Augusta Nationwide Chairman Fred Ridley is assured The Masters can be held as scheduled in April because the membership directs its consideration and sources to serving to the realm get well from devastating harm from Hurricane Helene.
Augusta Nationwide and the Group Basis for the Central Savannah River Space introduced a joint donation of about $7.5 million to a fund offering important companies all through the better 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 “plenty of 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 probably the most happy with is whereas everybody definitely is concentrated on getting us again up and operating, our workers have been so centered on the neighborhood at massive,” 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 plenty of harm. We’ve got lots of people working onerous to get us again up and operating.
“We do not actually know precisely what that is going to imply however I can inform in the event you it is humanly potential, we’ll be again in enterprise sooner relatively than later.”
Hurricane Helene made landfall as a Class 4 system in Florida’s Massive Bend area and brought on monumental harm because it transfer by Florida, Georgia, the Carolinas, Tennessee and Virginia. The loss of life toll is now nicely north of 200.
Rae’s creek, which flows by 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 sources that enable for rebuilding and even creating new buildings in brief time.
It’s closed through the summer season 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 shall be held, will probably be held on the dates that it is scheduled to be held, and I feel we now have just a few bulletins to make with respect to that undertaking. So keep tuned,” Ridley mentioned.
He additionally mentioned the membership, CSRA and the Medical School of Georgia Basis have made separate contributions to help restoration efforts led by the American Crimson Cross.
“We’ve got been in a position to care for our workers however we have additionally been centered on what the Crimson Cross and different organisations are doing at Augusta,” Ridley mentioned.
“And our workers have actually been a giant a part of that, which I feel actually speaks for them and the tradition on the membership.”
