Augusta Nationwide chairman Fred Ridley says the house of The Masters suffered intensive injury from final week’s Hurricane Helene however vows the match can be performed subsequent April as deliberate.
Ridley mentioned Augusta Nationwide suffered “a number of injury” from the storm, knocking out electrical energy and water on the famed course.
“There was a number of injury and we’ve got lots of people working onerous 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 staff have been so centered on the neighborhood at massive.
“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 the event you it’s humanly attainable, we’ll be again in enterprise sooner relatively 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 staff, neighbours, buddies and enterprise house owners want and deserve fast 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 can be held,” he mentioned. “It is going to be on the dates it’s scheduled to be held.”