Jordan Spieth Gives His Honest Reaction to Rory McIlroy’s Champions Dinner Menu

The spread, which McIlroy curated, ran from bacon-wrapped dates, a tribute to his mother, to grilled elk sliders, rock shrimp tempura, and a peach-and-ricotta flatbread for appetizers. Then came the Wagyu filet mignon for the main. Spieth had thoughts on that, too.

“The Wagyu filet, I mean, it was very good,” he said.

As reigning champion, McIlroy was responsible for the entire evening, the menu, the wine, and the bill, which can reportedly stretch anywhere from a few thousand dollars to $12,000. By all accounts, he spent wisely.

The Wine List of Rory McIlroy Was the Real Star in the Champions Dinner

The food choice got attention, but more than that, the wine choices of Rory McIlroy stood out just as much.

He served the 2022 Domaine Leflaive Batard Montrachet, the first white wine he said he actually liked, along with the 1990 Chateau Lafite Rothschild, the same wine he drank the night he won the Masters.

The dessert wine, a 1989 Chateau d’Yquem from McIlroy’s birth year, was described as “like liquid gold.”

Just a year ago, McIlroy was driving up Magnolia Lane on a Tuesday night, watching past champions have drinks on the balcony and hoping no one noticed him. This time, he was the one leading the room.

He had said earlier that the speech mattered more to him than the food. From Spieth’s reaction, both were a success.