KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) Shanshan Feng birdied four of her final six holes after a long lightning delay Saturday to top the Sime Darby LPGA Malaysia leaderboard when darkness suspended play.
The 27-year-old Chinese player had a one-stroke lead over fellow major champion Anna Nordqvist of Sweden. Feng was 7 under for the day and 13 under overall on the 18th tee when third-round play was stopped at TPC Kuala Lumpur. Nordqvist was on the par-5 16th.
Play was delayed for 4 hours, 39 minutes by the lightning and periods of heavy rain, leaving only 90 minutes of light left when the action resumed.
Feng won the 2014 tournament for the last of her four LPGA Tour titles. She bogeyed the par-4 11th before the delay, then reeled off birdies on par-5 12th, par-4 14th, par-3 15th and par-5 16th. She made a 20-foot eagle putt on the par-5 sixth in a front-nine 31.
Feng was third in the Olympics in August, the start of a string of five top-four finishes - the best a second behind Ha Na Jang three weeks ago in Taiwan.
Nordqvist has six LPGA Tour victories, successfully defending her ShopRite LPGA Classic title in June in New Jersey. She lost a playoff to Brittany Lang in the U.S. Women's Open in July at CordeValle.
Amy Yang was third at 11 under with three holes left.
