The Saturday round left Alex Baker holding the 2026 TEG Trophy lead and then losing it, twice. He took it outright with a par at the 5th. He lost it on the back nine to the nine at the 10th, a double bogey at the 11th and a triple at the 12th, ten shots in three holes, and Jon Baker was in front again. Alex Baker drew level with a bogey at the 14th, went back ahead with a par at the 17th, and lost it for the last time at the 18th. Jon Baker 39 points, Alex Baker 38, Gregg Williams 38.

Williams had the TEG Green Jacket in hand from the 3rd hole onwards and finished on 87, untroubled while everyone around him was having a difficult afternoon. At the bottom, David Mullin bogeyed the last and dropped level with John Patterson on 31, the two of them sharing the TEG Wooden Spoon position overnight.

John Patterson's opening round went to both extremes and spent very little time in between. The first wreck began at the 5th: a triple bogey at the short hole, a double at the 6th, then a 9 at the 7th, one of the hardest holes out there. Ten shots to par in three holes, and not much fun for anyone watching.

Then he turned it completely round. From the 8th to the 11th he made a par and three bogeys for twelve Stableford points, the bogey at the 10th alone worth three of them. Four holes of calm, sensible golf from a man who had just lost ten shots in three, which takes a certain amount of nerve.

The second collapse was worse. A quintuple bogey 9 at the 14th, a par 4 that doglegs round a lake, followed by a triple at the 15th and another at the 16th, the par 5 that threads between the two biggest lakes. Eleven shots in three holes and one solitary point to show for them. The 14th also took him past David Mullin to the bottom of the 2026 TEG Wooden Spoon race. He signed for 105, 33 over, last in the 2026 TEG Green Jacket, with 31 points.

The 10th explains a good deal about this place. It runs 462 yards, carries stroke index 1, has out of bounds down the left the whole way and a lake in front of the green from 110 yards out. A par there deserves a round of drinks. In one pass, three of the five players failed to get within three shots of one.

Alex Baker took nine, five over, no Stableford points whatsoever. David Mullin took eight, also for nothing, and that was enough to shift him from second-worst to the bottom of the Wooden Spoon standings. Jon Baker got away with seven, which on this hole counted as a tidy piece of work. Twelve shots to par between the three of them on a single hole, and nobody who had seen the tee shot was remotely surprised.