Augusta National taps into the fever for a ‘pretty wild’ moment with branded solar glasses – which rapidly become a must-have
hey say bats come out during a solar eclipse, and owls too. Hippos have been seen to move towards their nighttime feeding grounds, bees to fly back to their hives and refuse to emerge until the sun comes back out, crickets begin to chirrup, mosquitoes come out for the evening, spiders take down their webs to protect them from the nighttime dew.
There had been dire warnings. The Republican crank Marjorie Taylor-Greene, who represents Georgia’s 14th district, over the other side of the state, had warned on X: “God is sending America strong signs to repent. Earthquakes and eclipses and many more things to come.” Outside the golf course, a pick-up truck was circling the carpark with a sign strapped to the roof warning: “God sends national calamities to punish national sins.
The only disappointment was that the club hadn’t been able to arrange things so that the centreline of the eclipse passed directly overhead. Given the way they do things around here, you wondered whether the chairman, Fred Ridley, mightn’t just have fixed it for the sun to take a brief detour to the south. As it was, Augusta lay 400 miles away from the totality. At the zenith, at 3.08pm, just over three quarters of the sun was covered.
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