Masters 'assessing' impact of Hurricane Helene to course as Augusta, Ga., community suffers 'catastrophic' damage
At 5:37 a.m. on Sept. 27, National Weather Service equipment at Augusta Regional Airport, which sees a massive influx of private jets for the Masters each spring, recorded a hurricane-force wind gust of 82 mph. A short while later, observations from the location ceased, suggesting the monitoring equipment had been rendered inoperable by the storm.