The Trophy lead changed hands four times across the front nine at Boavista. This was opening jockeying rather than drama. Williams drew level with his birdie at the par-3 2nd. Jon Baker took the outright lead at the 4th, and did so while making a bogey. Mullin pulled level with a bogey of his own at the par-4 5th. Baker shared the lead again with a par at the par-5 8th. Then Mullin's finish settled the matter and carried him to the outright TEG 2 Trophy lead.

At the other end, Henry Meller was already beyond assistance. A double bogey at the par-5 3rd dropped him to the bottom of the TEG 2 Wooden Spoon race, and he treated the position as permanent. From the 11th to the 15th he bled 20 shots, including a quintuple bogey at the 14th and a quadruple bogey at the 15th, Boavista's hardest hole. That last one is almost respectable. The rest were not. By the close of play he stood alone at the foot of the Spoon table, unbothered, unchallenged, and entirely responsible.

Gregg Williams began TEG 1's opening round at Boavista as a man of substance. He birdied the par-3 2nd to draw level for the outright lead in the Green Jacket (Gross) standings. He then parred the 3rd, dropping nothing across the pair. It was as good as his day would get.

From the 12th, the structure gave way. Double bogeys at the 12th, 13th and 15th. A sextuple bogey 9 at the par-3 14th, his worst hole against par all round. A quintuple bogey 9 at the 17th. A final double bogey at the last, delivered with the air of a man completing paperwork. Across seven holes, the 12th to the 18th, he shed 22 shots.

The mitigation is thin. Only the double at the 15th came on a genuinely hard hole, the par-4 1st stroke index. The rest arrived on the easier holes, which were offering no resistance whatsoever. He began the round sharing the lead. He finished it rooted to the bottom of the field.