{"id":943028,"date":"2026-05-07T04:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943028\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T04:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T04:24:15","slug":"taco-tuesday-rory-mcilroy-already-has-a-genius-idea-for-next-years-masters-champions-dinner-golf-news-and-tour-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/943028\/","title":{"rendered":"Taco Tuesday? Rory McIlroy already has a genius idea for next year&#8217;s Masters Champions Dinner | Golf News and Tour Information"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rory McIlroy has three more chances at an additional major this season, but that doesn\u2019t mean he isn&#8217;t already thinking about next year\u2019s Masters Champions Dinner. For the fourth time in golf history, a Masters winner will choose the menu for the most important dinner in the sport in successive years. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/rory-mcilroy-shares-masters-champions-dinner-menu-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">this is something<\/a> the career McIlroy cares a lot about.<\/p>\n<p>While chatting with Travis and Jason Kelce on the \u201cNew Heights\u201d podcast this week, McIlroy analyzed how he thought the 2025 dinner went and already seems to have a few ideas for next March. Gotta start early. You can\u2019t be embarrassing yourself in front of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/masters-2024-nick-faldo-mocks-worst-champions-dinner-bubba-watson-augusta-national-chuck-e-cheese\" class=\"editorial-link-no-style\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">golf&#8217;s food critics<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PcPJMhhw1Ng?si=517FF7-EEZWo2QSO&amp;start=3195\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cI think everyone enjoyed the dinner. I tried to do enough dishes that would please everyone,\u201d McIlroy said. \u201cAnd I\u2019m a big wine guy. I collect wine and I have done that for the last 10 years, so the wine selection was something that was pretty important to me.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI went pretty fancy this year. It\u2019s always on the Tuesday night, so I was thinking that I could just do a Taco Tuesday or something. We\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tacos would be a far cry from peach &amp; ricotta flatbread and wagyu filet mignon, but we\u2019re sure Rory McIlroy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/masters-2026-chef-eric-ripert-interview-rory-mcilroy-le-bernadin-masters-champions-dinner\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">and his team<\/a> won\u2019t just be ordering in from a local Augusta spot. Everything will be special. And no matter what\u2019s ordered, Adam Scott and Trevor Immelman will be in the best of moods.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a big, long table. Like a U-shape,\u201d McIlroy recalled. \u201cAnd at the bottom-left corner, you\u2019ve got Trevor Immelman and Adam Scott. And they just look like they\u2019re having the best time. They are just having the night of their lives. And I said to Adam and Trevor, \u2018If I don\u2019t win this year, just save me a seat down by you guys.\u2019 Then Adam texted me after, \u2018You gotta wait another year to sit with us.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Of course, McIlroy <a href=\"https:\/\/www.golfdigest.com\/story\/masters-2026-rory-mcilroy-champions-dinner-awkward-moment\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">had to mention the Ireland comments<\/a> that made some waves back home heading into the Masters. And still, not long after the explanation, McIlroy grimaced when Jason Kelce gave him a chance to redeem himself with an Irish theme in 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had a few people from the homeland [upset with me],&#8221; McIlroy admitted. &#8220;I made a quip in a press conference where I said, \u2018People have asked me why I didn\u2019t do more of an Irish theme?\u2019 And I said, \u2018I want to enjoy the dinner as well.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo I got a little sh*t from back home from that. They were coming at me pretty hard at the start of the week.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy has three more chances at an additional major this season, but that doesn\u2019t mean he isn&#8217;t&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":943029,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4106],"tags":[4285,263419,2826,40706,263418,263417,121749,4287,79,1426,263420,14304,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-943028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-golf","8":"tag-augusta-national","9":"tag-could-just-do-a-taco-tuesday-rory-mcilroy-already-thinking-about-next-years-masters-champions-dinner","10":"tag-golf","11":"tag-jason-kelce","12":"tag-masters-meal","13":"tag-masters2027","14":"tag-new-heights","15":"tag-rory-mcilroy","16":"tag-sports","17":"tag-story","18":"tag-taco-tuesday","19":"tag-travis-kelce","20":"tag-uk","21":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116531394498580424","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=943028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/943028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/943029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=943028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=943028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=943028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}