The Masters 2025: Tests on Monday delayed by Storms in Augusta
Analysis by IAIN CARTER, correspondent of the BBC golf in Augusta
The entire Georgia, and many surrounding states in the United States, are still recovering from the effects of Hurricane Helene last September, which left hundreds of deaths or missing and caused damage to a value of billions of dollars.
There were 37 deaths reported in Georgia, many of those following the fall of the trees.
The edges of the roads are still populated by fallen trees; oaks, ashes and giant pines. Long -lasting houses bring scars of serious roof damage, largely protected only by fragile telons.
Augusta National immediately donated $ 5 million for the local rescue operation. It was a natural disaster that brought together a community that otherwise is in the spotlight only in the second week of April.
The famous course was hammering. The trees went down to hundreds, damaging one of the most famous vegetables of golf on the sixteenth par-three.
Walking through the course is now a lighter and less claustrophobic experience. Now you can see through forest areas that previously screening individual holes and have made her isolated stations.
Now, the separation of the ninth and the first fairways is less cluttered. Going down the eleventh you can see on the path in the nearby Augusta Country Club.
The wooded area to the right of the sixteenth green just placed has been stripped, which means that there will be less shadows on the Put surface when the best golfers in the world will begin their challenge for the famous green jacket on Thursday.
