Nick Faldo tells Rory McIlroy four things he wants on next year’s Masters Champions Dinner menu
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Nick Faldo is never one to shy away from giving his opinion, especially at The Masters.
After all, the three-time champion certainly knows what he is talking about when it comes to Augusta National.
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The Englishman recently posted a video on social media about Rory McIlroy’s second consecutive Masters victory.
While he did praise McIlroy’s golf, Faldo was more focused on the menu at next year’s Champions Dinner.
Photo by Steven Garcia/Getty ImagesNick Faldo makes Masters Champions Dinner requests to Rory McIlroy
The Masters Champions Dinner is one of the best traditions at Augusta, where the defending champion chooses the menu.
McIlroy’s food choices earned good reviews from his peers last week, and Faldo is already looking forward to next year’s dinner.
The 68-year-old made four suggestions to McIlroy to ensure that the 2026 menu meets his standards.
“The most important thing is what we are having for dinner. So I’ve got a couple of suggestions. We need Dublin Bay prawns. I love them,” Faldo said.
“Now, when I won in Killarney, there’s a restaurant in town, and they would take lobster, cook it, and mix it with some Cognac and cream secret sauce and put it back in the shell. That was fabulous.
“Then the other thing – please go to Lough Erne because the chef there had the finest chocolate mousse in the world.
“I promise you [it’s the best] in the world, because he gets his cocoa beans from France and all this sort of thing. He told me all about that. It’s gorgeous, even better than the French can do.
“And I think, even better, we should have a nice bottle or two of Rioja because Seve would have been 70 that week. So there are my suggestions.”
Who knows whether McIlroy will take any of Faldo’s advice when choosing his dishes next year?
Of the four suggestions, it seems most likely that the Northern Irishman would appreciate the idea of the Seve Ballesteros tribute.
McIlroy is a keen golf historian and has always spoken highly of Ballesteros – another of Europe’s greatest golfers.