The realm surrounding Augusta Nationwide was hit onerous by Hurricane Helene.
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Augusta Nationwide stated it’s “assessing the consequences” of Hurricane Helene however that the membership is concentrated on the local people lower than a day after the Class 4 storm battered a lot of the South, together with Augusta, Ga.
The membership’s chairman, Fred Ridley, launched a brief assertion on social media addressing the “catastrophic and historic” storm on Saturday morning after Helene tore via the area, bringing sturdy winds and extreme coastal flooding and leaving 225,000 Augustans with out energy.
“Our Augusta neighborhood has suffered catastrophic and historic influence from Hurricane Helene,” Ridley stated in a press release. “We at present are assessing the consequences at Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership.”
“Within the meantime our focus and efforts are foremost with our employees, neighbors and enterprise homeowners in Augusta,” Ridley stated. “Our ideas and prayers are with them in addition to everybody all through Georgia and the Southeast who’ve been affected.”
The Masters host is only one of 1000’s of companies and houses throughout the japanese seaboard that fell inside Helene’s path on Thursday and Friday. The Class 4 storm is essentially the most highly effective hurricane to strike america in a while, bringing sustained winds upwards of 140 mph and killing at the very least 44 individuals all through the South. Augusta, Ga. was within the middle of the storm’s path, leaving many throughout the golf world to invest on the membership and surrounding space’s security and well-being.
A photograph posted to the favored aerial imaging website Eureka Earth on Friday afternoon appeared to point out injury to dozens of bushes in one of many membership’s many perimeter parking tons, used for event patrons. No info has been shared about damages sustained inside membership gates, or to its golf course.
Augusta Nationwide isn’t any stranger to the wrath of Mom Nature. A robust ice storm struck down the membership’s famed Eisenhower Tree within the winter of 2015, and a subsequent thunderstorm in the course of the 2023 Masters despatched a pair of bushes tumbling over the seventeenth tee. No accidents had been sustained in both occasion.
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