SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- We call him Calc.

But we could just as well call him Homie.

Mark Calcavecchia hasn’t met a hometown tournament he can’t win. More than once.

The Scottsdale resident won a couple of Honda Classics back when he was living over that way in West Palm Beach. Should have won a couple more too.

And now that he’s living in Phoenix? He’s got three wins at the Tournament Players Club at Scottsdale and, well, he’s working on a fourth.

How does 1989, 1992, 2001 and, maybe 2006 grab you? Okay. So it’s early. The half-way point. And he is six shots off the pace set by J.J. Henry and his second-round 61. But don’t count the 45-year-old out.

“There’s a long ways to go,’’ Calcavecchia said after his second consecutive 67. “J.J. played a great round today and I saw what he was doing out there. You know you’ve got to make birdies. It really doesn’t change your thinking any.

“I was kind of putzing around at 5 under there... You’ve got to keep the hammer down here.’’

Calcavecchia, who won the Bell Canadian Open last year to give him an even dozen PGA TOUR wins, got it going on the back with birdies at the 13th, 15th and 18th hole to shoot toward the top of the board.

So much for the theory that it’s hard to play at home.

“Maybe I actually focus a little bit better and concentrate a little harder,’’ he said. “It can be distracting with all the tickets you’ve got to get and distributing them and meeting people in certain places to do things. We had to wait up in the parking lot for a friend this morning for 10 minutes who drove here all night from L.A."

But, as always, he can laugh about it. Especially the pre-dawn drive.

“I don’t mind the drive,’’ he said of the 30-mile commute to the golf course. “Traffic is a little bit of a pain in the neck getting up here, no matter what time of the day, as I found out at 5:30 in the morning. What’s everybody doing up at 5:30 in the morning?’’

At least he can sleep in Saturday morning since he’ll be teeing off relatively late.

Calc has been on a roll since the Bell Canadian Open. He hadn’t won since the 2001 Phoenix Open when he pulled it off in Canada and he credits it, in part, to some tips from Peter Kostis at last year’s Memorial Tournament.

“I was really struggling,’’ he said. “And I made a slight setup change, and every single iron shot I hit, I think of that. And I feel like once I get in the right spot, then I can go ahead and just pull the trigger. That’s when you play good, is when you’ve got about one swing thought, maybe two. Like okay, setup good. Okay hit.’’

And, make putts. Calcavecchia’s still hitting it an off-target at times, but he’s a great putter when he gets on a roll. He had six birdies in a row at Augusta National one year on the way to a back-nine 29. He had six in a row one year in New Orleans, too.

At 45, Calc is one of the growing number of players playing their way toward the Champions Tour. But he admits it’s not always easy when you’re not winning.

“(The Canadian Open win) showed me as time goes by you kind of can get down on yourself, obviously, and if you’re not playing so well or one thing leads to another and you just kind of wonder, have I won my last tournament? And that sneaks into nearly every 45-year-old guy’s head out here, I would think.

“When I was younger, obviously, I didn’t think that way because I had a long ways to do. But as time goes on, it’s hard to win out here.. .. Thankfully, I’m a talented player and that pops out every now and then. It showed me even at 45, 46, 47, 48, whatever, if I’m still physically able to play decent, I can still get the job done any given four days.’’

And these four? Who knows? With the exception of a few holes -- like the fifth -- the course sets up for his game.

“Really, for the most part, the whole course really is visually appealing to me,’’ he said. “Now I’m confident. I know I can play well here.’’

And win. Maybe for the fourth time.