• Should Gil Morgan win on Sunday, he would become the oldest winner of this event since the start of the Champions Tour in 1980. Morgan would be 59 years, eight months and three days old. Hale Irwin holds the current mark at 58 years, 11 months and 28 days. He set the record at the 2004 Senior PGA Championship.

Jock Hutchison, a native of St. Andrews, Scotland, is the oldest Senior PGA champion. Hutchison captured the 1937 and 1947 Senior PGA Championships, the latter at age 62. He is followed by Pete Cooper, who was 61, when he won in 1976; and by Sam Snead, who was 60, when he dazzled the field with a record 20-under-par 268 performance for his sixth title in 1973

• Morgan has held sole possession of the third-round lead four times in his career and has won three of those, the last coming in 1998 when he claimed the Ford Senior Players Championship. He finished second in the other at the 1998 Senior Tour Championship. Four years ago, Morgan also was tied for the lead after 54 holes at the Senior Tour Championship at Gaillardia here in Oklahoma City, but finished second behind Tom Watson.

• In the past 11 years, four players have come from behind in the final round to win the Senior PGA Championship. They were Mike Reid (2005/two behind), John Jacobs (2003/two behind), Fuzzy Zoeller (2002/one behind) and Allen Doyle (1999/four behind).

• Double points will be awarded to all top-10 finishers at this event in the season-long Charles Schwab Cup race. Schwab Cup points are awarded throughout the year based on top-10 finishes and dollar amounts won in events are awarded on a per-thousand basis (i.e. $100,000 equals 100 Charles Schwab Cup points). Through the first 11 events, Loren Roberts leads with 1,075 points followed by Jay Haas (801), Brad Bryant (616), Tom Kite (504) and Morris Hatalsky (496).

• With wind gusts reaching 25-30 miles per hour on Saturday, only three players finished under par. Mike McCullough and Dick Mast fired 2-under-par 69s and D.A. Weibring finished with a 1-under-par 70. The field averaged 75.771 for the day, the highest average of the first three rounds.

• Five of the top seven players on the leaderboard are among the Champions Tour leaders for the best final-round scoring average. Third-round leader Gil Morgan ranks second overall with a 68.40 average followed by Peter Jacobsen (currently tied for third) with a 68.50 average. Brad Bryant, who trails Morgan by one stroke, ranks fourth in that category at 68.89 followed by Jay Haas (currently tied for fifth) at 69.00. Loren Roberts (tied for third) ranks seventh with a 69.25 average.

• The current leaderboard also includes three players who own seven of the 11 wins on the Champions Tour in 2006. Loren Roberts (tied for third) has won three times, while Brad Bryant (second) and Jay Haas (tied for fifth) have won two each.

• The biggest move on Saturday belonged to Mike McCullough, who jumped from a tie for 55th at the start to a tie for 14th (+41) following play. McCullough fashioned one of the three sub-par rounds on Saturday, a 2-under-par 69.

• Others making big moves were Fuzzy Zoeller (tied for 68th to tied for 29th/+39), Bruce Lietzke (tied for 55th to tied for 29th/+26) and Doug Tewell (tied for 44th to tied for 19th/+25). Eduardo Romero (tied for 35th to tied for 14th/+21, Vicente Fernandez (tied for 35th to tied for 14th/+21) and Leonard Thompson (tied for 55th to tied for 34th/+21).

• A win by Gil Morgan, a 23-time winner on the Champions Tour, would be his first in more than two years. His last win came at the 2004 SBC Classic, a streak of 57 starts.

• Darrell Kestner had one of the day’s best turnarounds. After shooting an 11-over-par 47 on the front nine, Kestner shot a 1-under-par 34 on the back nine, including successive birdies on Nos. 15-17. Kestner is a club professional from Glen Cove, N.Y.

• With Brad Bryant just one stroke back after 54 holes, and Tim Herron tied for the lead at the PGA TOUR’s FedEx St. Jude Classic, it could be a big day on Sunday for the former University of New Mexico golfers.

• Sam Torrance and Tommy Nakajima currently rank as the top international players, both tied for 11th.

Gil Morgan’s 54-hole statistics
Fairways Hit -- 33 of 42 (78.6%)
Greens in Regulation -- 41 of 54 (75.9%)
Putts Per Round -- 29.70
Driving Distance -- 280.8
Total Birdies -- 14
Par 3’s -- 1-under par
Par 4’s -- 2-under par
Par 5’s -- 3-under par