No Azaleas This Year: "It’s like an actress without her makeup. It’s like Wrigley Field without the ivy."

Doug Ferguson explains the mild winter and warm spring means you won't see many flowers this year during the Masters telecast.

The 13th hole has an estimated 1,600 azalea bushes – that’s why it’s called “Azalea” – yet there are only a dozen or so bushes behind the green that still have blooms. Fans on the course Monday for a practice round posed for pictures in front of one azalea bush with its pink flowers having fallen onto the pine needles.

Yes, the tournament will manage to go on. Augusta National is still beautiful as ever with sunlight filtering through the Georgia pines, and not a blade of grass out of place. But it’s not the same.

It’s like an actress without her makeup. It’s like Wrigley Field without the ivy. It’s like Ian Poulter dressed in white.

“You’re kidding. No flowers?” said Poulter, who arrived on Monday dressed head to toe in white. “I can’t believe that.”