dramatic 2025 victory,<\/a> which ended an 11-year wait to complete the career Grand Slam of major titles.<\/p>\n“I think it would be pretty presumptuous to have a menu in your head before you actually win the tournament,” said the Northern Irishman.<\/p>\n
“But I always thought about, if I win the Masters one day, what would I want it to look like? What would I like to serve?<\/p>\n
“I felt this time around, I wanted to do something that I would enjoy, but I wanted to do something that all other champions would enjoy, as well.”<\/p>\n
Before McIlroy and former champions such as Scottie Scheffler, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson sit down, they will have a choice of four appetisers.<\/p>\n
“My Mum does these really, really nice dates stuffed with goat cheese wrapped in bacon, so I put those on the appetisers list. So thanks to Rosie for that one.<\/p>\n
“In the build-up to the Masters last year, I got this big shipment of elk and I was eating a lot of that, and I didn’t want elk to be the main course because I didn’t know if everyone would like that.<\/p>\n
“I incorporated that into the appetisers so I’m doing grilled elk sliders, which I think is fun.”<\/p>\n
There will also be shrimp tempura and Georgia peach and ricotta flatbread with hot honey.<\/p>\n
The starter is a nod to McIlroy’s favourite New York restaurant, Le Bernardin, where the 36-year-old always orders yellowfin tuna carpaccio.<\/p>\n
“That’s a fun one that the club worked with me on,” he added.<\/p>\n
“They went up to the restaurant and worked with the chefs, and made sure. They obviously wanted to get it right for the night.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rory McIlroy will use one of his mother’s favourite dishes among appetisers, that also include elk, when he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":531790,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[427,99],"class_list":["post-531789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531789","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=531789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/531789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/531790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=531789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=531789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=531789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}