DP World Tour :FedEx Open de France Weather Tee Times
Out early this morning England's Marcus Armitage put on a playing clinic, 9 birdies, 2 bogey's -7 64 on the Golf-de-Saint-Nom-La-Bretèche parkland style course just 15 miles outside of Paris to lead the pack by 2 shots after a lovely sunny mild day.
Aussie Min Woo Lee and home favourite Julian Guerrier are closest with -5 66.
Canadian Aaron Cockerill is in a large group T29 -2 69 while Corey Conners putting let him down, T71 E.
Armitage birdied the second and though he gave the shot straight back, he hit his approach to two feet at the sixth to kick-start an extraordinary run of scoring.
He birdied the eighth and ninth for a front nine of 33 and extended that run to six birdies in a row, with pinpoint approaches to the tenth and 13th and putts from 18 and 13 feet at the 11th and 12th respectively.
"I was hitting it pretty close and just the putts started to drop," he said. "I think I one-putted every green for that space of holes. Yes, that will work. Once you see a few go in, you get on a run and then you just feel like you're just moving the putter and picking it out of the hole," Armitage added.
"Yeah, you definitely feel it with the putter. You know, sometimes you get it with your irons and drivers become automatic, but mainly the putter, you get a lot of momentum with it."
A chip-in from a greenside bunker at the ninth was the highlight of Guerrier's 66, providing one of his six birdies to go with a single bogey at the 12th as he saved par from another bunker at the last.
Lee, starting on the more difficult back nine, took advantage on his closing stretch with four straight birdies to also sit at five under.
He said: "A few putts didn't drop early (but I) finished off with four birdies in a row which is very, very nice - it was deserving, I guess, with the shots that I was hitting."
Guerrier's compatriot Ugo Coussaud was in a large group at -4 67 with Maximilian Kieffer, Marcus Kinhult, Jens Dantorp, Keita Nakajima, Jorge Campillo and Sam Bairstow.
Englishman Dan Bradbury began his title defence with a -1 70. Spain's Pablo Ereno, playing in just his fourth DP World Tour event, made a hole in one at the 153-yard seventh hole.
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