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On a blustery day on Scotland's NE coast, hard by the Moray Firth on this relatively new Castle Stuart golf links only 20 players managed to break par and as I mentioned early this morning the morning wave had the best of conditions and it was Scott Hend of Australia and Felipe Aguilar of Chile who emerged at the top of the leaderboard after they shot -3 69 to share the lead after the first round of this Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open.
It's been quite a last few days for the Aussie who found out in Paris that he is in the Open Championship next week at Royal Troon and then was told that Jason Day had withdrawn from the Olympics, meaning he was in the team for Australia in Rio.
Two Irishmen who grew up on links golf, Graeme McDowell and Padraig Harrington were among those at 70, while Branden Grace of South Africa and Andy Sullivan were in the group at 71.
Phil Mickelson who won here in 2013 then went on to win the Open at Muirfield had a bad day in the afternoon wind as he took three bogeys on the par 5s and couldn't make a putt on his way to +4 76.
Two other Americans struggled as well. J.B. Holmes arrived with no clubs, finally tracked them down, he might as well have rented a set as he made three double bogeys on his way to an 80 while Patrick Reed tumbled down a hill as his score tumbled to +3 75.
The 18th played at 600 yards dead into a 35mph wind, a real 3 shotter which contributed to a scoring average close to 75.
Bryan Angus
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