Adam Scott backs Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth on Tiger Woods Masters dinner rule

Golf idols Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth have opened up on sitting subsequent to Tiger Woods on the prestigious Masters dinner

Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth

Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth have opened up on the Masters dinner (Picture: Jared C. Tilton, Getty Photos) This text accommodates affiliate hyperlinks, we are going to obtain a fee on any gross sales we generate from it. Be taught extra

Adam Scott has echoed the feelings of Scottie Scheffler and Jordan Spieth concerning their reluctance to sit down subsequent to Tiger Woods on the annual Masters dinner. As a part of the long-standing custom at Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership, a Champions Dinner is held two days earlier than the match will get underway, with the ninetieth version of the key kicking off on Thursday.

Defending champion Rory McIlroy is chargeable for internet hosting this week’s dinner, which brings collectively former Masters winners spanning a number of a long time. Nevertheless, in relation to the seating preparations on the evening, issues are slightly much less formal, a minimum of on the floor. Whereas there is no such thing as a official rule dictating the place visitors ought to sit, it’s extensively understood that sure spots are reserved for a choose few, particularly the likes of Woods and 18-time main champion Jack Nicklaus.

Adam Scott – who claimed the Masters title in 2013 – might be in attendance on the prestigious dinner on Tuesday, and through his look on The Rick Shiels Golf Present, he confirmed Scheffler and Spieth’s assertion that it’s an unwritten rule to not sit beside Woods and Nicklaus.

The Australian golfer mentioned: “There are just a few seats which can be like completely reserved. You do not sit in Jack’s seat, do not sit in Tiger’s seat. Everybody else sort of leads to an analogous place yr after yr and the yr that you simply win and also you’re internet hosting the dinner, you are [at] the the top of the desk for that one time.

“Then, you have to discover your seat which can also be daunting and I simply ran down the left aspect to Trevor Immelman. We might been buddies since junior golfers, so I used to be like, ‘Proper, I will sit subsequent to my mate for the remainder of our lives at this dinner.'”

Two-time Masters winner Scheffler make clear the seating preparations throughout a press convention on the Arnold Palmer Invitational, saying: “Zach [Woods] and Jordan [Spieth] at all times sat subsequent to one another, and I undoubtedly did not ask Jordan to sit down by him, as a result of he would have accomplished one thing to guarantee that I did not have a spot to sit down.”

Several golfers pose while at The Masters Dinner

The Masters Dinner takes place every year (Picture: The Masters)

“So I sort of checked out Zach, I used to be like, ‘Hey, the place are you sitting this yr?’ And he informed me, and he was good and let me be part of him. However I undoubtedly wasn’t going to ask Jordan for that as a result of he would have messed with me.”

Scheffler acknowledged that whereas seats usually are not formally assigned, a level of unwritten etiquette does exist, explaining: “There’s somewhat protocol. Guys have, like, I might say, sections the place they sit. However you progress round somewhat bit. There aren’t any essentially assigned seats, however I am undoubtedly not going to sit down within the space the place Tiger and Jack sit.”

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