What is the Masters Champions Dinner and what's on the menu?
The annual Champions Dinner has been hosted since 1952
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It's one of the most exclusive dinners in sport, and you can only gain entry by wearing the illustrious Masters green jacket.
Past winners and the chairman of the Augusta National Golf Club gather for the annual Champions Dinner two days before the start of what many see as golf's premiere event.
BBC Sport's Ask Me Anything team take a look at how the Champions Dinner started, this year's menu, and some standout dishes from the past.
What is the Masters Champions Dinner?
The Masters Champions Dinner was the idea of American golfer Ben Hogan.
The 1951 winner suggested a dinner to bring together previous champions - and co-founders Bobby Jones and Clifford Robert - on the eve of the 1952 tournament.
The tradition continued, but in 1959 the festivities switched from the Friday, following the second round, to the Tuesday.
It is not known when the tradition of the defending champion choosing the menu started. It is believed Bernhard Langer's meal in 1986 inspired champions to put more thought into their dinner to make it more unique.
What was on the 2025 menu?
Scottie Scheffler previously hosted the champions dinner in 2023
Scottie Scheffler is the defending champion and had the honour of being the Champions Dinner host for the second time.
Here's what he had in store for his esteemed guests...
For the appetisers, Scheffler served cheeseburger sliders 'Scottie-style', firecracker shrimps, and 'Papa Scheff's' meatball and ravioli bites.
Texas-style chili is the first course, followed by a choice of wood-fire cowboy ribeye steak or blackened redfish for the main.
A warm chocolate chip skillet cookie served with vanilla bean ice cream was the dessert offering.
Cheeseburgers, lobster ravioli and haggis - menus through the years
Scheffler's menu was similar to the one he served in 2023 but omitted the tortilla soup starter.
Tiger Woods has hosted the Champions Dinner on five occasions.
His first menu in 1998 included cheeseburgers, chicken sandwiches, chips and milkshakes. His most recent - in 2020 - featured 'Augusta Roll' (tempura shrimp, spicy tuna and avocado) to start, followed by a main course of prime steak and chicken fajitas plus a trio of desserts which included a flan, churros with chocolate sauce and sopapillas - a Mexican fried dough dessert.
Patrick Reed's 2018 menu included a choice of Caesar salad or a salad consisting of a wedge of iceberg lettuce, followed by ribeye steak and desserts of tiramisu, creme brulee and cheesecake.
Bubba Watson served the same menu in 2013 and 2015: a Caesar salad, grilled chicken served with cornbread, macaroni and cheese plus confetti cake and ice cream. Sir Nick Faldo said it was the worst one he had tasted.
English three-time champion Faldo's 1997 menu was very simple - tomato soup for the starter and a main of fish and chips, with the fish imported from Grimsby.
Scot Sandy Lyle, in1989, had a meal of haggis, mashed potato and mashed turnips.
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