Gregg Williams finished the tournament at the Stadium Course with 44 Stableford points and an 84 gross. It was the best round of the day on both counts. Six points clear of the field of five, six shots better than anyone else's gross. The 84 equalled the PGA Catalunya Stadium course record, set by David Mullin in round three the previous day. The 84 was also his best score in seven visits to the Stadium, one better than the 85 he had carried as his course mark. Seven attempts to move a number by one. He got there in the end.

The scoring came in clusters. He birdied the 5th and parred the 6th. Then he took nine points from holes 8 to 10: a par at the short 8th, a bogey at the 9th, the hardest hole on the course, which still returned three points, and a par at the 10th.

It settled the TEG 18 Green Jacket, which he had led going into the round and now leads by 14. It also dragged him back into the TEG 18 Trophy picture. Having trailed by as many as 15 points at one stage, he finished nine behind Alex Baker. Alex Baker keeps the Trophy lead, and the last word belonged to the golf course.

Jon Baker arrived at the Stadium Course already holding the TEG 18 Wooden Spoon. The final round did nothing to loosen his grip. His lead over the next man went from 14 shots to 23.

The damage came in one unbroken stretch. From the 7th through the 11th he made five double bogeys in a row: a seven at the par-5 7th, fives at the 8th and 11th, sixes at the 9th and 10th. Ten shots dropped across five holes. One Stableford point apiece, collected with the grim regularity of a man signing for parcels he never ordered. The 9th, at stroke index 1, is the hardest hole on the course. The 7th and 11th are among the easiest. He treated them all exactly the same.

It was part of something longer. From the 2nd to the 12th, every single hole was a bogey or worse. Eleven holes without relief. The bleeding stopped at the 13th, where he made a birdie three, his first hole under par in eleven. It arrived far too late to mean anything and he took it anyway.

The closing stretch at the Stadium Course did most of the damage on Tuesday afternoon. David Mullin played holes 14 to 17 in nine over par. A double bogey at the 14th, a triple bogey 8 at the 15th, then further doubles at the 16th and 17th. Four holes, not one net par among them, three Stableford points salvaged from the wreckage. The 15th, which cost him three shots, is the easiest hole on the course by stroke index. It is not clear he was told.

John Patterson's version started worse. He took 7 at the 14th and another 7 at the 15th, three over and two over respectively. A bogey at the 16th steadied things, in the sense that a bogey can be described as steadying. Then he birdied the 17th and ended a run of holes at bogey or worse. That single birdie was worth five Stableford points. Mullin took three from the entire four-hole sequence.