AUGUSTA, Ga. — Any optimism that the following Masters will likely be restored to its complete glory of spring blooms and the never-ending refrain of cheers used to be dampened most effective by way of the truth of the calendar and the new spikes in coronavirus circumstances. It has been 8 months since Augusta National mentioned it used to be suspending the Masters as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, and 7 months because the membership focused two weeks earlier than Thanksgiving as essentially the most sensible time to play this 12 months. “I’m hopeful that we will see improved conditions regarding this virus, but April is less than five months away, so there’s no assurance of that,” Masters Chairman Fred