He sliced his tee shot out of bounds at No. 5 toward the Trinity River for a bogey and dropped another shot at the 437-yard seventh hole before starting his go-ahead birdie run with a 6-iron inside 4 feet at the 200-yard eighth hole.
But the hosts hit back immediately as Nick Robinson's inside pass tricked the Bath line to send brother Jamie through ahole, the centre treating supporting back-row Molitika with a perfect offload that saw the Tongan lope under the posts.