New drone footage shows extent of damage at Augusta National following Hurricane Helene - with one hole 'wrecked'

The devastating demolition near down by Hurricane Helene connected Augusta National has been laid bare by shocking caller drone footage. 

The location of the Masters was deed by the catastrophic hurricane that swept done the southeastern United States astatine the extremity of past month, leaving down unfathomable harm to millions of Americans.

The infamous play people fell unfortunate to the 130mph gusts, leaving the usually-pristine grounds of the notoriously-private nine successful disarray. 

Two weeks aboriginal - and six months until the biggest names successful play marque their mode down Magnolia Lane - caller footage shows the iconic undulating fairways inactive successful tatters. 

As the drone flies implicit the fabled Amen Corner, arsenic galore arsenic 5 felled trees tin beryllium seen strewn on the people with immoderate adjacent infringing connected the usually immaculate fairways of golf's astir celebrated course. 

In different shots, tee boxes look to person narrowly avoided demolition aft the monolithic trunks of Augusta's emblematic pines came crashing down astir the spots wherever the sport's biggest stars volition statesman their bids to gaffe into the Green Jacket successful April. 

Meanwhile, successful different photos Augusta's 16th spread - the legendary location of Tiger Woods' celebrated chip-in successful 2005 - lies successful ruination. 

The Par-3 is said to beryllium 'wrecked' with 2 fallen trees seen sprawled crossed Redbud's bunker-bordered sloping greenish and the hole's frontside h2o trap a muddied-brown color. 

After shocking imagery successful the contiguous aftermath of Helene previously showed Magnolia Lane wholly disheveled with histrion trunks blocking the celebrated entryway to the clubhouse, Augusta announced that it was 'assessing the damage.' 

Augusta National president Fred Ridley aboriginal provided a cardinal update connected the large tournament, insisting the conflict for the Green Jacket volition spell ahead. 

'The Masters volition beryllium held, [and] it volition beryllium connected the dates it's scheduled to beryllium held,' helium insisted during a property league astatine the Asia-Pacific Amateur Championship successful Japan earlier this month. 

The Masters is slated to beryllium held connected April 10-13 when World No. 1 Scottie Scheffler volition support his title.

Augusta National closed successful May for its yearly summertime interruption and had been owed to reopen successful mid-October.

Ridley confirmed that the iconic undulating fairways of the infamous Georgia people had sustained 'a batch of damage.'

'We person been without powerfulness and h2o and different essentials for a fig of days,' Ridley said. 'So it truly does impressment upon you what tin hap erstwhile there's a earthy catastrophe specified arsenic that.

'As acold arsenic the play course, it truly was affected conscionable arsenic the remainder of the assemblage was … determination was a batch of harm and we person a batch of radical moving hard to get america backmost up and running.'

Ridley shifted his attraction to the wider assemblage aft Augusta National announced Thursday that it had donated $5million to the Hurricane Helene Community Crisis Fund.

'We've had virtually dozens of radical moving astatine the club, and what I truly person been astir arrogant of is portion everyone surely is focused connected getting america up, backmost and running, our employees person been truthful focused connected the assemblage astatine large,' Ridley said.

'We've been capable to instrumentality attraction of our employees, but we've besides been focused connected what the Red Cross and different organizations are doing successful Augusta, and our employees truly person been a large portion of that, which I deliberation truly speaks for them and the civilization astatine the club.'

After the devastating storm, the rebuild begins not lone astatine Augusta National but besides for millions of Americans impacted by the catastrophe.

Helene's precocious winds and flooding killed much than 230 people, making it the deadliest hurricane to onslaught the US since Hurricane Maria ravaged Puerto Rico successful 2017.

PGA Tour cult icon John Daly was 1 of the galore Americans deed by the catastrophic effects of the hurricane that swept done the USA. 

The nonrecreational golfer revealed his location successful the Sunshine State, on with the properties of different household members, was wholly wiped out by the historical hurricane.

'It's devastating,' Daly told PGATour.com portion attending a PGA Tour Champions lawsuit successful Timiquana Country Club successful Jacksonville successful aboriginal October.

'It's the worst I've ever seen. I anticipation everyone gets harmless and gets their homes back. My bosom conscionable goes retired to everybody.'

'We're going to person mislaid three, possibly four,' helium said of his and his family's homes.

'I conscionable haven't adjacent gone backmost into mine,' helium added. 'I restructured it, fixed it up. Hadn't been successful it for 2 years; got each the worldly successful determination and past its each gone.'