Kinsale’s John Murphy and Royal Dublin’s Hugh Foley opened with six-under 66s to lie only a shot off the tempo within the Alps Tour’s New Giza Open in Cairo.
Murphy was out within the second group of the day and birdied the second, third, fifth, sixth and seventh to show in five-under 31.
He picked up one other shot on the tenth to get to six-under and adopted a bogey on the par-five twelfth with a birdie 4 on the seventeenth to take the clubhouse lead.
“As we speak there have been good circumstances, not a lot wind,” Murphy mentioned. “So this morning there have been fairly just a few alternatives, and I managed to make the most of them nicely.
“I by no means put an excessive amount of stress on myself and stayed fairly stress-free for more often than not. In the previous couple of weeks, I’ve struggled within the first spherical to get going and principally knocked myself out of the match.
“So this time, I attempted to focus extra on enjoyable from the beginning, and I did a superb job with that. General, I’m proud of the rating, however clearly there’s nonetheless lots of golf to play.”
Foley began on the again 9 at New Giza Golf Membership and birdied the twelfth and 18th to show in 34 earlier than racing residence in 32.
The Dubliner birdied the primary, third, sixth and seventh earlier than following a bogey on the eighth with a closing birdie 4.
They ended the day tied for second, a shot behind Argentina’s Gaston Bertinotti – a former Campbell College star – who made an eagle, seven birdies and two bogey sixes in his 65.
Galway’s Ronan Mullarney, who lies fifth within the rankings race for 5 HotelPlanner Tour playing cards after the primary two occasion, made 4 birdies and two bogeys in a 70 to share twenty ninth place.
Citadel’s Robert Moran was joint forty third after he made 5 birdies, two bogeys and a double bogey in 71.
Carton Home’s Marc Boucher turned in four-over 40 on the again 9 however birdied the fifth and ninth to shoot a 74 that left him tied for 92nd within the 118-man discipline.
