Jon Baker opened TEG 7 at Praia D'El Rey with a gross round of +11, the best gross round in TEG history to date. It was not achieved without incident. At the short 2nd, stroke index 13 and one of the easier holes on the card, he made a quadruple bogey seven. Early, ugly, and apparently of no lasting interest to him. He recovered to card a net -10, the third-best round in TEG history, and finished with three straight pars from the 16th that cost him nothing gross or net.

Those three pars decided things. On the 10th he had drawn level for the Trophy lead, and by the 12th he had drawn level for the Green Jacket, only for Henry Meller to reclaim the outright Jacket lead moments later at the 2nd. By the close Baker held the Green Jacket lead by a single stroke. Meller topped the Trophy, three clear of him. Two men, two competitions, one afternoon, and no agreement between them.

Alex Baker's first round of TEG golf, on debut at Praia D'El Rey, was an education. He began in reasonable order, shipping three bogeys through holes 2 to 4. Then he reached the par-3 5th and took a quintuple bogey 8. On a card that eventually contained a great deal, it still stands out.

It got worse, and it got worse methodically. Holes 8 through 11 cost him 11 shots, a quadruple bogey at the 10th among them. A second quadruple arrived at the 14th, one of the harder holes on the course, and with it last place in the TEG 7 Wooden Spoon race. He did not leave it again that day. The stretch from 14 to 16 removed a further eight shots. Three separate eights on the scorecard, on a course he had never seen before. Few men have introduced themselves to TEG so thoroughly.

Praia D'El Rey made its TEG debut on Thursday 2 October 2014, and showed the six-man field both its links teeth and its parkland manners in a single afternoon. David Mullin took a quadruple bogey 8 at the 18th, one of the course's harder holes. Gregg Williams matched him with a quadruple at the 6th, then composed himself admirably. Two four-hole stretches, at 7-10 and 13-16, passed with nothing worse than a bogey, and carried him level with Mullin for the Trophy lead by the 10th. Stuart Neumann fared less well, triple-bogeying the 3rd and the 7th and sinking to the bottom of the Wooden Spoon race. Nobody in the field had ever played the place. That made the day's extremes into records by default: the best score finished 11 over par, the worst 37 over, and both went straight onto the books.