David Mullin took the Green Jacket at TEG 14 with a gross total of +68, seven clear of Jon Baker. His ninth.

The number was built on consistency across Kent's four links rounds. Mullin set a personal best on every course he played: 87 at Royal Cinque Ports and 85 at Littlestone, each seven strokes better than his previous visit in TEG 13, and 91 at Prince's Shore/Dunes, one better than before. None of those figures would trouble a club noticeboard in isolation. Stacked together, they were unanswerable.

Behind him the chase was real, and late. Jon Baker trailed by 15 at one point and closed to seven, the bulk of that work arriving in the final round at Prince's, where his 83 gross set a new course record. The previous mark of 85 had stood across five prior visits, and was Jon Baker's own. Gregg Williams made up more ground still, trailing by 18 at his worst and finishing eight back. His +76 is a personal-best Green Jacket gross total, and his 86 at Prince's in round three was a course best for him too.

The gap never closed far enough. Mullin's margin of seven at the finish flatters the field, given how much larger it had been for most of the four days.

Jon Baker finished last in the Stableford count and took the TEG 14 Wooden Spoon with 125 points across the four rounds. The defence of a title can take many forms. He chose this one, and won it by 12, which is a margin of some authority.

The early links did him no favours, and he returned the courtesy. At Royal Cinque Ports his best gross was 92, seven strokes worse than the 85 he had managed on his previous visit. At Littlestone he posted 92 against a prior best of 79. Thirteen shots is not a bad day; it is a change of identity. His third round at Prince's brought 28 points, held down in part by a run of pars from the 14th that ended with a triple bogey six at the par-three 17th.

The final round was another man entirely. Jon Baker returned 39 points, an improvement of 11 on the previous day, and his 83 gross set a new course record for Prince's Shore/Dunes, beating the previous mark of 85 that had stood across five prior visits. It was also his personal best on the layout, two strokes better than his last time there. The scoring came in a burst: five holes without dropping a gross shot from the 11th to the 15th, back-to-back birdies at the 12th and 13th, a two-hole birdie streak that equals the all-time TEG record, and 14 points across holes 12 to 15.

Then the 16th, which had already relieved Alex Baker of the Trophy that afternoon, took a double bogey from Jon and ended the run. He ran up an eight at the 18th. He therefore holds the course record and the Wooden Spoon at the same time, which takes some arranging.

Two of Alex Baker's four rounds in Kent ended with a 10 on the card, and on both occasions the number arrived at a hole numbered 16. Different courses, different pars, no connection whatsoever beyond the obvious one. The first came in the opening round at Royal Cinque Ports, a quintuple bogey at the par-five 16th, stroke index 7, no Stableford points. The second, at Prince's on the Sunday, was worse in relative terms: a 10 at a par four, a sextuple bogey, on stroke index 17, the second-easiest hole on the card. Taking ten shots there requires a degree of commitment.

The Prince's 10 was the more painful for what preceded it. Alex Baker had played the 13th, 14th and 15th in par, par, par, three holes without dropping a gross shot, worth eleven Stableford points. The 16th erased the lot at a stroke. He was not alone in losing his footing there. Jon Baker arrived at the same hole having gone par-birdie-birdie-par-par from the 11th, and made a double bogey for no points.

These were the headline numbers, not the only ones. Alex Baker also had an 8 at the 11th at Royal Cinque Ports, a 9 at the 5th and an 8 at the 8th at Littlestone, and an 8 at the 10th at Prince's in round three. Five further holes returning nothing. His round-one 98 at Royal Cinque Ports was still four strokes better than his previous visit, which tells you a good deal about the previous visit.

Williams finished TEG 14 with a Gross total of +76, a personal best, and no prize of any description. The number rested on two course records of his own: 93 at Royal Cinque Ports, one better than his previous mark there of 94, and 86 at Prince's in round three, three strokes better than his last visit and inside his previous best of 89.

It was not tidy. He opened at Deal with a 9 at the par-five 3rd, stroke index 4, a quadruple bogey worth nothing at all. Littlestone was worse in the wider sense: 97, eleven strokes adrift of the 86 he had managed there before, and only 27 Stableford points.

Round three was the correction. He gained twelve points on the day, reaching 39, and the middle of it was genuinely solid: pars at the 9th, 10th and 11th for nine points, three holes without dropping a gross shot, then two more clean holes at the 15th and 16th. Between those came an 8 at the par-five 12th, which brought the exhibition to a close.

Sunday offered more steadiness in patches, gross pars at the 5th and 6th and again at the 14th and 15th. Having trailed the TEG 14 Green Jacket lead by 18 at one stage, he closed to within 8. Ten shots recovered. Eight still owed.