidates or not.
Finally those outside the county might be starting to see what we are dealing with. It’s a shame that airing our dirty laundry in public seems to be the only way but unfortunately it is. Anything that exposed the ineptitude of our county board and puts pressure on Frank and co is a good thing in my book.
what a shower of dopes
Unbelievable in this day and age that a county board could let a childish statement out to the media and expect no fall out from it. While some of their grievances are well merited they should of held fire and not embarrass the proud people of cork. Who in their right mind would let their name go forward for the senior job now. Until their is a complete clear out of county board officials this I am afraid is par for the course going forward. Finally I think the clubs of cork will react properly to this embarrassment and finally do something about it.
hahaha can’t believe that one
One word of advice for the Cork county board whose effortless teams don’t need you…retire.