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Coronavirus Snags Could See Australian Open Join Summer Sports Scrapheap 

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MELBOURNE, Oct 11 (Reuters) - Australia's expectations of rebooting its golf visit stay impeded by COVID-19 and its chief occasion might be a setback of the pandemic for a subsequent year running, Golf Australia supervisor James Sutherland told Reuters. 

The country's greatest competitions were dropped last year and the current year's have been pushed back to mid 2022 however coordinators remain hamstrung by severe travel controls and quarantine rules. 

Australia's lines are viably closed and improbable to open to non-inhabitants until 2022, while the compulsory 14-day disconnection in isolation inns is putting off the country's top players from getting back to help the homegrown visit. 

That amounts to a bad dream for competition coordinators whose supply of ability needed to sign supporters and sell tickets has been everything except interfered with. 

"The vulnerability kind of places us in a tough spot," Sutherland said in a meeting on Monday. 

"According to our viewpoint, we are simply attempting to get a tad of sureness with respect to what things resemble and may resemble. 

"There's typically a touch of precious stone balling there however shockingly these players will in general make game plans far ahead of time." 

The leader Australian Open, which flaunts previous world number ones Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy among its new victors, was made tentative plans for late-January or early February last month after its November planning demonstrated indefensible. 

Both the Australian Open and the 2022 ladies' occasion in Adelaide in February, which is additionally a stop on the world class LPGA Tour, are currently in question. 

"We've quite recently got to now weigh up what do the occasions resemble and is it conceivable to play at some lesser scale?" said Sutherland. 

"They're such things we're attempting to work through right now." 

The deficiency of the competitions would be another sledge blow for the nearby visit, while adding to a developing rundown of dropped sport occasions in Australia. 

Melbourne's Formula One Australian Grand Prix was delayed from its conventional March window to a November space prior to being rejected for a subsequent year, alongside motorcycling's MotoGP occasion at adjacent Phillip Island. 

Street cycling's Tour Down Under, a race on the top UCI World Tour, was dropped last month, and there are questions about whether the group based ATP Cup tennis competition can go on before the Australian Open Grand Slam at Melbourne Park in January. peruse more 

In any event, sorting out little golf occasions for locally situated players frantic for contest is demonstrating a colossal test for executives, with Australia's southeastern states adequately disengaged from the remainder of the nation while doing combating COVID-19 flare-ups. peruse more 

"(That is) one more layer of intricacy with state boundaries and how players can move themselves around," said Sutherland.