Amateurs Takumi Kanaya and Chun An Yu share the lead after round one of the Australian Open, where tournament favourite Adam Scott got off to a nightmare start.
Kanaya won on the Japan Tour in sensational fashion last time out, having earlier this year impressed in The Masters, and the world's top-ranked amateur continues to prove capable of competition with the professionals already.
Indeed on this form, he perhaps might have been a viable addition to next week's Presidents Cup side, four birdies in a row helping him to a brilliant 65 at The Australian.
While Kanaya arrived very much on the radar, Yu remained off it - but not for long. He too shot 65, a round capped with a birdie at the 18th, and this talented twosome have a two-shot buffer over the rest.
The gap to Scott is 10, the 39-year-old having to wait for the final hole for his sole birdie, after which he insisted that he's not yet out of the tournament.
"This course doesn’t give you a lot of room on your start-lines and I paid the price," he confessed. "I can turn things round though. I have an idea where the ball is going now.
"My target is to shoot under-par for every nine holes over the next three days. And if I throw in one really low nine I might be somewhere near the mark."
While Scott toiled, England's Paul Casey shot a three-under 68 which, rare in a round of three-under, included 16 pars.
Casey's eagle at the par-five 14th, where his approach came to rest inches from the hole, was the highlighted of a controlled round as he adjusted to slow greens, a consistent breeze, and a course around which disaster is always lurking.
Louis Oosthuizen also shot three-under, along with Cameron Smith, while Marc Leishman is a further shot back after a round of 69.
