Dustin Johnson, the Champions Dinner menu

Crusted pork and lobster for an appetizer. Then a Caesar Salad. So a fillet mignon with potatoes. And to finish off a peach dessert and an apple pie with vanilla ice cream. This is the menu chosen by Dustin Johnson for the traditional "Dinner of Champions" that precedes The Masters, the first Major of 2021 scheduled from Thursday 8 to Sunday 11 April in Augusta, Georgia (USA).

Dustin Johnson, The Champions Dinner

The Champions Dinner, an event that brings together all the former winners of the competition on Tuesday evening (of the week of the tournament) (there will be no Tiger Woods, recovering from a serious car accident), will not reserve big surprises from Johnson, winner of the tournament in the November 2020.

Dustin Johnson, the number 1 in the world, will not go to the Olympic Games.

There is a real risk of being faced with a situation in which not only Dustin Johnson, but also several other big names could sacrifice the five-circle event, which in terms of life in the golf circuit is still very young. It remains to be seen whether the coming months will confirm this trend. In 2016, there were many who gave up fearing Zika: in addition to the DJ himself and Jordan Spieth in the USA, not all the Australian big names went to Rio, from Jason Day down, nor did Rory McIlroy (by the way, he declared his Olympic flag will be that of Ireland as such; on the circuit he plays for Northern Ireland as well as Graeme McDowell) and, for Italy, Francesco Molinari.

Regarding the situation in the United States, there are currently only four non-Americans in the top 15 of the OWGR. This means that the Americans are the only ones who can field four players, while out of the top 15 the maximum is two per country, counting a field of 60, both among men and women. Staying on the men's sector, to date the qualifiers would be Justin Thomas, Collin Morikawa, Bryson DeChambeau and Xander Schauffele. With three months of abundant golf left, however, it is all too evident that the situation could change. Given the very high number of USA in the world rankings, an avalanche of situations opens up for which different countries can aspire to two places.

The European Tour Qualifying School has been bolstered by the addition of four new venues ahead of the competition’s return in 2021. Montado Hotel & Golf Resort in Portugal and Australia’s Rosebud Country Club will both make their long-awaited debuts in 2021 after the Qualifying School was cancelled in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, while Denmark’s Lyngbygaard Golf and Empordà Golf, in Spain, have also been added to the schedule for 2021. The European Tour Qualifying School will visit 14 venues from September to November and gives players – professional and amateur – the opportunity to earn their place on Europe’s top tier for the 2022 season.

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