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'Your eyes burn' - Golfer in mask as smoke shrouds Australian Open

By AFP | Dec. 5, 2019

**New Zealand golfer Ryan Chisnall plays through thick haze from bushfires at the first hole on day one of the Australian Open in Sydney [Courtesy]**

Players complained of stinging eyes with one forced to wear a face mask as toxic smoke from bushfires choking Sydney blighted the opening round of golf's prestigious Australian Open on Thursday.

Two young Asian amateurs upstaged a field packed with big names preparing for next week's Presidents Cup against the Tiger Woods-led US as the event was shrouded in haze from fires burning out of control throughout the state of New South Wales.

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