Augusta Nationwide chairman Fred Ridley says the house of The Masters suffered in depth injury from final week’s Hurricane Helene however vows the match might be performed subsequent April as deliberate.
Ridley stated Augusta Nationwide suffered “quite a lot of injury” from the storm, knocking out electrical energy and water on the famed course.
“There was quite a lot of injury and we’ve lots of people working arduous to get us again up and working. We’ve had dozens of individuals working on the membership, and what I actually have been most happy with is whereas everybody actually is concentrated on getting us again up and working, our workers have been so targeted on the group at giant.
“We don’t actually know precisely what that’s going to imply so far as the golf course is worried, however I can inform should you it’s humanly doable, we’ll be again in enterprise sooner slightly than later.”
Ridley additionally introduced that the membership had donated $5 million to a fund supporting native restoration efforts from the storm, which battered the southeastern United States final week.
“I used to be in Augusta within the days instantly after the storm and have seen firsthand its devastating influence,” Ridley stated. “Our workers, neighbours, buddies and enterprise house owners want and deserve speedy and significant help to beat the hardships being skilled at this second all through Augusta.”
Ridley stated that The Masters would start April 10 as scheduled.
“The 2025 Masters might be held,” he stated. “It will likely be on the dates it’s scheduled to be held.”
