The Masters was a runaway from the ceremonial first tee shot. Jordan Spieth was unreal from tee to green, from Thursday to Sunday. Phil Mickelson and Justin Rose tried their best to create a little Sunday drama, but Spieth was just too good. So where were you going to find some Sunday golf drama?
Well if you follow Dan Jenkins on twitter, the Golf Digest writer created some for you, in the form of his completely unofficial, totally made up Match Play Food Bracket. In a series of tweets on Sunday morning, Jenkins pitted eight foods against each other and advanced each food with criteria that only he knows.
Time for the Dan Jenkins Favorite Masters Food competition. Opening quarterfinal: egg-salad sandwich advances over the chili dog.
— Dan Jenkins (@danjenkinsgd) April 12, 2015
Quarterfinal 2 in the Dan Jenkins Favorite Masters Food competition: fried chicken over chopped barbecue. (This isn’t Fort Worth.)
— Dan Jenkins (@danjenkinsgd) April 12, 2015
Quarterfinal 3 in the Dan Jenkins Favorite Masters Food competition: Peach cobbler over biscuits and gravy. In a playoff. — Dan Jenkins (@danjenkinsgd) April 12, 2015
Quarterfinal 4 in the Dan Jenkins Masters Food competition: Country ham, eggs & red-eye gravy over the pimento-cheese sandwich fanatics. — Dan Jenkins (@danjenkinsgd) April 12, 2015
Semis in the Dan Jenkins Masters Food competition: country ham, eggs & red-eye gravy vs. egg-salad sandwich; peach cobbler vs. fried chicken — Dan Jenkins (@danjenkinsgd) April 12, 2015
Semifinal 1 in the Dan Jenkins Masters Food competition: peach cobbler over fried chicken. Like trying to pick one of your kids over another — Dan Jenkins (@danjenkinsgd) April 12, 2015
Semifinal 2 in the Dan Jenkins Masters Food competition: country ham, eggs & red-eye gravy over egg-salad sandwich. Eggs over egg. — Dan Jenkins (@danjenkinsgd) April 12, 2015
Dan Jenkins Masters Food final: country ham, eggs & red-eye gravy holds off an ice-cream challenge by peach cobbler. Tip your waitresses. — Dan Jenkins (@danjenkinsgd) April 12, 2015
Thoughts:
- Give the peach cobbler credit … it advanced all the way to the final out of a tough bracket. They’re the Wichita State of food.
- Lots of egg related dishes made it. The barbecue conference is probably complaining about the food version of the Big Ten.
- The chili dog is really going to take a long, hard look at itself for next year. All that hype and a first round exit. Recruiting will be key. Raw onions? Red Peppers? Toasted bun?
- Same for the Pimento Cheese sandwich, whose demise as a mythical favorite, if you believe people who have tried it, has been coming for some time now.
- I’m taking this way, way, way too seriously.
But give Jenkins credit. These wasn’t just some off the cuff choices here. This took research. Lots of research.
Sitting next to the legend @danjenkinsgd as he eats a pimento cheese sandwich. Doesn’t get more #Masters than that. pic.twitter.com/8NSgf7g7rg
— Alex Myers (@AlexMyers3) April 11, 2015
The good thing is that with prices being better than you would expect, Jenkins could buy all of these items for less than twenty bucks.
(Photo of the legendary Pimento Cheese Sandwich by Jamie Squire/Getty Images)
