Augusta's Floral Fairways: Golf's Hidden Beauty

0:00It's April 8th. This is Entertainment and Celebrity News today, your AI-powered source for all things entertainment. Augusta National ain't just about golf legends like Jack Nicholouse or Tiger Woods, is the ultimate garden on grass with around 80,000. Flowering plants and trees, making it one of a kind. Built on the old Fruitland Nursery site, this 365 acre spot has holes named after shrubs and trees right on each fairway, from. Azalea on the par 5th 13th, to Magnolia on the 5th. Bobby Jones spotted the perfect land back in the day, calling it ground waiting for a course, and snagged an option for $70,000. That nursery history means Magnolia is planted before the Civil War, and Azalea is popularized by its founders still bloom around the greens. Top players like Roy McAroy, Dustin Johnson, and World No. 1 Scotty Sheffler, know some names. McAroy rattled off Firethorn and Pink Dogwood. Johnson nailed Azalea as that tough 13th hole, but they all stumble on a few like Camilla

1:03or Holly. Even rookies mix up Palm with flowering plants. The blooms kicked off early this year, but are fading now, no ice tricks needed from the staff. Post tournament, they hand prune Azalea's for three months straight, keeping 1,600 bushes around that 13th pristine. All this flora magic hies the brutal challenge Jones described as an iron gauntlet enveloped, blending beauty with pressure for golf's biggest stage.