Augusta Nationwide chairman Fred Ridley says the house of The Masters suffered intensive harm from final week’s Hurricane Helene however vows the match shall be performed subsequent April as deliberate.
Ridley mentioned Augusta Nationwide suffered “a variety of harm” from the storm, knocking out electrical energy and water on the famed course.
“There was a variety of harm and we now have 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 definitely is targeted on getting us again up and working, our workers have been so centered on the neighborhood 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 in case 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 impression,” Ridley mentioned. “Our workers, neighbours, associates and enterprise house owners want and deserve quick and significant help to beat the hardships being skilled at this second all through Augusta.”
Ridley mentioned that The Masters would start April 10 as scheduled.
“The 2025 Masters shall be held,” he mentioned. “Will probably be on the dates it’s scheduled to be held.”
