Thailand’s Sarit Suwannarut continued to impress at the US$1.5 million BNI Indonesian Masters presented by TNE today, moving to the top of the leaderboard on 15-under-par after 14 holes of his thrid round before lightning stopped play for the day.

Thailand’s Kosuke Hamamoto is two behind with three to play, while Northern Ireland’s Graeme McDowell is three back with two remaining along with India’s Veer Ahlawat, who had four holes left when play was stopped at 3.09pm.

Play will resume at 6.45am tomorrow for what promises to be a thrilling final day that will also see the Asian Tour Order of Merit (OOM) decided, as well as the International Series (OOM) and the top 30 qualifiers for next year’s Saudi International from the Asian Tour’s Merit list.

Sarit, chasing a maiden win on the Asian Tour, started the round sharing the lead with Mathiam Keyser from South Africa, and while Keyser fell back and is seven-under for the tournament through 14, Sarit went in the other direction shooting seven birdies and dropping three shots.

England’s Lee Westwood, a three-time winner of this event, made full use of moving day, posting his second successive 66 to reach 10-under-par and take the clubhouse lead.

Westwood, who triumphed in this event in 2011, 2012 and 2015, made five birdies including on the first three holes to go out in five-under. Having opened with a first round 74 the Englishman has rebounded brilliantly and blamed lack of play for his slow start.

“It was a combination of a lot of things, but I had four weeks off coming into this week and hit balls for about three hours," he said. So, you know, I went home did a lot of gym work but didn't really work on my golf game, so I felt really rusty.

"I've been struggling with a bit of a chest infection and not sleeping great with the jetlag, so didn't do as much practice over the Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday as I would have liked, and you know just felt rusty and out of sorts. I was four over through 16 but then birdied the last two holes to finish two over and then played well since,” added the 49-year-old.

Victory tomorrow would allow to add a missing item from his impressive portfolio: winning an event for the fourth time. “I will just keep playing like I played the last two days really; you know hit a lot of fairways,” he said.

Current Asian Tour Order of Merit leader Sihwan Kim from the United States is four-under playing his last hole with a whole host of permutations for tomorrow. Chinese-Taipei’s Chan Shih-chang, Thailand’s Jazz Janewattananond, Phachara Khongwatmai, and Sadom Kaewkanjana, Canada’s Richard T. Lee and Scott Vincent from Zimbabwe, are all in contention and need to win tomorrow to have a chance of toppling Kim.

Vincent, who leads the International Series OOM, gave himself an excellent chance winning that title and earning a golden ticket onto next year's LIV Golf League by firing a 67 to finish the day on eight under.

Malaysia's Nicholas Fung is two-under-par thorugh 16 holes and is in T43 place. Compatriots Ben Leong and Daeng Abdul Rahman had missed the halfway cut of one-under-par.

Leading Round 3 Scores
206 - Lee Westwood (ENG) 74-66-66.
208 - Scott Vincent (ZIM) 71-70-67, Eunshin Park (KOR) 69-72-67, Hongtaek Kim (KOR) 70-71-67.
209 - Ayoub Lguirati (MOR) 74-68-67, Gaganjeet Bhullar (IND) 69-70-70.
210 - Kevin Phelan (IRL) 70-72-68, Ben Jones (ENG) 70-70-70.
211 - Steve Lewton (ENG) 70-72-69, Scott Hend (AUS) 69-72-70, Yoseop Seo (KOR) 73-67-71, Kevin Akbar (INA) 69-71-71, Tirawat Kaewsiribandit (THA) 70-69-72.