JON BAKER
Eagle at Eight, Ruin by Sixteen
An eagle that should have won him the Trophy instead marked the high point of a round that lost it.
David Mullin completed the double at Bletchingley, taking both the 2011 TEG Trophy and the 2011 TEG Green Jacket. It was only the second such double in TEG history, after TEG 2. He was assisted, generously, by Jon Baker.
Baker took the outright Trophy lead with a birdie at the 2nd. He extended it to seven shots with an eagle at the par-4 8th. At that point he was a man in full command of his own destiny. Between the 9th and the 15th he bled 27 gross shots. He ran up a sextuple-bogey nine at the par-3 12th, the easiest hole on the course, and then improved on it with an 11 at the par-5 15th, his worst hole of the tournament. Seven holes passed without a single net par. Baker had arrived off a three-under round three, the golf of a serious contender. He closed with a nine-over round four. The seven-shot lead was not eroded so much as demolished from the inside. Mullin ended the day eight clear at the top of the Trophy, having largely watched.