Dyson hangs on to top spot

England’s Simon Dyson and Thai Thongchai Jaidee hold the slenderest of leads after the second round of the Enjoy Jakarta HSBC Indonesia Open.

The pair are both 10 under par after carding four-under rounds of 68, one shot clear of Taiwan’s Wang Ter-chang, who was one of the overnight leaders, and a charging Stephen Dodd of Wales.

It was nip and tuck all day just behind Wang and Dodd, who will finish their second rounds early tomorrow after play was suspended due to bad light, two hours having been lost to a morning thunderstorm.

Despite the rain delay initially there was no stopping Jaidee, whose round was an entertaining blend of the sublime and the ridiculous.

Starting at six under on the back nine he made his usual lightning start with birdies at the first two holes before bogeying the 14th.

Two eagles and two bogeys followed in four holes before he then recorded his first four of the day at the third – he had had fives and threes to that point - following it up with one final birdie and a double bogey, dropping him from the sole lead at 12 under to level with Dyson.

Yorkshireman Dyson, who is used to the rain delays after spending a year on the Asian Tour in 2000, had three birdies in his first nine holes – spoiled only by a bogey at the 13th, his first dropped shot of the tournament.

Dyson had further birdies at the second and eighth to draw level with a faltering Jaidee.

Dodd was in far better touch today and his front nine featured three birdies and only one bogey.

But he will have been ruing the loss of light given the momentum he had built late in the day.

After the turn, the 39-year-old recorded four successive birdies to move swiftly up the leaderboard from his starting point at three under.

Wang’s round was slightly less spectacular but he did not drop a shot and his consistency was rewarded with five birdies through 14 holes.

Many players will feel they are in with a chance of victory given the compact nature of the leaderboard with four players – Irishman David Higgins, Swede Wilhelm Schauman, Australia’s Andrew Buckle and Indian Rahil Gangjee – tucked in at eight under.

Gangjee was out in the morning group and would have been level with Wang and Dodd at nine under after carding six birdies but he bogeyed the last.

Defending champion Thai Thaworn Wiratchant, who could not better par yesterday, shot five birdies in his truncated round to move to five under.

David Higgins is at eight under on the 12th hole. Damien McGrane finished for the day at four under with Peter Lawrie on the 15th at one under.