At Boavista in TEG 5's second round, Gregg Williams posted the best round of his career, finishing six-under-par net. It was enough to leapfrog Jon Baker. Baker had gone round level par, which is a perfectly respectable thing to do and, on this particular day, entirely beside the point.

Neumann matched the move stroke for stroke. A poor first-round 6-over became a nine-under second round, a swing of 15 shots. It also carried him clear of the Wooden Spoon cellar he had occupied overnight. He vacated the premises without leaving a note.

The tenancy passed to Henry Meller. A double bogey on the par-5 3rd sent him from fourth to last in the TEG 5 Wooden Spoon standings, flipping the race entirely. David Mullin, meanwhile, retained his TEG 5 Trophy lead. The gap to the chasing pack widened from one shot to three. He did it with a card that was eleven over par. Round here, that is what command looks like.

Henry Meller's round 2 at Boavista Golf & Spa Resort was undone in one stretch of three holes. Across the 14th, 15th and 16th he bled 12 shots. Not one net par among them.

It opened with a quadruple-bogey 7 on the par-3 14th. A par 3 is a hole designed to be over quickly. He continued with a triple bogey on the par-4 15th, stroke index 1, the hardest hole on the course and therefore the least surprising item on the charge sheet. Then came the quintuple-bogey 10 on the par-5 16th, his worst hole of the day. At the 18th he added a further quadruple bogey. Nobody had asked him to.

The curious detail is that his back nine still came in 12 shots better than his front. The outward holes, one concludes, had been grim in their own right. His gross 30 over par was the worst score anyone in the field posted that day. It lifted Stuart Neumann clean out of the Wooden Spoon cellar and installed Meller there instead, last by 15 shots. The collapse was sudden. It was also complete.