At Bom Sucesso the TEG 7 Green Jacket lead shifted three times through the closing stretch. Jon Baker had carried an overnight advantage into round two. By the 12th, Henry Meller had drawn level, parring the sixth-hardest hole on the card to join him at the top. Three holes later at the 15th, David Mullin parred his way level too, taking a share of the lead on a hole ranked the second-hardest on the course. The picture moved again at the 14th, where Baker himself drew back level. Three men, tied, with the round still unresolved.

By the finish Meller had pulled clear. He held the Jacket outright and extended to three shots, and Baker's overnight lead was gone entirely. Meller also kept his Trophy lead through the round, the gap there stretching to eleven. Baker's level-par 14th proved to be his last say in the Jacket battle.

Round 2 at Bom Sucesso offered Alex Baker and Gregg Williams nothing at all. Both filled their cards with large numbers. Williams was the chief offender. He took a quintuple bogey 9 at the 15th, one of the hardest holes on the course, and later a quadruple bogey 9 at the 2nd. Two nines, arrived at by different routes.

Baker matched him. He opened with a quadruple bogey 8 at the 1st, which is a decisive way to begin anything, and then shed eight shots across a three-hole stretch from the 14th to the 16th. Triple bogeys either side of a double bogey. The symmetry was the only tidy thing about it.

Neither round improved their standing. Baker remained the laggard of the TEG 7 Wooden Spoon, though the gap to safety had closed slightly to three shots after Bom Sucesso. He did not close it by playing well. With Meller disappearing over the horizon in the TEG 7 Trophy, events at the bottom had no bearing on the wider race. For Baker and Williams, that was probably a mercy.

Round two at Bom Sucesso produced the two best gross rounds in TEG history to that point. Neither belonged to the man winning the tournament. David Mullin shot a gross 9-over, the best Gross round ever recorded, assembled from five shots gained to par across holes 6-9 and another four across the front holes 1-4. At -10 it was also his personal best.

Stuart Neumann went one better in gross terms with a +10, the second-best Gross round in TEG history, while his net -13 ranked second-best of any round in TEG history outright. He took six shots off par through holes 8-12, including a birdie at the short 10th. Then the 13th arrived and a double bogey ended his run of pars. He answered by gaining four more over 15 to 17, which suggests the 13th had not made much of an impression. It was a considerable improvement on a round one of -3.

For all of it, Meller's lead over the field grew. Eleven, in the TEG Trophy race.