Champions Tour victories: 1

The lowdown: An 11-time PGA Tour winner, Hoch's threat as a Champions Tour rookie last year was negated by a serious left-hand ailment. He has had numerous surgeries, including a major surgery a month before turning 50. He didn't make his Champions Tour debut until nearly a year after having torn tendons repaired. Hoch broke through to win the FedEx Kinko's Classic last summer and is looking to add his second Champions Tour title today.

In his words: "If [Jerry Pate] plays that way tomorrow, it may be tough to catch him. Luckily, we don't have Tiger [Woods] out here."

CHIP SHOTS

Birdie: The field hustled enough to get the second round completed before a thunderstorm rolled in, but just barely. Second-round leader Jerry Pate ducked with the media corps in the press tent when lightning cracked near the tent after the round.

Bogey: The Golf Channel may face a challenge televising the final round. The lightning that cracked near the media tent struck a Golf Channel tower.

By the numbers: Jerry Pate leads the field in greens in regulation (86 percent), is tied for 58th in fairways hit (15 of 28) and tied for 16th in putting (28.5 per round).

TEE TIMES

FIRST TEE

9:30 -- Fulton Allem, Boonchu Ruangkit, Bruce Fleisher; 9:40 -- Bernhard Langer, Curtis Strange, Tom McKnight; 9:50 -- Joe Ozaki, R.W. Eaks, Lonnie Nielsen; 10 -- Mark Wiebe, Mike Smith, Mitch Adcock; 10:10 -- Fuzzy Zoeller, Don Pooley, Phil Blackmar; 10:20 -- Des Smyth, Jeff Sluman, Donnie Hammond; 10:30 -- Allen Doyle, Tom Kite, Jay Haas; 10:40 -- Keith Fergus, Loren Roberts, Scott Simpson; 10:50 -- Brad Bryant, Gil Morgan, Tom Purtzer; 11 -- Ben Crenshaw, Tim Simpson, Hale Irwin; 11:10 -- Mark James, Eduardo Romero, Jim Thorpe; 11:20 -- John Cook, Mark McNulty, Bobby Wadkins; 11:30 -- Jerry Pate, Scott Hoch, Bruce Lietzke.

10TH TEE

9:30 -- Wayne Levi, John Jacobs, Dave Eichelberger; 9:40 -- Lanny Wadkins, Morris Hatalsky, Bruce Vaughn; 9:50 -- D.A. Weibring, Mike McCullough, Bob Gilder ; 10 -- John Harris, Tom Wargo, Dave Stockton; 10:10 -- Wayne Grady, Chip Beck, Tom Jenkins; 10:20 -- Bob Murphy, Andy Bean, Hugh Baiocchi; 10:30 -- David Edwards, David Eger, Jay Sigel; 10:40 -- Dana Quigley, Doug Johnson, Leonard Thompson; 10:50 -- Hubert Green, Vicente Fernandez, Mark Johnson; 11 -- Mike San Filippo, Dan Pohl, Bruce Summerhays; 11:10 -- Walter Hall, Gary Player, Nick Price; 11:20 -- Ed Dougherty, Denis Watson, Larry Nelson; 11:30 -- Jim Dent, J.C. Snead, Jim Colbert.