Nick Dougherty and Peter Hanson both shot superb rounds of 66 to set the early clubhouse target at four under par at the SAS Masters.
Hanson, starting on the back nine, gave little indication of what was to come when he sandwiched birdies at the 15th and 16th with bogeys at the tenth and 18th, but then his fortunes changed.
He followed a birdie at the first with another couple at the fourth and fifth, before taking his sixth of the day at the last for inward-nine score of 30.
England’s Dougherty, 15th in the European Ryder Cup standings, joined Hanson on four under after a flawless round containing two birdies and an eagle.
The Englishman holed a 142 yard shot for an eagle two on the 12th - he started on the back nine - and then added a birdie three at the 14th.
Back on the Arlandastad course where he was a joint runner-up last year, Dougherty looked like dropping a stroke straightaway as he teed off in wind and rain.
But a putt from 30 feet saved him an opening par and his eagle came with a wedge - the hole was playing downwind - shortly afterwards.
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