George Coetzee and ryan Fox both fired six-under 65s to share the first-round lead in the Amundi Open de France near Paris.
With tournament golf coming to Le Golf National for the first time since Europes unforgettable Ryder Cup success 54 weeks ago, Fox and Coetzee finished day one with a one-shot lead above a group such as Richie Ramsay, but defending champion Alex Noren faces a battle to earn the cut following an erratic 72.
Coetzee made the most of the good scoring conditions in the early session, while he also defied the joys of seeing playing-partner and 2012 winner Marcel Siem disqualify himself following the front nine when he had been informed hed incur a 10-shot penalty for lifting and putting his ball five times, wrongly believing preferred lies were in operation.
The South African birdied the first two holes made three from the sixth in a row, and he also even picked up further shots at the 10th and 15th before his only bogey of the day at 17 ultimately cost him the outright lead.
Jordan Smith looked to exceed Coetzee by some space after before mistakes hampered him fading down the stretch, he birdied the first six holes also made yet another at 10, and Fox proved the only player from the starters to arrive at six under.
Fox, son of All Blacks legend Grant, capped an external 31 with four birdies in five holes and, after devoting a birdie at 12 with his lone blemish in the second, he got back into a share of the lead with a different good putt on the 16th green.
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The Kiwi gave a terrific likelihood of an eighth birdie of the round after he knocked his second at the last to himself, but he let a lot of break about the putt and had to settle for a tie at the top together with Coetzee.
Ramsay carded six birdies against a single dropped shot at his solid 66 as next month, he looks to cement his position at the 70-man area for its Airlines set, the Scot arriving in Paris ranked 60th in the Race to Dubai.
Ramsay shares third with Benjamin Hebert along with Kurt Kitayama, together with 2012 Ryder Cup star Nicolas Colsaerts back after the Belgian closed a 67 with his fifth birdie of the day at the ninth.
Smith was on 59 awake shortly after famous putting coach Phil Kenyon tweeted that he couldfloat the station naked to congratulate anybody breaking 60 at Le Golf National.
The Englishman was under after 10 and had five birdies over the previous eight holes to provide Kenyon a enormous predicament, but his struggle unravelled in the 13th as he ran up a triple-bogey seven.
While Noren at least enjoyed a finish to a difficult day on his return to the spectacle of Europe win over Team USA this past year, smith erred in the 17th and then parred the last to rounded off a disappointing 68.
Noren pinpointed the final putt of that competition from 50 feet to spark scenes of wild jubilation, but the Swede was far less euphoric when he slipped to three around with five to play until lifting his spirit when he pitched for a morale-boosting eagle at the long ninth.

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