The home fans were given something to cheer about on day one of the Saltire Energy Paul Lawrie Match Play as Maximilian Kieffer and Alexander Knappe both made excellent starts to their first round matches.
The event's first two editions had been held in Scotland but it moved to the Beckenbauer Course at Golf Resort Bad Griesbach and the German contingent were going well on home soil.
Florian Fritsch had already progressed to the last 32 in the morning and Kieffer and Knappe were both three up against Magnus A Carlsson and Lasse Jensen respectively as they approached the turn.
Marcel Siem was all square against Julien Quesne after seven holes meaning a clean sweep for the host nation was very much a possibility in Bavaria.
Kieffer went birdie-birdie-birdie from the second to get three up and while he bogeyed the next, a birdie on the eighth restored his cushion against the Swede.
Knappe won the third and fifth with birdies before a par was enough to hand him the seventh.
Finn Mikko Ilonen looked to be storming into the second round as he made birdies on the first, second, third, fifth and sixth to go five up against fourth-seeded Frenchman Matthieu Pavon.
Lop-sided starts were the order of the day in the afternoon, with Belgian Thomas Detry three up and on the verge of victory against Spaniard Eduardo De La Riva with Alejandro Cañizares three up against Richard Bland after 11 holes.
Paul Dunne was three up against Nathan Holman after five holes while Jens Fahrbring led fellow Swede Johan Edfors by the same score after four.
Top seed Matthew Southgate was two up after three holes against Romain Wattel, with Victor Dubuisson leading Bradley Dredge by the same margin after seven, and Nacho Elvira beating Justin Walters similarly after 12.
Tom Lewis was one up after two holes against Richie Ramsay, with the matches between Peter Hanson and Paul Lawrie, Grégory Bourdy and Marcus Fraser, Johan Carlsson and Daniel Brooks, and Zander Lombard and Sébastien Gros all all square.
