Electric Storm in contention

Hartlepool's Storm, playing just his second World Golf Championships event, was mixing it with the world's greatest players in the weather-plagued event at the Doral Resort's Blue Monster.

But he and the other contenders will have to return on Monday to finish the event due to a nearly three-hour weather delay.

Australian Ogilvy, who completed 60 holes this week (and 68 altogether stretching back to last week) without dropping a shot, finally had a bogey at the par-four seventh. Ogilvy started the final round with a four-shot lead, but after eight holes his cushion had been cut in half. He was 17 under, with American Jim Furyk in second place at 15 under after nine holes.

Storm, with two birdies in eight holes, was equal third at 14 under, along with Fiji's Vijay Singh and South African Retief Goosen. But Tiger Woods' seven-event winning streak was in serious danger as he fell five shots off the pace after nine holes.

Woods has endured a nightmare on the greens this week, and his mood was not helped by a photographer who snapped away a little early as the world number one hit his tee shot at the ninth. As if the weather delay which prevented most of the field from completing the third round on Saturday was not bad enough, it was a similar story on Sunday.

The final group had completed just two holes when threatening weather stopped play and though not a single drop of rain fell, the delay lasted nearly three hours before officials deemed the electrical activity was far enough away for competition to safely resume.

It was too late by then for the leaders to complete the round, although others were more fortunate. Storm's third round was a nine-under-par 63, the Englishman coming home in 29 strokes courtesy of an eagle and five birdies.