Two-time major winner Minjee Lee and her brother Min Woo target unique sweep of dual gender at Aus Open

Twice major winner MinjeeLeeand her in-form brother Min Woo are targeting a uniquesweepof thedualgenderAustralianOpenin Sydney this week while Cameron Smith willlookto bounce back from his horror show in Brisbane. Days after Minjee won a record third Greg Norman medal as Australia's top golfer, Min Woo cruised to a three-stroke victory at theAustralianPGA Championship on Sunday to the delight of packed galleries at Royal Queensland.

His first big, home victory came just over a month after theLees became the firstsiblingsto win events in successive weeks on major international tours, with Minjee claiming the BMW Ladies Championship and Min Woo the MacauOpen. The mixed format of theAustralianOpen- which has separate men's and women's trophies - will have thesiblingscompeting apart but in close proximity across two courses, TheAustralianand The Lakes.

Min Woo, the more extroverted of the WesternAustralianduo, said he hoped both could hoist trophies in the same week. "It would be pretty crazy. We've won back-to-back weeks, but on the same week would be something else," the 25-year-old told reporters.

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Though boasting three European Tour titles among his four professional wins, Min Woo has some catching up to do to match his sister. The 27-year-old world number five has 10 LPGA Tour titles and top-three finishes at all five of the women's majors.

TheAustralianOpenhas proved elusive, though, despite playing every one since the age of 14. "As anAustralianyou always want to win your nationalOpenand it’s always been high on my list to win," she said. "I put the most pressure on myself here, I really want to do well so it's subconscious pressure."

TON OF BIRDIES

Former BritishOpenwinner Smith can only sympathise. The 30-year-old was in tears last week after missing the cut in hisAustralianPGA Championship title defence, the event he won three times in front of friends and family.

He said his meltdown at Royal Queensland had dented his confidence but he had worked hard with coach Grant Field for four days to iron out a technical issue with his swing. "I wouldn’t say my confidence is at 100%, but like I said, there’s no reason I can’t go out there and be competitive," he said.

"It only takes a few good shots and a few good feels and all of a sudden you’relooking at yourself at the top of the leaderboard." Former world number one Adam Scott is another with something to prove, having challengedLeein the first half of the PGA Championship before fading over the weekend to finish sixth.

Scott won theAustralianOpenin 2009 but has endured plenty of frustration since at the country's most prestigious event. He held a one-stroke lead when he teed off in the final round at Melbourne's Victoria Golf Club last year but duly crashed to hand Poland's Adrian Meronk a five-stroke win.

Without a win in nearly four years, the 43-year-old has committed to a higher-risk, attacking game to try to break the drought. "You have to accept some bad results because you're going for it, and if you're not on then you're going to have a bad score," he said. "But you'relooking for those five or six weeks a year where you go for it and you're on and you make a ton of birdies and you get the big results."