MELBOURNE: Organisers of this week's Australian Open are hoping good golf in trying conditions at the formidable Moonah Links course will help erase the memory of last year's controversial 54-hole event.
Former winners Stuart Appleby and Aaron Baddeley say the players will struggle to break par in the hot summer winds, choking rough and 77 bunkers on the new 6,829-metre, par-72 course at Rye, a 90-minute drive south of Melbourne.
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