Augusta Nationwide Chairman Fred Ridley is assured The Masters can be held as scheduled in April because the membership directs its consideration and assets to serving to the realm get better from devastating harm from Hurricane Helene.
Augusta Nationwide and the Neighborhood Basis for the Central Savannah River Space introduced a joint donation of about $7.5 million to a fund offering important providers all through the higher Augusta space.
Ridley was just a few days late arriving in Japan for the Asia-Pacific Beginner. He mentioned the house of the Masters sustained “numerous harm,” similar to the remainder of the Georgia metropolis on the border with South Carolina.
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“We have had actually dozens of individuals working on the membership and what I’ve actually been essentially the most pleased with is whereas everybody actually is targeted on getting us again up and working, our staff have been so centered on the neighborhood at giant,” Ridley mentioned at a information convention to kick off the Asia-Pacific Beginner.
Scottie Scheffler received the 2024 version of the Masters. Getty
“So far as the golf course, it actually was affected simply as the remainder of the neighborhood was,” he mentioned.
“There was numerous harm. We’ve got lots of people working laborious to get us again up and working.
“We do not actually know precisely what that is going to imply however I can inform in case you it is humanly attainable, we’ll be again in enterprise sooner moderately than later.”
Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Class 4 system in Florida’s Huge Bend area and induced monumental harm because it transfer via Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia. The dying toll is now effectively north of 200.
Rae’s creek, which flows via the southernmost nook of the property, flooded and inundated vital sections of the course.
Drone footage exhibits the picturesque Magnolia Lane, the doorway highway as much as the clubhouse, was additionally considerably broken.
The Masters is scheduled for April 10-13. The membership has assets that enable for rebuilding and even creating new constructions in brief time.
It’s closed in the course of the summer time and was not scheduled to reopen till mid-October. The membership didn’t say if that had been delayed.
Volunteers working a barbecue within the wake of Hurricane Helene in Augusta. Town hosts the Masters each April. AP
“I am assured … that the Masters will likely be held, it is going to be held on the dates that it is scheduled to be held, and I believe we now have just a few bulletins to make with respect to that mission. So keep tuned,” Ridley mentioned.
He additionally mentioned the membership, CSRA and the Medical School of Georgia Basis have made separate contributions to assist restoration efforts led by the American Pink Cross.
“We’ve got been capable of maintain our staff however we have additionally been centered on what the Pink Cross and different organisations are doing at Augusta,” Ridley mentioned.
“And our staff have actually been a giant a part of that, which I believe actually speaks for them and the tradition on the membership.”
