WORLD OF SPORT

GOLF: Justin Rose held a three-stroke lead after eight holes of the third round of the Indonesian Masters yesterday when play was suspended for the day due to bad weather.

Rose was three-under on the day and led his playing partners Kiradech Aphibarnrat and Scott Vincent. The Englishman (right) led both players by a stroke after the second round was completed in the morning due to weather delays on Friday.

Brandt Snedeker withdrew with apparent heat exhaustion on

SNOOKER: Cao Yupeng will play in his first ever ranking event final after a hard-fought 6-4 victory over Judd Trump at the Dafabet Scottish Open. Yupeng, who hit a stunning 147 on Tuesday opened the match with a great long-range pot and never really looked back. DARTS: Day three of the World Darts Championship saw two shocks as Benito van de Pas and Mervyn King were dumped out. World No 14 Van de Pas was beaten 3-1 by Steve West (right), who sealed the win with a 141 checkout. Zoran Lerchbacker beat King 3-2, while Robert Thornton beat Fermanagh’s Brendan Dolan 3-1.

SKIING: American Lindsey Vonn won the Super G at Val d’Isere to claim her first victory in a World Cup race for nearly a year. The four-times overall World Cup champion completed the course in one minute and 4.36 seconds and showed no signs of the back pain which troubled her in St Mortiz last week. It was the 78th World Cup race win of Vonn’s career but the first since the downhill at Garmisch in January. Meanwhile, Aksel Lund Svindal dominated the 50th anniversary edition of the Saslong Classic downhill, leading a 1-2 finish ahead of Norwegian teammate Kjetil Jansrud. It was Svindal’s second straight downhill win after a victory in Beaver Creek, Colorado, and the 34th victory overall.