The 12th and 12th Augusta National hole, presented in April 2024, returns to the Augusta Country Club.
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In Augusta National, they love their TREES. It’s kind of funny because Bobby Jones took his inspiration for the course from Old course in St. Andrewswhich moves over a flat narrow stripe with unmoined desert, coastal. But in Augusta NationalIn a wide and hilly tract that was once a nursery, they adore lumber.
When KettleA tall pine at 17 that was soft in the cutting range for the president’s shooting, was fatally damaged in a 2014 ice storm, there was an awakening for him. Billy Payne, then the club chairman, offered a solemn statement in a news statement reading as a quote in an OBIT. The tree itself was a donor to the organs. Its wood was used in a remodeling project of the legendary club of the club.
In a much more important way, Payne’s successor, Fred RidleyThere was also his share of tree issues, especially after the Hellenic hurricane ran through Augusta in late September. The club’s highest priority, Ridley said in the immediate consequences of the storm, was to help thousands of Augustans whose life turned upside down and Hellenic rain brought to Richmond County. The photo painted through the latest interviews, with a meteorologist and a small part of Augustans from different spheres of life, reveals a city after the storm that will never be fully recovered, just like in the center of the city of Augusta was never fully healed by a 1970 racing riot.
Reforestation projects are best measured in half -century reports. Tens of thousands of trees crashed across augusta have contributed to despair. For a hot city like Augusta with air quality issues and regular heat advisory warnings-throughout the late spring, summer and early autumn there are many days when the high afternoon is north of 90 degrees.
What the January fires were for the Palisades of the Pacific, in Los Angeles, Hellenic was in Augusta. In the magnificent scheme of things, the Movement of the 2025 winning genesis from Riviera in Torrey Pines has no consequences. Of course, if you are the host of this tournament, like Tiger Woods is, you can’t NO be consumed by the disruption of the fire. But Woods looked all the right notes as the fires were enraged, just as Ridley did in the immediate Hellenic consequences.
These events came to mind the Oakland-San Francisco world series, interrupted by a fatal earthquake. Fay VincentThe new Baseball Commissioner said then, “Our little modest game does not mean much at this time.” But the show, always, continues. After a 10-day delay, the series continued. Did he win in four. Ludwig Aberg won La Old Open in San Diego. On Sunday evening, a exhausted player will wear a green coat in the Butler cabin at the end of this 90th masters, and no one will talk about the fallen trees and the anger of Helen.
But the issues of Augusta trees will not appear. This will be true in Augusta National, in the neighbor of Augusta Country Club, in the Augusta Municipal Golf Course and in thousands of hectares managed by the Augusta Parks and Recreation Department. For the first time in the years, you can see the roof of the Augusta National Club from the house of half beyond the seventh green at the country club Augusta, half a mile or more. Does it matter? Of course not. But it’s one thing.
The country’s club has a wonderful, movable south course (Zoysa Fairways) which is at the center of the social life of the high august harvest. (many Social.) The club lost approximately 1,000 trees in the storm, and now there are insights from its new neighbor, on the other side of Creek Rae. Before the 100-year-old storm of last fall, the distant end of the direction range in the country’s club was determined by a wall of graceful trees. There are now holes in that wall, and you can see some of the modest houses of the Augusta Sand Hills historic neighborhood. Jim Dent grew up in Sand Hills, as well as many old Augusta Country Club and national caddies of Augusta.
Why does everyone in Augusta talk about trees in front of masters?
A few miles away, pieces – Augusta Muni – lost even more trees, perhaps up to 2,000, with an estimate. There was a minimal amount of trees work there because the pieces (nicknamed for a vegetable garden near its Pro Store) has been closed since January 1st. The course is undergoing a Nut Soup Renewal Project that is part of a philanthropic effort led by national leadership Augusta. There are patch regulations that are suspicious about this ambitious project for a modest city ownership course. They liked the course, in all its steep, tame with trees, as it was. Despite Hellenic, the course changed forever. Now there will be less chance of making a “boat”, a money after hitting a tree, the first cousin in the sand.
As for Augusta National, the consensus number of trees lost by Helena is 900. Of course, Augusta being Augusta, an exact number will never be known. In the years after the Tiger Woods 12-storey victory in the 1997 masters, the club will highlight the planting of a tree here and a tree there, in the name of strategy. It added to 23 trees, something like that. Woods has said over the years that it looks more like a thousand. Trees determine tee shooting at 2 and 3. Tee shots at 11 and 18 emerge from a corridor of trees. You can maxit your shoot air at 12 in a tree stand. Has been done before.
There are homeowners in Richmond County and the circles that surround what they want to blame Augusta National for the long expectations they have endured to get the trees removal crews in their homes. They believe that Augusta National, with its deep pockets, bought all local talent in its efforts to remove and replace the fallen trees.
