It’s straightforward to panic whenever you see the colours. Brown. Tan. Pea-green.

In truth, it feels too 2020.

A current aerial picture of Augusta Nationwide Golf Membership makes it straightforward to get nervous whenever you begin fascinated with the first-ever November Masters, and the way it’s only a handful of weeks away. The 84th version of the grand match, which was presupposed to be performed in its conventional April slot, was re-scheduled for Nov. 9-15.

However the shot, which made the rounds on social media, is just the well-known golf course’s conventional September look. It’s unnerving, for sure, however not out of the bizarre.

Overseeding is about to start quickly, if it hasn’t already. The grasses take lower than every week to floor after the unique seed is unfold.

As you may anticipate, summers are steamy in Augusta, with a damp subtropical local weather taking its toll on the famed golf course. Though the Bermuda grass can deal with the warmth, it begins to show brown within the fall when cooler temperatures set in. For instance, low temperatures are anticipated to get down into the 40s by week’s finish.

Round this time every year, Augusta Nationwide crews begin to put down a rye grass, which returns the course to inexperienced — even when it’s not as lavish as in spring. The course is usually closed from Could till October whereas this course of performs out.

It’s a unique expertise, however nonetheless a very good one, in keeping with those that have walked the fairways in fall.

“Enjoying in October could be very totally different to April within the truth the Bermuda grass was nonetheless preventing with the overseed,” Luke Donald informed Golfweek’s Steve DiMeglio of the 7,475-yard course.

In keeping with Donald, a SubAir system that controls the temperature and moisture of all of the greens and plenty of touchdown areas within the fairways will make this Masters course play as related as attainable to April’s course.

“And the greens are all the time pure there so that they’d be quick and true. However there would definitely be some Bermuda grass preventing with the overseed,” Donald continued. “The fairways can be a little bit bit softer since you’re often coming off a really heat summer season in Georgia, which works by September, so that you’re simply beginning to cool off in October. With that warmth you need to water the course lots.

“I simply assume the course would play a bit longer.”

Rory McIlroy, who has but to seize a inexperienced jacket, agrees that size will likely be at a premium.

“November goes to be totally different. It’s going to be chilly. The course can play very lengthy. I imply, it performs lengthy already, however it may play very lengthy. The greens may not be as quick as they often are in April, relying on the moisture,” McIlroy informed Michelle Wie in an Instagram Reside. “Clearly, they will do no matter they need with the course with SubAir and every thing, however I feel it’ll be a unique really feel as nicely.”