Ginn Championship: Second-Round Notebook

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PALM COAST, Fla. -- Bernhard Langer shoots for his third career win on the Champions Tour Sunday in his 11th start on the circuit. If successful, he would equal his career victory total on the PGA TOUR. Should he win, it would also be Langer's second title of 2008 and he would join Scott Hoch as the only other multiple winner on the Champions Tour this year.

Fred Funk celebrated a chip-in for birdie on No. 15 Saturday. (Miller/WireImage)

Inside the Numbers

36-Hole Leaderboard

Player Score 1. Bernhard Langer 133 -11 2. Lonnie Nielsen 135 -9 3. Fred Funk 136 -8 4. Tim Simpson 137 -7 T5. Joe Ozaki 139 -5 T5. Nick Price 139 -5 T5. Ben Crenshaw 139 -5 T5. Mark McNulty 139 -5 T5. Craig Stadler 139 -5 T10. Tom Watson 140 -4 T10. Brad Bryant 140 -4 T10. Gene Jones 140 -4

• Langer has played in 90 TOUR events in Florida without a victory. His best career finishes in the Sunshine State were a tie for second at the 1987 Honda Classic and second at the 1995 PLAYERS Championship.

• This marks Bernhard Langer's third Saturday lead on the Champions Tour and he's 2 for 2 thus far. He went wire-to-wire in winning last year at the Administaff Small Business Classic and led by three strokes after two rounds of the Toshiba Classic before winning in a playoff.

• Through six events, Langer is the only 36-hole leader to win thus far on the 2008 Champions Tour. That victory came in a seven-hole playoff over Jay Haas at the Toshiba Classic in Newport Beach, Calif.

• John Cook made the first double eagle on the Champions Tour this year on Saturday when he holed a 3-wood second shot from 223 yards at the par-5 14th hole. Cook's albatross was the 31st double eagle in Champions Tour history and first since Leonard Thompson made a 2 at the par-5 18th hole at Nashawtuc Country Club in the opening round of the 2007 Bank of America Championship near Boston.

• A total of 275 Charles Schwab Cup points will be awarded to the winner Sunday. Should Bernhard Langer win, he would take over the early lead in the Schwab Cup race. Langer currently has 476 points and trails Scott Hoch by only 12 points in the season-long competition. At the end of the official season, the player earning the most Charles Schwab Cup points will receive a $1 million annuity.

• On Sunday, Bernhard Langer will play in the final group for the fourth time this year. Fred Funk last played in the final grouping at the MasterCard Championship at Hualalai and won the event. Nielsen has been in the final group three times before Sunday's final round. The last time Lonnie Nielsen was in the final grouping was at the Commerce Bank Championship on Long Island last year, where he went on to win.

• Joe Ozaki's 7-under 65 Saturday was the low round of the tournament and vaulted him 36 spots into a tie for fifth, the largest move by any player in the field Saturday.

• Loren Roberts extended his streak of par/better rounds to 20 straight with a 2-under-par 70 Saturday. That's the longest current run on the Champions Tour.

• Saturday's stroke average of 72.584 was more than a stroke lower than Friday's first-round scoring average (73.692). There were 12 rounds in the 60s Saturday compared to seven Friday. A total of 31 players broke par Saturday compared to 21 Friday. The cumulative stroke average for two rounds is 73.142. Last year after 36 holes, the stroke average on the Ocean Course at Hammock Beach was 72.256.

• The par-4 18th hole played as the most difficult Saturday (4.494), yielding just three birdies (Joe Ozaki, Ben Crenshaw, Scott Simpson). The par-5 10th hole played as the easiest (4.494), yielding 37 birdies and one eagle by the 77-player field.

• Through 36 holes, Bernhard Langer has made just one bogey. Tim Simpson leads in Greens in Regulation with 28 of 36 (77.78%). Ben Crenshaw leads in Fairways Hit with 24 of 28. Wayne Grady has averaged just 25 putts per round.

• Sunday's final round begins at 9:10 a.m. ET with 77 professionals going off both the #1 tee and #10 tee.