The TEG 12 Trophy lead moved five times during round two at PGA Catalunya and settled nowhere. John Patterson drew level at the 4th. He took it outright at the 12th, was pegged back to a tie at the 13th, and lost it outright at the 15th. He levelled again at the 16th with a par, then closed bogey, par, each of the three holes worth 3 points, nine points across the final stretch.

The 15th deserves its own mention. Patterson made a quintuple-bogey 10 on the par 5. It cost him the outright lead and, one suspects, some quiet interior scaffolding. All that movement, and the final margin did not shift by a single point. Gregg Williams ended the round exactly as he had started it, one clear of Patterson.

The Green Jacket behaved much the same way. Williams drew level on gross at the 10th with a birdie, and level again at the 18th with a closing par. The gap stood at zero, as it had all along. By the close of play Williams led both the Trophy and the Jacket, and the table looked precisely as it had that morning. Eighteen holes, six men, considerable exertion, no consequence.

Alex Baker's second round at PGA Catalunya Tour began promisingly. He picked up 12 Stableford points across the 2nd to the 5th, built on pars at the 2nd and the 5th, with bogeys at the 3rd and the second-hardest hole on the course, the 4th. He was, briefly, playing golf.

Then the 6th. A double bogey there dropped him to the bottom of the TEG 12 Wooden Spoon race, and the bottom proved comfortable. He went four holes without a net par. A triple at the 7th, a triple at the short 8th, a triple at the 9th. Eleven gross shots handed over across those four holes, without any noticeable change in his demeanour.

A birdie at the 10th finally stopped the bleeding. He found another decent spell later too, taking 9 points from the 13th to the 15th, including a bogey at the 13th, the hardest hole on the course. None of it counted for anything where it mattered. He stayed the race's laggard, and the gap to the next-worst player in the field grew from one shot to four. Some men lead from the front. Baker leads from the back, and he is pulling away.

David Mullin carded the best gross round of the day on Friday at PGA Catalunya's Tour Course. An 84, and a personal best at the venue, beating his previous mark of 85 by one shot across four visits. Four visits, one shot. The margins of a patient man. The 84 also equalled the Tour Course record, first set by Jon Baker in TEG 11. Gregg Williams and Jon Baker had matched it in round one of this TEG.

The round turned on the 5th to the 8th. Four straight pars, not a gross shot dropped, 12 Stableford points collected, including a par at the 8th, one of the harder holes out there. The run ended at the 9th with a triple bogey and a blank Stableford return. The rest of the card held firm enough to deliver the low gross of the day, which after years of near-misses at this course counts as a debt settled.