Augusta, Georgia, The Masters

PAD Challenge day 7: For today’s prompt, write a senses poem. 

That is, write a poem that uses one or more of your senses. 

Smell, taste, touch, sound, sight, or even a sixth sense. 

Focus in on one of them or try to incorporate them all.

For me the Masters
is a treat to all the senses but esp. sight and sound!
 

Some come to watch the challenge

Some love the wholesome scenes

Of ancient tree-lined bowers

And gentle rolling greens

Of full-blooming azaleas

Pink dogwood, flowering peach

Of jasmine and magnolia

Majestic fir and beech

Here hope and disappointment

Mete out their rivalry

Where stood  The Eisenhower Pine

And still, the Big Oak Tree

Hearts soar with each white orb lobbed high

Rush of adrenaline

Mingles with azure of pure sky

Splash…and temper’s discipline

As dreams are lived and broken

Midst reverent applause

Where man is at the mercy

Of golf’s merciless laws

Par, birdie, bogey, breath-prayer

‘Dear God, Thy will be done

But I could use a miracle

How ‘bout a hole-in-one?'

April’s bite of earth-heaven

Augusta’s glory-days

While dusk draws steeple shadows

While soft, the music plays

© Janet Martin

 

Jim and I may have different reasons for watching but...we both love it. lol;-)

 Augusta; excerpt below from this article

What makes Augusta unique is all the different types of trees and flowering shrubs that are in bloom when the Masters takes place. The 366-acre property was in the 1800s home to Fruitland Nurseries. It was then that so many different trees and plants were imported and planted there, brought from around the globe. Even when the nursery closed in 1918, the trees and plants remained and thrived until Bobby Jones discovered the property in the early 1930s.
So, when the course was designed and landscaped, it was done so around this arbor spectacular more than perhaps any course in the world. Named trees dot the course. There’s a 150-year-old specimen simply known as “The Big Oak” that stands majestically near the clubhouse. Then, there’s the Eisenhower Pine on No. 17, so named because the 34th President Dwight Eisenhower who often played the course managed to hit it so often with his tee shots.
In fact, all of the holes are named after exotic and aromatic trees such as Tea Olive (No. 1), Pink Dogwood (No. 2), Flowering Crab Apple (No. 4), Magnolia (No. 5), Yellow Jasmine (No. 8), Carolina Cherry (No. 9), Azalea (No. 13), Nandina (No. 17) and so on.
Said Nese: “The thing that strikes me is that Augusta takes so much pride in its trees and flowers and shrubs that it names its holes after them. When I think of Augusta National, that’s what I think of first — all those different growing things and their beauty.

The highs, like no other golf tournament... (Masters 2015)

as well as the lows!!(Masters 2016)

  Jordan Spieth, gracious in defeat! Remember?

Wishing all the best to each player!
Thank-you.