Canberra's top golfers will monitor the coronavirus, but they'll both prepare as if the Japan Golf Tour is going ahead as usual.
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Brendan Jones and Matthew Millar are both in Queenstown for the New Zealand Open which starts Thursday, but their years won't ramp up until the Japan tour kicks off in mid April.
The LPGA Tour of Japan will play an event without any spectators in Okinawa next week, but there's still seven weeks before the men's tour tees off in the Token Homemate Cup in Nagoya on April 16.
At this stage Jones will return to defend his title, but if the coronavirus landscape changes then he'll make a decision in the lead-up to the tournament.
Jones said it was a similar situation to Japan's earthquake and tsunami in 2011 when the Tour went ahead as planned - just a month later.
Interestingly, Jones didn't win the Token that year, but he did win The Crowns two weeks later.
"The start of the Japan Tour isn't for another [seven] weeks. Obviously they'll be getting information up there in that time and they'll make a judgement on whether or not it's fine to play," he said.
"It was just like when they had their big earthquake a few years ago. They were monitoring should we be back playing.
"They had the advice we've got to get it back to normal and we just listened to them. The same will happen this time."
Jones planned to take the NZ Open more seriously than he "may have taken it in the past".
"I'm not going to set any goals for the week, going in with an open mind," Jones said.
"I know the golf course, I know my game feels good and just to go and enjoy it, and see what happens."
Millar goes into the NZ Open having finished tied 10th at the Queensland Open on the weekend - two shots behind Canberra amateur golfer Josh Armstrong (tied fifth).
Like Jones, he said at this stage he was preparing to head to Japan - where he'll likely start on the second-tier tour and hope to force his way onto the main tour where Jones has been plying his trade for 20 years.
"It's something you can't control, but I definitely hope they get it under control," Millar said.
"I'll just wait it out at the moment and go with the plans I've got. And if anything changes, like if there was a lot of confirmed cases of it I'd say I wouldn't go.
"But if there's just some - it depends where it is I guess. Just play it by ear ... [I'm] not worried about it as such, but just watching what happens a bit.
"I know a lot of the boys that play in China have had their plans tossed up and cancelled, some changed until the middle of the year.
"But for me I'm just watching what happens with it - at this stage I'm still going in April."