Calcavecchia shot a five-under-par 67 at TPC Snoqualmie Ridge to take his total to seven under for the tournament after two rounds of the 54-hole event inWashington.
He's tied with three others at the top - Kenny Perry (68), Russ Cochran (71) and Jeff Sluman (70) - and the quartet are two shots clear of Bob Gilder, Chien Soon Lu and Chip Beck, who all shot 69s on the day.
Nick Price ofZimbabwelies three shots back on four under after a 69, while Bernhard Langer lies on three under after a second-round 73.
Presidents Cup captain Fred Couples, fresh off his Senior Players Championship victory in New York last week, shot a 69 to lie on two under.
Calcavecchia is a 13-time winner on the PGA Tour, but in 30 starts in two seasons on the Champions Tour he has yet to taste victory.
He started shakily on Saturday, bogeying the third before four staight pars, but then made his first birdie of the day at the par-five eighth.( PING G20 Irons)
It was his back nine, however, where he really came alive, rattling off birdies at 12, 14 and 17, before the eagle at the 18th.
"Pretty much my whole day was the last couple holes," he added. "Nothing was happening for me on the front but I was being careful."
Perry equalled Calcavecchia's eagle at 18, holing out from a bunker and making up for the double-bogey he suffered at the 14th when he overcooked his wedge approach shot and hit it over the back of the green.
"It's a 30-foot face bunker, green sloping away from you and it takes two hops and (like) Michael Jordan, just dunks."
Cochran, last month's Senior British Open champion when he triumphed by two strokes over Calcavecchia, started the day tied for the lead with Sluman, and looked set to retain sole possession of the lead before a bogey at 17 dropped him back to seven under.
"I have to play PING G20 Irons better tomorrow," Cochran said. "There's a couple guys out there who are used to winning that haven't won on the Champions Tour that are really going to go after it. If I don't go after it, I'm going to be left behind."
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Friday, December 30, 2011
Monty Is hoping for Dougherty revival
While Luke Donald leads this season's European Tour money list with more than £3.2million, Dougherty has yet to earn anything in prize money this year.
If the luckless 29-year-old - a three-time winner on the European Tour and one of the most exciting graduates ever to come out of the Nick Faldo grooming stable, but more recently a troubled man who has gone from 46th in the world three years ago to 773rd - misses the halfway cut on Friday evening it will be 21 in a row dating back to last November. (Callaway RAZR X Irons)
That number would be match Justin Rose's missed cuts at the start of his professional career before he finally earned his first cheque.
Dougherty held the joint 10th spot early in his second round in the Czech Open last week, but then, inexplicably, crashed to a 78 and made yet another red-faced early exit.
He has been a member of the last threeBritainandIrelandteams in the Seve Trophy and Montgomerie, who partnered him in the first of those, is as shocked as anyone by what has happened to the one-time prospective star.
"It's a great shame and we all feel for him - he's a lovely, lovely lad," said the eight-time European number one, who was out of the money only 15 times in all those years.
"You can only wish him well. I spoke to him at the airport and he was down, but I really do hope he makes the cut here and if there's anything that any of us can do for him then we should.
Dougherty, who partnered Donald in the 2001 Walker Cup and then became Europe's Rookie of the Year the following season, might well have been part of Faldo's team in Louisville but for the sudden death of his mother five months before the match.
He came back to win with Callaway RAZR X Irons inMunich a year later, but his Tour exemption from that runs out at the end of this season.
Dougherty, who married Sky Sports golf presenter Di Stewart on New Year's Eve, said: "I've reached the point where I can't remember how to play great golf any more and can't picture what it felt like when I was winning Callaway RAZR X Irons.
"It's been a long time and it's heart-breaking to me, but I will always fight through it because it's who I am - I don't know any other way.
"I don't like being beaten by anyone at anything. I don't mind getting a bit of a battering as long as in the end I can win the war."
The fight was still going on as he teed off at the 2014 Ryder Cup venue on Thursday.
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If the luckless 29-year-old - a three-time winner on the European Tour and one of the most exciting graduates ever to come out of the Nick Faldo grooming stable, but more recently a troubled man who has gone from 46th in the world three years ago to 773rd - misses the halfway cut on Friday evening it will be 21 in a row dating back to last November. (Callaway RAZR X Irons)
That number would be match Justin Rose's missed cuts at the start of his professional career before he finally earned his first cheque.
Dougherty held the joint 10th spot early in his second round in the Czech Open last week, but then, inexplicably, crashed to a 78 and made yet another red-faced early exit.
He has been a member of the last threeBritainandIrelandteams in the Seve Trophy and Montgomerie, who partnered him in the first of those, is as shocked as anyone by what has happened to the one-time prospective star.
"It's a great shame and we all feel for him - he's a lovely, lovely lad," said the eight-time European number one, who was out of the money only 15 times in all those years.
"You can only wish him well. I spoke to him at the airport and he was down, but I really do hope he makes the cut here and if there's anything that any of us can do for him then we should.
Dougherty, who partnered Donald in the 2001 Walker Cup and then became Europe's Rookie of the Year the following season, might well have been part of Faldo's team in Louisville but for the sudden death of his mother five months before the match.
He came back to win with Callaway RAZR X Irons inMunich a year later, but his Tour exemption from that runs out at the end of this season.
Dougherty, who married Sky Sports golf presenter Di Stewart on New Year's Eve, said: "I've reached the point where I can't remember how to play great golf any more and can't picture what it felt like when I was winning Callaway RAZR X Irons.
"It's been a long time and it's heart-breaking to me, but I will always fight through it because it's who I am - I don't know any other way.
"I don't like being beaten by anyone at anything. I don't mind getting a bit of a battering as long as in the end I can win the war."
The fight was still going on as he teed off at the 2014 Ryder Cup venue on Thursday.
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