⛳Ben Crenshaw ‘a Little Concerned’ About Masters Champions Dinner, With LIV Golf Represented for First Time🏌️♂️
Crenshaw said he has a plan to kick-off the festivities, which he’s been a part of since 1985 when he hosted the dinner for the first time after his 1984 Masters victory. Crenshaw, who won 19 times on the PGA Tour, also won the Masters in 1995. He began his unofficial host role in 2005.
Perhaps adding another wrinkle of awkwardness are the recent comments by three-time champion Gary Player, who told the Times of London that he is frustrated by his inability to play the course with family members, among other things.
The Champions Dinner—or officially the Masters Club Dinner—was first held in 1952 at the behest of Ben Hogan, who won the tournament the year prior and wanted to use it as a way to “reminisce, swap banter and relax.”
LIV Golf has sued the PGA Tour for restraint of trade and the Tour has since countersued.
There are six past champions who are expected at the dinner who now play for LIV Golf: Mickelson (2004, 2006, 2010), Charl Schwartzel (2011), Bubba Watson (2012, 2014), Garcia (2017) Patrick Reed (2018) and Dustin Johnson (2020).
