Augusta in the Summer - Eeeeek!

[iacas]

As you may know, Augusta National shuts down shortly after The Masters and doesn't re-open until right about now, I believe.

Check out this photo. I made it from composite photos from Google Maps. Eek! Would you have guessed Augusta National could ever look this burnt out in the summer?

Full-sized image here: http://thesandtrap.com/b/imgs/courses/augusta_in_the_summer.jpg .

[Zeph]

No worries. If you zoom in, you see people working at it. Though they seem to be on a break at the moment. http://maps.google.com/maps?client=opera&rls;=en&oe;=utf-8&channel;=suggest&um;=1&ie;=UTF-8&q;=augusta+national&fb;=1&hq;=augusta+national&cid;=0,0,5880355317064729879&ei;=8D6STregE6z44QSWxf2fBg&sa;=X&oi;=local_result&ct;=image&ved;=0CAMQ_BI Are the maps on Google Maps dated?

[jamo]

Cool picture, nice job on the editing. [quote name="Zeph" url="/t/53727/augusta-in-the-summer-eeeeek#post_652968"]No worries. If you zoom in, you see people working at it. Though they seem to be on a break at the moment. http://maps.google.com/maps?client=opera&rls;=en&oe;=utf-8&channel;=suggest&um;=1&ie;=UTF-8&q;=augusta+national&fb;=1&hq;=augusta+national&cid;=0,0,5880355317064729879&ei;=8D6STregE6z44QSWxf2fBg&sa;=X&oi;=local_result&ct;=image&ved;=0CAMQ_BI Are the maps on Google Maps dated?[/quote] Try Google Earth. It might be only in the application, but there should be a timeline at the bottom that lets you see pictures from different times of year.

[michaeljames92]

holy crap. That is seriously ratty. Erik, when you say shuts down after the masters, what do you mean? no one plays on it?

[JetFan1983]

Yea, the Georgia summers are just too brutal to keep it in the shape they'd like it to be. It's completely closed from around May to sometime in October. Also, they make all their course alterations -- if any -- during this down time.

[RemyM]

First off, the course is annually over-seeded with rye grass everywhere except the greens; rye grass will die off in the GA summer.  It also looks like certain greens are being rebuilt and have some kind of cover over them and they could also be sand top dressing some fairways to improve drainage.  Don't worry, it will look it's usual beautiful self come April.