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Posted April 5, 2012, 6:44 pm
BY
Tracey McManus
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Staff Writer

Quick fix for damaged bathrooms

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    Patrons enter the bathroom facilities near the 16th hole after repairs were made overnight during Thursday's first round of the 2012 Masters Tournament at Augusta National Golf Club on April 5, 2012, in Augusta, Ga. (Emily Rose Bennett/Staff)
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    Patrons and workers said they weren't surprised by the speed with which the Augusta National repaired the storm-damaged restrooms.

 

Renee Howell walked down the wooded steps toward the No. 16 tee Thursday and had to do a double-take.

When she passed the restroom facility the day before, she had seen a large tree that had fallen on the roof during the previous night’s thunderstorm, making it look like the building had split in half.

By Thursday, the building was completely repaired with no sign of the damage or debris.

“I could not wait to get here today to see if they were able to fix it,” Howell said. “I woke up in the lightning storm last night and thought, ‘There are people at the National doing repairs as I lay here.’ ”

Workers toiled overnight and into Thursday morning to repair the storm-damaged facility, an Augusta National Golf Club spokesman confirmed. When patrons arrived, they couldn’t tell it had been damaged.

Friends Dre Beasley and Scott Smith, of Augusta, had only heard about the damage but were curious to see if things would be cleaned up by tournament play. Beasley said everything on the course stays pristine, so he was not surprised when not so much as a shingle was off.

“A tree falling on a build­­ing is a big deal, but I already knew it was going to be taken care of quick because Billy Payne don’t play,” Beasley said. Payne is the Augusta National and Masters Tournament chair­man.

Augusta National gallery guard Art Finley said the quick cleanup was no sur­prise. In his five years at Augusta National, he has learned aesthetics is a priority.

“They just get things done, and when you have that ability, there’s nothing you can’t do,” Finley said.

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