Felipe Aguilar and Scott Hend set the clubhouse target on a wild and windy day one of the Aberdeen Asset Management Scottish Open as the Inverness coast lived up to its billing.
The duo were the only players to break 70 from the morning starters with high winds making scoring very difficult in the Highlands as the Scottish Open returned to Castle Stuart Golf Links for the first time since 2013.
The last time the event was played here 67 players broke 70 in round one, showing just how challenging the fierce breeze was making things.
Aguilar had been one of a few players to get to four under at one point during their round but he bogeyed the fearsome 607 yard last to drop back to three under and join Hend in a share of the lead.
The Chilean missed six cuts in a row after the turn of the year as he admitted he struggled to recover from taking part in an Iron Man triathlon but a second-placed finish at the Volvo China Open represented an upturn in form.
Hend, meanwhile, claimed a win at the True Thailand Classic Presented by Chang in March and has three other top tens this season.
The Australian started on the tenth and turned in 35 with three birdies and two bogeys but he holed his pitch to the par five second for an eagle and then parred his way home.
Aguilar birdied the second, fourth and eighth before dropping a shot on the ninth and picked up further shots on the 12th and 16th. He left himself a long way from the hole on the final hole, though, and needed three putts to sign for a closing bogey.
YE Yang and Tyrrell Hatton had both been at four under at one point but the South Korean finished bogey-bogey while Hatton dropped shots on the 14th and 17th to drop into a large group at two under.
Hatton's fellow Englishmen Richard Bland, Eddie Pepperell and Andy Sullivan were also at that mark alongside Northern Irishman Graeme McDowell and Swede Alex Noren.
Rafa Cabrera Bello, Luke Donald, Bradley Dredge, Mikko Ilonen, Craig Lee, Alexander Levy and Richard Sterne were then at one under with just 16 of the first wave under par.
New Zealand's Danny Lee had made the best start of the second wave, birdieing the first, third and fourth to join the leaders after seven holes.
