Justin Rose remained the man to beat as he continued to take pole position at the weather-hit Indonesian Masters presented on Saturday.
The season-ending Asian Tour flagship event has been hit by multiple rain and lightning suspensions since round two. Lightning activities disrupted play at 2.05pm and with thunderstorms lashing out at the Royale Jakarta Golf Club, officials decided to call off the third round at 4.10pm.
Play will resume at 6.15am on Sunday morning with the fourth round scheduled to commence at 7.30am with players teeing off in the same groups.
Major champion Rose made his quick return to the starting tee after having to complete his second round early on Saturday morning. He raced ahead with two birdies in his opening three holes before extending his advantage with another birdie on five.
The Olympic gold medallist then parred his next three holes to stay ahead of the chasing pack at 16-under-par before play was suspended.
Zimbabwe’s Scott Vincent and Thailand’s Kiradech Aphibarnrat trail Rose by three shots at 13-under-par through eight holes while Phachara Khongwatmai of Thailand and Korea’s Gi-whan Kim are a further shot back at 12-under-par after eight holes.
Dylan Frittelli is -2 through 10 holes and remains nine shots out of the top ten – which would be enough to see him end the year inside the world’s top 50 and book a place in the Masters.
The in-form South African, who ran Rose close at the Turkish Airlines Open before finishing alongside Rose at the Race to Dubai’s season-finale, is working his way up the leaderboard after a nightmare 76 on Thursday. He was nine shots better on Friday and moved up 20 places to T44 midway through the third round.
