• Loren Roberts is now a cumulative 37-under-par for his first five rounds on the Champions Tour in 2006 (40 birdies, one eagle, three bogeys, one double-bogey). He’s either led or shared the top spot in four of those five rounds. Since he recorded a 2-over 73 in the final round of last year’s U.S. Senior Open, Roberts has posted 19 consecutive scores of par or better on the Champions Tour and he has 14 straight sub-par rounds since shooting an even-par 72 in the opening round of last year’s Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach.

• Loren Roberts, last week’s MasterCard Championship at Hualalai winner, is bidding to become the first player since Larry Nelson in 2001 to win his first two starts of the season on the Champions Tour. Five years ago, Nelson won the MasterCard Championship and then claimed the Royal Caribbean Classic near Miami. Roberts is also shooting to become the fourth wire-to-wire winner in tournament history and the first at Turtle Bay. Bruce Fleisher was the last wire-to-wire champion in 1999 at Kaanapali on the island of Maui.

• Loren Roberts’ 36-hole score of 12-under 132 is the lowest two-day total since this event moved to Turtle Bay in 2001, surpassing Hale Irwin’s 36-hole score of 11-under 133 last year. Roberts also matched Jose Maria Canizares’ four-stroke lead in 2000 as the largest 36-hole margin in tournament history.

• Hale Irwin’s chances of winning an unprecedented sixth consecutive Turtle Bay Championship, and seventh title overall, went down the drain after he posted a 5–over 77 on Saturday, just his third round over par on the Palmer course in 14 played. Yesterday, Irwin opened with a 2-over 73 and is now at 6-over 150 through 36 holes. Including his pro-am round on Thursday, Irwin has not made a birdie in 54 holes this week at Turtle Bay. These are his highest back-to-back rounds since he shot 76-77 over the last two days of last year’s Senior PGA Championship.

• In the previous 18 Turtle Bay Championships, the player(s) leading or tied for the lead after two rounds has/have gone on to win 10 times, including six of the last nine years. Jose Maria Canizares, the 36-hole leader in 2000, is the only front-runner after play on Saturday who has finished worse than fourth in the event. Canizares finished tied for 11th in 2000 after posting a final-round 76. Bruce Summerhays, the 1997 second-round leader, finished tied for second, while Tom Kite, the 2003 leader, finished second to Irwin.

• The winner of Sunday’s event will earn a check for $225,000 and 225 Charles Schwab Cup points. With his victory last week, Loren Roberts grabbed the early lead in the season-long competition with 290 points. Last year, Tom Watson won his second Charles Schwab Cup, nipping Dana Quigley by claiming the season-ending Charles Schwab Cup Championship in Sonoma, CA. This year’s Schwab Cup winner will receive a $1 million annuity.

• R.W. Eaks’ 7-under 65 was not only the low round of the tournament thus far, but also equaled the 18-hole tournament record on the Palmer course. Eaks became the first player to shoot 65 in the second round. Jay Sigel (2001), Graham Marsh (2003) and Bruce Fleisher (2005) all shot their 7-under rounds on Sunday. The round was also Eaks’ best since he shot 65 on Saturday at the Bank of America Championship near Boston.

• Curtis Strange made the biggest move of the day, improving 39 places and eight shots from Friday. Strange’s round of 5-under 67 Saturday included five birdies and an eagle and vaulted him from a tie for 56th into a a tie for 17th.

• 63-year-old Isao Aoki, the 1983 Hawaiian Open champion on the PGA TOUR, posted his lowest round on the Champions Tour since last year’s 66 on Thursday at the Ford Senior Players Championship when he fired a 6-under score Saturday. Last year, the World Golf Hall of Famer from Japan played only 12 events on the Champions Tour and none after the Wal-Mart First Tee Open at Pebble Beach in early September. His best finish last year was a tie for 14th at the SBC Classic in mid-March.

• With lift, clean and place rules in effect for the second consecutive day and the same wind direction, Saturday’s scoring average on the Palmer course at Turtle Bay was slightly lower (72.833) than Friday (73.218). A total of 16 players had rounds in the 60s Saturday after just seven players in the field broke 70 on Friday. There were 25 rounds under par Saturday compared to 15 on Friday. The cumulative stroke average through two rounds this year is 73.026 compared to 71.923 last year.

• The most difficult hole on Saturday was the par-4 No. 10 with a scoring average of 4.346. The par-3 fourth hole was the second hardest (3.295). There were seven eagles made Saturday and Brad Bryant made the only one of a par-4, holing his second shot from the fairway at No. 2.

• Sunday’s final round gets under way at 7:55 a.m. (HST) with the last group going off at 12:30 p.m. (HST).