Weirfan
I would think that, since ANGC has a national membership, play in the summer months would be pretty slim anyway. These guys are all members of clubs back home, where play is active during the summer months. So the summer months would be the right time to close Augusta National down. Also, it's hot and humid as hell down there in the summer, so who'd go there to play golf? I've also read where the summer is when all of the course renovations
take place at Augusta...... all the more reason to close things down. Just some random thoughts that make sense to me.....