Augusta Nationwide chairman Fred Ridley has vowed that subsequent yr’s Masters will happen as scheduled regardless of “numerous harm” brought on by Hurricane Helene.
Helene blew ashore in northern Florida late final week as a Class 4 hurricane and shortly moved north, with deaths additionally reported in Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia.
Georgia governor Brian Kemp stated the storm “actually spared no-one”.
Most individuals in and round Augusta, a metropolis of about 200,000 close to the South Carolina border, lacked energy.
Talking in a press convention forward of the Asia Pacific Novice Championship in Japan, Ridley reiterated that Augusta Nationwide was targeted on aiding the broader group to recuperate from the devastation, however did handle the subject of the Masters.
“Again to one of many first questions… the Masters can be held, [and] will probably be on the dates it’s scheduled to be held,” Ridley stated in quotes reported by Golf Digest.
The 2025 Masters is scheduled to be staged from April 10-13, with Scottie Scheffler set to defend his title.
Augusta Nationwide closed in Could for its annual summer time break and had been on account of reopen in mid-October.
“So far as the golf course, it actually was affected simply as the remainder of the group was,” Ridley added. “There was numerous harm and we’ve got lots of people working laborious to get us again up and working.
“We’ve been capable of handle our workers, however we’ve additionally been targeted on what the Purple Cross and different organisations are doing in Augusta, and our workers actually have been a giant a part of that, which I believe actually speaks for them and the tradition on the membership.”
