Lloyd and Fox set pace

Chris Lloyd and Graham Fox (Clydeway Golf) had the lowest scores of the day - 64 apiece - in the first round of the £46,600 Highland Links pro-am over three courses: Royal Dornoch, Nairn and Castle Stuart.

With Royal Dornoch a par 70, Nairn a par 71, and Castle Stuart a 72, it will be Thursday before the pieces of the Tartan Tour's golfing jigsaw come together and tell us the winners when they have all played the three classic links courses.

Chris Lloyd had his 64 at Castle Stuart which puts him a eight under par.

Graham Fox had his 64 at Nairn - a seven-under-par score.

Blairgowrie's Bradley Neil was well up the leaderboard with a 66 at Castle Stuart, a six-under-par score.

Bradley goes into the event buoyed by winning a European Tour Qualifying School Stage One event in Austria last week.