Two bogeys cost Ryder Cup star Sergio Garcia his share of the lead before heavy fog stopped play at the Taiheiyo Masters in Japan.
The Spaniard was in a three-way tie at the start of play but dropped a shot at the long third and the par-four ninth to turn in 38.
He had reached the 14th at seven under when play was abandoned for the day.
It left Japan's Makoto Inoue - four under for the day - in the outright lead on 11 under with two holes to play.
Garcia's Ryder Cup team-mate Darren Clarke's chances of a third successive win disappeared after he shot a 73 to close one over par.
Latest third round scores and totals in the Japanese Tour Mitsui Sumitomo VISA Taiheiyo Masters, Taiheiyo Golf Club, Shizuoka, Japan:
(Play Suspended due to darkness, 5 Groups to finish)
209 Mitsuhiro Tateyama 72 68 69
210 Kiyoshi Murota 70 73 67
212 Hidemasa Hoshino 73 69 70, Hirofumi Miyase 71 72 69, Hideki Kase 73 69 70, Craig Jones (Aus) 71 70 71, Kiyoshi Maita 72 68 72, Tsuyoshi Yoneyama 72 77 63
213 Masaya Tomida 71 72 70, Tatsuya Sato 72 70 71, Masashi Ozaki 76 67 70, Yusaku Miyazato 71 71 71, Yoshikazu Haku 70 74 69, Hideto Tanihara 75 67 71
214 Yoshiaki Mano 72 71 71, Kazuhiko Hosokawa 71 73 70, David Smail (Nzl) 75 70 69, Ryuji Imada 69 72 73, Takao Nogami 75 74 65, Takuya Taniguchi 75 66 73
215 Won Joon Lee (Aus) 75 73 67, Kaname Yokoo 73 69 73, Tetsuji Hiratsuka 76 69 70, Katsunori Kuwabara 69 73 73
216 Toshinori Muto 78 68 70, Steve Conran (Aus) 78 71 67, Tatsuhiko Ichihara 75 74 67
217 Katsumune Imai 73 72 72, Darren Clarke (NIrl) 75 69 73, Nobuhiro Masuda 75 71 71
218 Scott Laycock (Aus) 73 73 72, Greg Meyer (USA) 77 72 69, Shigeru Nonaka 72 73 73, Hiroyuki Fujita 74 72 72
219 Yoshinobu Tsukada 71 73 75, Wayne Perske (Aus) 71 74 74, Toshimitsu Izawa 74 71 74, Keng-chi Lin (Tai) 74 71 74
220 Chris Campbell (Aus) 71 78 71, Azuma Yano 75 72 73, Ik-Je Chang (Kor) 77 72 71, Tatsuhiko Takahashi 74 70 76
221 Hisayuki Sasaki 73 74 74, Dinesh Chand (Fij) 73 70 78
222 Koumei Oda 74 70 78, Brendan Jones (Aus) 74 72 76
223 Jong-duk Kim (Sin) 78 70 75, Yasuharu Imano 73 73 77, Dong-Hwan Lee 76 71 76
224 Takuya Saito 75 72 77, Yuki Ito 77 70 77
