Chips are down for golf's past masters
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Your support makes all the difference.The ramifications of Nick Faldo's shock victory at last year's US Masters, when he overturned a six-shot deficit to beat Greg Norman by five, continue. Instead of sitting down to shark or kangaroo in Augusta the week after next, all the former winners will be served a traditional British fish supper. Faldo (right), a three-time Masters champion, has ordered pounds 2,000 worth of cod to be flown in from Grimsby, to be served with chips and mushy peas.
Each Tuesday of Masters week, the previous year's winner hosts the Past Champions Dinner in the Augusta National clubhouse and gets to set the menu. After his two other victories, Faldo chose steak and kidney pie and shepherd's pie. Of his fish supper he said: "I hope the guys like it. The mushy peas are coming from Harry Ramsdens. At least they are green, so they should be okay at Augusta."
In what was an almost exclusively US club for many years, past champions have had to get used to a varied diet - 11 of the last 19 winners have been from outside the US.
Bernhard Langer had spatzle (German noodles) in 1985, while Jose-Maria Olazabal served fish in 1994. Ian Woosnam's menu after his victory in 1991 was leek and potato soup, leg of lamb marinated with Welsh mead and honey, and apple sponge with Amaretto.
But the company was shocked when Sandy Lyle served up haggis. "It was funny to watch ... they were all acting like schoolkids, pushing it around with their forks," recalled the Scot. Andy Farrell
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