How Augusta National gets put to bed each night of the Masters
Augusta National hosts the best golfers in the world by day, but the home of the Masters starts to look a lot different every evening.
A few caddies and maintenance staffers intersect on their evening journeys Monday at the Masters. Getty Images AUGUSTA, Ga. — Twenty-eight-year-old Norwegian lad Kristoffer Reitan was doing exactly what you would do, were you a rookie at Augusta National, early on in Masters week .
It was 6:10 p. m. and the Masters Witching Hour was well in motion.
Spectators were finally leaving the ground — fat, happy and even a bit drunk — and were replaced, as they are every day, by an army of volunteers, staffers, security and grounds crew scurrying about on duty. They wove around each other like worker ants. Reitan was living his best life, blissfully unaware and at the center if it all, playing chip shots from the back side of 15 green.
A group of six maintenance staffers waited in carts near the next tee, eager to redress the turf that took a beating all day. Eventually they were told Sorry, move on by a gallery marshal. So long as player(s) are on the course, their work must wait.
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