Tom Pernice Jr. is 53 years old and has split his time between the PGA and Champions Tours over the past three years.

He played in 588 events, made 317 cuts and earned nearly $15 million in total earnings as a member of the PGA Tour for 25 years.

His only win on the Champions Tour came in his very first event in 2009 at the SAS Championship.  He missed earning his 2013 PGA Tour card by just a couple shots at Q-School last fall and has decided to play a full schedule on the Champions Tour. 

Pernice had three birdies and an eagle on the first nine holes. He added two birdies and a bogey on the back nine for a first round six-under par 66.

Bernhard Langer also posted a 66 in the fist round at The Old Course at Broken Sound in Boca Raton, Florida. He has been one of the best players on the Champions Tour over the past several years. He won the Charles Schwab Cup in 2010 and was runner-up to Tom Lehman last year.

Scott Simpson, Bart Bryant, Fred Funk, Corey Pavin, Robert Chapman and Rocco Mediate are just one shot back of the leaders.  Mediate is playing in his first event as a Champions Tour member.

John Cook, who won the first Champions Tour event in Hawaii in January, and 2012 Charles Schwab Cup winner, Tom Lehman are two shots back at 4-under par.

The second round of the Allianz Championship continues today at The Old Course at Broken Sound in Boca Raton and will air on the Golf Channel 6:30-9:00 PM ET.