Stuart Neumann had assembled something tidy through the middle of his round at Boavista. He held par or better across the 4th, 5th and 6th, the pars including one on the tricky par-3 6th, among the harder holes on the course. At the 7th the composure left him. A double bogey ended the streak and pushed him back over par for the round. It was not a blip but an opening statement. A bogey followed at the par-5 8th, one of the easiest holes at Boavista. By the end of that hole Neumann had sunk to the bottom of the Wooden Spoon standings, overtaking Henry Meller, with one shot separating the two men.

It was a quiet kind of collapse. No blow-up hole, no single catastrophe to point at. Just three holes going the wrong way immediately after three that had gone right. Neumann's total for the round still matched his personal best at the course, set the previous year. On this occasion it left him bottom of the TEG 3 Wooden Spoon race.

Gregg Williams's second round at Boavista Golf & Spa Resort alternated between recovery and ruin, without ever settling on one. He opened strongly through holes 3 to 5, gaining four shots against par net, including a par salvaged on the par-5 3rd. Then the middle of the round dissolved. Across holes 8 to 11 he dropped 12 shots and did not register a single net par. The centrepiece was a quadruple bogey 8 at the 10th, one of the hardest holes on the course. A third collapse arrived late. Holes 15 to 17 cost him eight more shots, headlined by a triple bogey at the 15th, the hardest hole at Boavista. And yet the wreckage counted as progress. Williams's gross score was a personal best for Boavista, three shots inside his previous best of 105 and four better than his last visit, on his fifth trip to the course. Four previous attempts had been worse. That is the fact, and it should be sat with.