SAS Championship: Second-round notebook

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CARY, N.C. -- Bruce Fleisher finds himself alone atop the leaderboard at 10-under-par 134, one better than Tom Kite and Eduardo Romero after two rounds at the SAS Championship. The last time Fleisher was in sole possession of the lead heading into the final round was at the 2006 FedEx Kinko's Classic near Austin, where he held a one-stroke margin over David Edwards and Craig Stadler. His closing-round 74 led to a tie for sixth.

Mark McNulty's 63 matched his career low on the Champions Tour. (Keane/Getty Images)

• Fleisher's last Champions Tour win came at the 2004 Bruno's Memorial Classic. This is his 113th start since that victory.

• Mark McNulty's 9-under-par 63 matched his career low on the Champions Tour at the 2004 SBC Championship. His 63 on Saturday helped him vault from a tie for 40th on Friday to a tie for fourth heading into Sunday's final round. McNulty has been one of the hottest players on Tour in recent weeks with four top-10 finishes in his last five starts. Including this event, he is a combined 43 under par in that stretch with 15 sub-par rounds in 19 starts.

• Morris Hatalsky scored the first ace in tournament history when he made one from 157 yards on No. 8 with a 7-iron. It was also the first hole-in-one by Hatalsky on the Champions Tour. He had three previous hole-in-ones in competition.

• Bobby Wadkins withdrew after eight holes in Saturday's round with a back injury.

• In the seven-year history of the SAS Championship, four of the previous second-round-leaders/co-leaders have gone on to win the event (Bruce Lietzke in 2001, Craig Stadler in 2004, Tom Jenkins in 2006 and Mark Wiebe in 2007). Lietzke shared the lead with Jay Overton and Bobby Wadkins at 9-under-par 135 before a closing-round 66 gave him a three-stroke win.

• Stadler held a four-stroke margin over Jenkins in 2005 before winning by six strokes. In 2006, Jenkins led Chip Beck and Loren Roberts by one stroke after play Saturday and was declared the winner Sunday after the final round was canceled due to inclement weather. Wiebe held a one-stroke margin over Dick Mast and Dana Quigley in 2007.

• D.A. Weibring made the day's biggest move. The 2003 SAS Championship winner, Weibring had a 12-stroke swing from Friday's effort. After an opening-round 75, Weibring shot a 9-under-par 63 on Saturday allowing him to jump from a tie for 60th to a tie for ninth.

• Saturday's scoring average dropped from 72.641 to 70.078. After only nine players posted rounds in the 60s on Friday, 32 players posted rounds in the 60s on Saturday. That is the lowest second-round scoring average in tournament history. The previous low was 70.792 in 2001.

• Tom McKnight leads all players with 50 putts through two rounds (25.0), while Bruce Fleisher leads in fairways hit at 93.3% (28/30). Tom Purtzer is the leader in greens in regulation at 94.4 (34/36) and Brad Bryant in driving distance at 284.3.

• A total of 315 points in the season-long Charles Schwab Cup race will go to the winner of the SAS Championships. After the recent Greater Hickory Classic at Rock Barn, Jay Haas leads with 2,186 points followed by Bernhard Langer with 2,047. Fred Funk is in third place, with 1,917 points. Eduardo Romero is fourth, with 1,559 points and Scott Hoch is fifth, with 1,406 points.