Apparently, Augusta National did not take too kindly to the driver of a Google Maps car trying to capture the club for its Street View feature -- and the interaction is now memorialized in Google Maps.
Writer Ryan David took a spin on Google Maps, looking to see Augusta National on Street View. What he found was pretty funny: In a pair of pictures, it's clear a security guard was dispatched to shoo away the Google Maps car before it could take too many pictures of the grounds through the main gate -- the one that goes down Magnolia Lane.
RT @RDGolfMedia: If you street view with Google Maps into Augusta National, there's a security guard waving you off. pic.twitter.com/Mo6WNDnRJd
— Chris Chaney (@Wrong_Fairway) March 12, 2015
@Wrong_Fairway The car got in a bit...small victories for us sharecroppers! pic.twitter.com/2WOTJkwl1M
— Ryan David (@RDGolfMedia) March 12, 2015
Augusta National loves its privacy. It's a private club; it should. But I wonder how far Google Maps would have gone if they hadn't been caught.
