Carl Suneson & Ross Fisher top leaderboard

Spain's Carl Suneson produced the lowest round of the week in the St Omer Open on Saturday, a 65 that was only a stroke off the course record, to move into a share of the lead with Briton Ross Fisher.

Suneson collected seven birdies and failed to equal the record only by bogeying the short 17th. He reached a five-under-par 208 with Fisher, who battled back from a double-bogey on the 13th with three successive birdies to card a 68.

The leading pair were a stroke better than a group of five which includes the overnight leader James Heath of Britain.

Heath began the third round three strokes clear but slipped to a share of third place with two double-bogeys, one of them on 17, in his round of 73.

Two more Britons, James Hepworth and Iain Pyman, Australian Adam Groom and Swiss Raphael de Sousa were also a shot off the pace.

Suneson is fighting to get his full playing rights back after losing his card three years ago and he can do so with a maiden European Tour victory which earns a one-year exemption.

The 37-year-old who played amateur golf for England through his mother's nationality, who has a Swedish father but who has allied himself to his Canary Islands birthplace, is anxious to finish off the job.

"I seem to be getting up there but haven't been able to close the door," he said.

"But as long as I keep knocking I think I might have a good chance of doing it."

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