Hello, friends, and welcome to today’s edition of the Rogers Report! I just got in from the course after following Megha Ganne’s stellar round (more on that later) and finished a lovely Italian lunch here at Champions Retreat. It’s been an eventful day at the Augusta National Women’s Amateur, but just in case you want to get caught up on Tuesday in Augusta, you can click here.
While I was cooking up some tacos for dinner at our bare-bones AirBnb on Tuesday evening (I would not recommend chopping vegetables without a cutting board), the Augusta National Women’s Amateur participants were enjoying a much, much more glamorous evening. They spent the eve of the tournament at Augusta National for a dinner hosted by Chairman Fred Ridley, and to the surprise of absolutely no one, it looked perfect.
When I was the age most of these young women are, I was just hoping to get to the college dining hall to get something — anything! — to eat before it closed. Not the gals at the ANWA, though. They got dolled up, spent some time on the lawn behind the clubhouse (which is the undisputed No. 1 hang spot in all of golf) and then got to sit down with the chairman for a private dinner.
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Ridley served crab cocktail with Louis sauce as an appetizer, followed by filet mignon and king salmon for the entree. They had roasted broccolini and beet puree with au jus and beurre blanc.
And for the most important part of the meal (dessert), there was passion fruit cake with white chocolate and strawberry cream as well as passion fruit sorbet. I’m all in on any meal that includes ice cream or sorbet, so this sounded like the perfect way to ring in one of the best weeks in golf.
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When I arrived at Champions Retreat for Round 1 of the Augusta National Women’s Amateur on Wednesday, the first thing I noticed was how many junior golfers were there. Girls of all ages were dressed in their favorite golf clothes to watch the women they look up to tee it up in one of the most special tournaments of the year.
