All that are missing ahead of Thursday's first round of the Masters are the hundreds of trees that failed to survive the storm. That may be an unintended positive.

Unlikely heroes were celebrated by Augusta National for saving thousands from Hurricane Helen's devastation, just days before the Masters.

There are quite a few more places for them to perch after Hurricane Helen tore through Georgia last summer. By the time the deadly Category 4 storm churned north and finally dissipated, it left in its wake an estimated 1 million downed trees,