Masters Champions Dinner: Get the scoop on Rory McIlroy's night
Rare remarks from Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player, along with a 'fantastic' food menu highlighted Rory McIlroy's Masters Champions Dinner on Tuesday.
AUGUSTA, Ga. — The clock hit 9:29 p. m.
on Tuesday night when a Mercedes SUV pulled into the driveway of a four-bedroom rental in North Augusta. Gripping tight to a Champions Dinner menu, the second-oldest living Masters Tournament winner exited the driver's door. “Crenshaw did something he had never done before,” 89-year-old Tommy Aaron said.
“He asked Jack Nicklaus and Gary Player to give remarks about Rory. ” What happened at the 2026 Masters Champions Dinner Two hours earlier, Ben Crenshaw rose from the table and said eight words. “The inevitable happened.
Rory McIlroy won the Masters," he said. It took Rory 17 years of heartbreak and scars. Yet for Crenshaw, Rory’s place inside the second-floor library of the Augusta National clubhouse was “inevitable.